Spirit strike back

June 22, 2005 - Canadian American League (Can-Am)
North Shore Spirit News Release


Thanks to a five run eighth inning rally, the North Shore Spirit knocked off the Brockton Rox 6-5 Wednesday night to end a four game losing skid.

Greg Pleeter (1-0) got the win in relief for the Spirit. Ryan McCally survived a leadoff single in the ninth to pick up his third save of the season.

Brockton started quickly; scoring two unearned runs in the first. Errors by Eric Storey and Marcos Agramonte allowed the Rox to push across a pair despite not hitting a ball out of the infield.

North Shore was handed a gift run of their own in the second inning. With one out, Brian Macchi reached on an error by Craig Lewis. Two batters later, after an Alex Trezza double, Storey drove home Macchi with a groundout to second.

Morse's defense let him down again in the fifth. Two more Spirit errors and an RBI single by Lewis allowed Brockton to extended their lead to 4-1.

The Rox would tack on another run in the seventh. After back-to-back singles by Eugene Julien and Saul Bustos, Lewis put Brockton up by four with a sacrifice fly to left.

In the bottom of the eighth, the comeback began. The Spirit loaded the bases with no outs on a walk to Macchi and singles by Travis Oglesby and Trezza. Following a Storey strikeout, pinch hitter Garrett Weir drove a single through the left side, plating Oglesby with North Shore's second run. Yuri Sanchez kept the rally going with an RBI basehit that cut the deficit to 5-3. Marcos Agramonte pulled the Spirit to within one with an RBI groundout to second. With two down and runners on second and third, Rob Fischer played the hero role. Fischer laced a single to center, scoring Weir and Sanchez with the game-winning runs.

The Spirit will finish this home series with Brockton, Friday, June 23 at 7:05PM.



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