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Stephens' Walk-Off Bomb Gives Wild Things Sweep of Evansville

July 1, 2010 - Frontier League (FL)
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Washington, Pa. - Eric Stephens was 0-for-3 when he stepped to the plate with a man on first and no outs in the bottom of the ninth and his team down by one. In his third game as a Wild Thing, Stephens turned on a 1-0 pitch from Nick Sottung and sent it into the night sky over the right field wall, giving the Washington Wild Things, presented by Washington Financial, a 4-3 come-from-behind victory and completing a three-game sweep of the Evansville Otters.

Stephens helped bail out a shaky outing from reliever Justin Edwards, who squandered a 2-0 Washington lead when he allowed three runs on three hits and two walks in the eighth. Brandon Cohen singled in Billy Killian for the Otters' first run. Then, with the bases loaded, Greg Alexander singled through the left side past a diving Denny Duron at shortstop, chasing home Patrick Rose and Cohen for the 3-2 lead.

The Wild Things got their two runs early in the game with Chris Sidick getting involved in each run. With two outs in the third, following a Sidick double and a Michael Parker walk, John Delaney singled a chopper up the middle that plated Sidick and put the Wild Things up, 1-0.

Sidick got the second of his two hits on the day when he hit his second home run of the series to right field, his fourth of the season, to put the Wild Things up, 2-0 in the fifth inning.

In the sixth, while the Wild Things still clung to a 2-0 lead, Jeff Sonnenberg allowed two straight singles to lead off the inning. After striking out the next batter, Sonnenberg induced an inning-ending double play off the bat of Derek Wiley, as Delaney stuck with a bad hop to his glove side.

Starting pitcher Jeff Sonnenberg had his best outing of the year for the Wild Things, going 6.2 scoreless innings while striking out a season-high 11 batters, nearly tripling his previous high of four. Ben Rodewald got the win in relief of Edwards, needing just three pitches to do so as he got Brandon Cohen to fly out to centerfield to end the top of the ninth inning.

The game-winning home run was the second homer allowed by Sottung this season. He is now 2-1 on the season. Rose, Cohen and Alexander all had multi-hit games for the Otters. Starter Chris Peters tossed six innings, struck out eight and allowed just the two runs.

The Wild Things improve to 16-23 on the season and are now 4-2 in their last six games. Evansville drops to 14-25 and remains in last place in the Frontier League's West Division.

The Wild Things will welcome the Florence Freedom to CONSOL Energy Park for the first time in the 2010 season, opening up a three-game series Friday evening. Game time is 7:05 p.m. on a "Fireworks Friday" night. Pre-game coverage begins at 6:55 p.m. on WJPA 95.3 FM.

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