SL1 Montgomery Biscuits

Wahoos Crumble Biscuits, 4-3 in 10

August 3, 2018 - Southern League (SL1)
Montgomery Biscuits News Release


PENSACOLA, Flo. - For the second time in the last 11 days the Biscuits (59-52) lost on a walk-off hit-by-pitch, this time to the Pensacola Blue Wahoos (59-50), 4-3 in 10 innings on Friday night at Blue Wahoos Stadium. The loss was the Biscuits' second-straight one-run defeat against the Wahoos.

Sam McWilliams got the start for the Montgomery and got some help from his offense in the first inning when Double-A debutante Jesus Sanchez ripped an RBI-double off the right field wall to score Jake Cronenworth, who led off the game with a double against Pensacola starter Vladimir Gutierrez.

Pensacola would battle back, as they did on three separate occasions Friday night, thanks to an RBI-single by former Tampa Bay Ray, Taylor Featherston in the third to knot things at one. After Sanchez singled with one out in the fourth, Dalton Kelly walked, and then Mike Brosseau poked an RBI-single up the middle to hand the lead back to the Biscuits at 2-1.

The score remained 2-1 until the seventh, when the Wahoos loaded the bases with one out. With Mike Broadway warming in the bullpen, McWilliams then hit Featherston to bring home the tying run, inadvertently foreshadowing the walk-off.

The Biscuits had a golden opportunity to not only take the lead, but to blow the game open in the eighth when a Nick Solak single and back-to-back walks issued by Alejandro Chacin to Nate Lowe and Sanchez brought Kelly to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out. But Kelly would ground into a 6-2-3 double play, and then Brosseau grounded out to short and the Biscuits came away with nothing to end the eighth.

The game eventually shifted to extras where Lowe grounded an RBI-single into right to put the Biscuits ahead once again at 3-2. But in the bottom of the 10

th, after a strikeout and a wild pitch from Yoel Espinal to Aristedes Aquino put runners at first and third, a Brosseau throwing error tied the game at three.

Shed Long was then put on first with an intentional pass to load the bases, and after a mound visit, Espinal's first pitch to Gavin LaValley hit the first baseman to bring home the winning run. The Biscuits lost in similar fashion in the series opener against Jacksonville on July 23, 7-6 in 10 innings, when Broadway plunked Rodrigo Vigil with the bases loaded on the first pitch of the at-bat.

The Biscuits will try to bounce back after a couple of tough losses to open the series on Saturday when Blake Bivens (NR) makes his Double-A debut against Tony Santillan (4-0) at 6:05 PM CT.

The Biscuits will return to Riverwalk Stadium to host the Birmingham Barons on August 8 when it will be Military Wednesday, featuring an F-35 Figurine Giveaway presented by AUM. The series also includes 'Rally in the Alley' Bar Crawl with a T-Shirt Giveaway on Thursday, August 9, Local Legends Night with MAX Fireworks on Friday, August 10, and Wrestling Night with MAX Fireworks on Saturday, August 11. The series concludes with Bark in the Park and Kids Day, featuring a Kids Baseball Giveaway, on Sunday, August 12.

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