Weisenburger's Single in 11th Wins It for Stars

May 29, 2014 - Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release


Huntsville, AL-For the third straight night, the Huntsville Stars provided late inning magic as Wednesday night it was a different Stars player coming through in the clutch in the Stars 2-1 win over the Tennessee Smokies at Joe Daivs Stadium.

Adam Weisenburger came off the Stars bench to pinch hit in the bottom of the eleventh inning with runners at first and second base with two outs.

Weisenburger delivered a base hit back through the middle against Smokies reliever P.J. Francescon(5-4) scoring Shawn Zarraga from second base. Zarraga slid into home feet first as the Stars rushed Weisenburger between second and third after his game winning hit.

The Stars have won all three games in their series against the Smokies in walk-off fashion. Monday, Jason Rogers had an rbi double in the ninth, Tuesday Joey Paciorek drew a bases loaded walk in the tenth and Wednesday Weisenburger was the latest Stars player to pull off a dramatic victory.

The Stars took a 1-0 lead in the fifth on a bunt rbi single by Josh Prince, scoring Zarraga.

The Smokies responded with a run of their own in their next at bat in the top of the sixth. With two outs, Huntsville starter Brent Suter gave up a solo homerun to Kris Bryant. It was Bryant's Southern League best fifteenth homerun of the season and it tied the game at 1-1.

Suter took a no decision after seven innings of allowing four hits He struck out six and walked two.

The Stars received excellent bullpen work from Tim Dillard, Arcenio Leon and Tommy Toledo. The trio combined for four scoreless innings.

Toledo(2-0) earned the win out of the Stars bullpen as he threw a scoreless tenth and eleventh inning. He struck out two Smokies.

Nick Shaw led the Stars with three hits.

The Stars are now a season high ninteen games above the .500 mark with a 36-17 record. They've also increased their lead on the Tennessee Smokies(26-26) by 9.5 games for first place with seventeen games to play before the first half of the year ends.

The Stars lead the Smokies 3-0 in their five game series. Thursday night will be game four. Huntsville will send RHP Jacob Barnes(1-2, 6.26) to the hill. Tennessee will have RHP Joe Gardner (0-, 1.69) on the mound. Thursday's game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 6:15 PM CDT on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM and wtkiradio.com.



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