Yuma Win by Football Score, 14-10
July 3, 2008 - Golden Baseball League (GBL)
St. George RoadRunners News Release
Yuma Scores Two Touchdowns
YUMA - The two games Yuma has not won at home this year against the St. George RoadRunners have both come away from Desert Sun Stadium. Wednesday night proved that Yuma knows how to use their home field advantage. Scoring early and often, the Scorpions held on to a 14-10 decision over St. George.
RoadRunners starter Jason Lakman struggled to get outs against the high-powered Yuma offense. A.J. Valentine singled in two and Jose Rodriguez added an RBI double in the Scorpions' first inning.
Henry Calderon lined a three-run home run to left in the second.
The Scorpions plated five runs in the third. Pete Farina and Ryan Barba each had run-scoring singles, Rich Janeway doubled in one and Valentine cashed in two with a triple to the right-center gap.
Lakman (0-1) lasted only three innings allowing a franchise-record 11 earned runs on 11 hits.
St. George's offense tallied a single run in the second inning off Yuma starter Evan White when Liu Rodriguez singled in countryman Wiki Gonzalez.
After spotting the Scorpions a 10-run advantage, the RoadRunner bats got hot in the sixth. Claudio Arias homered over the wall in right on a 2-2 pitch to score two. Rodriguez supplied a RBI double plating Seth Loman to close out a three-run sixth inning.
Arias provided all the offense in the seventh with a massive three-run homer, his second of the game. Ryan Stevenson extended his current hitting streak to 15 games with a double earlier in the frame.
Stevenson knocked in two runs with a single in the eighth. Cody Nowlin doubled in Arias in the ninth after Claudio led off with a two-bagger.
The RoadRunner reliever core of Billy Simon and John Segovia held the Scorpions to three runs, two earned, over the final five innings.
White (4-1) gets the win although he allowed seven earned runs on 11 hits over 6.1 innings.
Yuma had 16 hits on the night led by Barba with three. Janeway, Calderon, Valentine, Maikel Jova and Jeremy Cleveland each had two. St. George collected 14 safeties led by Arias and Nowlin with three a piece.
The final game of the four-game set is Thursday night from Desert Sun Stadium. Southpaw Devin Collis (2-2, 6.44 ERA) gets the start for St. George. Yuma will counter with former big leaguer Mike Esposito (3-2, 7.57 ERA). First pitch is scheduled to be thrown at 7:05pm Pacific.
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