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Ziegler's HR Does in AirHogs Late Again

June 2, 2012 - American Association (AA)
Grand Prairie AirHogs News Release


WICHITA, Kan. -- C.J. Ziegler hit a two-out, 1-1 pitch from Griffin Bailey just over the leftfield wall to give the Wichita Wingnuts a 5-4, 10-inning win against the Grand Prairie AirHogs at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Saturday, the Wingnuts' 10th straight win.

The AirHogs (8-7) never trailed in the game until the last pitch, scoring in the first after Keanon Simon led off with a double off Derek Blacksher. A pair of groundouts by David Thomas and Trent Lockwood brought him in, but the Wingnuts (11-3) answered with an RBI single from Juan Richardson in the bottom half off Grand Prairie starter Josh Strawn.

Chavez put the AirHogs back in front with his first Grand Prairie longball, a two-run homer to right-center in the second inning. Wichita then scored single runs in the third and fifth to tie the game at 3-3, before Chavez helped give Grand Prairie another lead in the seventh. The AirHogs catcher doubled to start the inning, and a sacrifice bunt by Bridger Hunt and a single by Yasutsugu Nishimoto brought him in.

But the Wingnuts tied it with an unearned run against Derrick Miramontes in the bottom half, and both teams' bullpens shut it down from there, with Jakob Cunningham throwing a scoreless eighth with three strikeouts and Bailey (0-3) working a perfect ninth to force the first AirHogs' extra-inning game of the year. Nick Walters, Edgar Martinez and Matt Nevarez (2-0) allowed a single AirHogs baserunner in three shutout innings out of the Wichita pen, setting the stage for Ziegler's heroics.



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