CHARLESTON, SC –Ray Kruml’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 11th capped a five-run comeback for Charleston, as the RiverDogs defeated the Savannah Sand Gnats, 7-6, in front of 5,273 fans in South Atlantic League action at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park Saturday night. With the victory, Charleston wins their second straight contest and moves to 19-24, while Savannah drops its second game in a row and sixth in the last seven in falling to 25-18.
Trailing 6-2 into the bottom of the ninth, the RiverDogs scored four times to knot the affair at 6-6. Hector Rabago knocked a one-out solo home run off reliever Michael Powers for his first of the year, cutting the deficit to 6-3. Ray Kruml followed with a single, moved to second on a groundout, and stayed put after a walk to J.R. Murphy.
With runners at first and second and two outs, Zoilo Almonte launched a three-run opposite-field home run on the very first pitch to tie the game at 6-6. The game remained square until the 11th, when Rabago reached on a bunt single. Emerson Landoni pinch-ran and reached second base on a passed ball, third base on a wild pitch, then scored on Kruml’s game-winner.
Powers (0-3) allowed a season-high five runs in 2.1 innings in absorbing the loss.
Savannah took a 2-0 lead against Charleston’s Jairo Heredia in the second, when Heredia balked Kai Gronauer home from third, and Pedro Zapata lined a RBI single with two down.
Murphy put Charleston on the board in the third with a two-out RBI single off of Sand Gnats starter Mark Cohoon for a 2-1 score. Kelvin Castro tied the game at 2-2 in the fourth with a two-out RBI bunt single.
In the top of the fifth, Savannah scored four unearned runs courtesy of three Charleston errors in assuming a 6-2 lead. Nick Santomauro grounded a RBI double inside the third-base bag for the only run-producing hit of the frame.
No comments:
Post a Comment