“Hopefully we get a few more put-away games, where we just flat out beat them, but these games are fun to win as well.”Įvan Hendricks started the game for Thunder Bay, lasting two-and-a-third innings, tagged for the first four runs of the morning, including a solo shot by Waterloo’s Michael Lippe on the eighth pitch he threw. “As long as we’re battling back and staying in the ballgame, and we’re not making as many errors anymore, and just winning games, we’ll take whatever we can get here,” Johnstone said. The only saving grace on the play was that Brayden Kuriger had plenty of time to tag up on the play, scoring Thunder Bay’s seventh run of the game, on the ball hit by catcher Easton Culp.
It capped a crazy finish that included an batter’s interference call that wiped out a run on an errant throw to third by Waterloo catcher Cortlan Castle, and a bizarre seventh-inning double play that saw Bucks centerfielder trap a low liner with the bases loaded, then complete a rare 8-6-5-4 double play, the Border Cats runners unaware the ball hadn’t been caught. “It was definitely worth it, especially in this doubleheader.” “That was the best hit-by-pitch of my career,” said Johnstone, who reached base in four of six plate appearances, driving in a pair. Logan Johnstone, who merely winced when Will Cassel’s high hard one bounced off his shoulder to score Trey Lewis from third with the game-winning run, said all that matters is the team walked away with the W in the first of two games the Cats and Waterloo Bucks will play on Tuesday. It was the fourth straight win for the streaking Border Cats (10-8), their sixth in their last eight outings. Playing in front of the largest regular-season crowd in franchise history, the 2,856 on hand at Port Arthur Stadium made up largely of local elementary school students, the Border Cats first battled back from a 4-0 deficit early in the contest to take a 6-4 lead, then after giving up three in the eighth, won it 9-8 an inning later on a pair of bases loaded hit-by-pitches. THUNDER BAY - One comeback a game apparently isn’t enough for the Thunder Bay Border Cats.
0 kommentar(er)
