The Crushers pulled within one run in the eighth inning, but Washington scored four times in the ninth to win, 8-3, on June 20 at ForeFront Field in Avon.<\/p>\n
Lake Erie (16-22) trailed, 4-0, entering the bottom of the eighth inning. Jarrod Watkins and Pavin Parks each drove in a run, and the Crushers also scored on a wild pitch to cut their deficit to 4-3.<\/p>\n
The Wild Things pushed back ahead in the ninth inning with four runs off Lake Erie reliever Christian Scafidi. The Crushers put one runner on base in the ninth, but did not threaten thereafter.<\/p>\n
The Crushers finished with seven hits, all singles. Joe Redfield had two hits. Lake Erie struck out nine times and did not draw a walk.<\/p>\n
The Crushers and Wild Things split the first two games of the series, which concludes at 1 p.m., June 21, in Avon. The Crushers then head to Mississippi for a six-game series that begins June 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crushers pulled within one run in the eighth inning, but Washington scored four times in the ninth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,726],"class_list":["post-224252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}