After giving up eight runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Crushers responded with seven runs in the top of the ninth to beat host Mississippi, 13-10, in the finale of their six-game series June 28.<\/p>\n
Lake Erie held a 6-2 lead going into the bottom of the eighth. The Mud Monsters got to reliever Branden Noriega for four runs to tie the game, then they took the lead with a run off Dawson Hargrove. Neither recorded an out.<\/p>\n
The Crushers summoned third baseman Pavin Parks to the mound, and he gave up three more runs before getting out of the inning.<\/p>\n
Trailing, 10-6, the Crushers rallied with seven runs in the ninth. Garret Pike hit a two-run single, Sebastian Alexander drew a bases-loaded walk, Joe Redfield hit a sacrifice fly and Samuel Benjamin capped the rally with a three-run home run to retake the lead.<\/p>\n
Edwin Sanchez (4-1), who started the June 24 game against Mississippi, came out of the bullpen to work a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth and secure the win.<\/p>\n
Benjamin had four of Lake Erie\u2019s 14 hits and drove in five runs, giving him 27 RBI for the season. Redfield and Pike each drove in two runs.<\/p>\n
James Jett and Luis Acevedo each had two hits.<\/p>\n
The Crushers drew nine walks as a team and scored double-digit runs three times in the six-game series.<\/p>\n
Lake Erie (20-25) is off June 29. The Crushers begin a nine-game homestand June 30 when Joliet visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After giving up eight runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Crushers responded with seven runs…\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-231183","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\/231183","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=231183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231183\/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=231183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}