The Crushers rallied with three runs in the eighth inning, but host Evansville hung on for a 7-6 victory Aug. 30.<\/p>\n
In the eighth inning, Luis Acevedo hit an RBI single, and Jarrod Watkins drove in two runs with another hit, bringing Lake Erie within one run.<\/p>\n
The Crushers put a runner on second with two outs in the ninth inning, but the Otters got a groundout to end the game.<\/p>\n
Watkins finished with three hits, including a double, and one run scored.<\/p>\n
Nathan Archer (Keystone) hit a two-run home run, his second since joining the team earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The Crushers had 13 hits as a team.<\/p>\n
Starter Cobe Reeve gave up all seven runs, in 4 2\/3 innings. He struck out three and walked two.<\/p>\n
Lake Erie begins the final week of the season with three games at Windy City beginning Sept. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crushers rallied with three runs in the eighth inning, but host Evansville hung on for a 7-6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19154,136,138,137,726],"class_list":["post-275432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-crushers","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275432","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=275432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}