AirHogs hold off Wingnuts’ ninth inning comeback try
A ninth-inning rally came ended with the tying run at third base as the Wingnuts lost to Texas 6-5 on Wednesday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
The AirHogs led 6-3 heading to the bottom of the ninth. Texas closer Carlos Misell gave up a leadoff walk to Martin Medina. A one-out single by Richard Prigatano moved Medina to second, then Harrison Kain hit a double that scored Medina and sent Prigatano to third. A groundout by Leo Vargas scored Prigatano and moved Kain to third, but Christian Stringer grounded out to second for the final out.
Texas scored three in the first inning against Alex Boshers with four singles and an error by Zack Cox, then added run in the second.
Wichita got within 4-3 in the third inning before the AirHogs tacked on single runs in the fourth and seventh innings.
The series concludes Thursday night.
Texas | ab | r | h | bi | Wichita | ab | r | h | bi |
Hur cf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Stringer 2b | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Sanchez ss | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Cox 3b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Reynolds lf | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Clevlen dh | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rodriguez 1b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Mittlstt lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bistagne 2b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Medina c | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Gallagher dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Geiger 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Miller c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Prigatano rg | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lenahan rf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Kain cf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Byrd 3b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Vargas ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Totals | 37 | 6 | 12 | 5 | Totals | 33 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
Texas | 310 | 100 | 100 | — | 6 |
Wichita | 102 | 000 | 002 | — | 5 |
E— Stringer, Cox. LOB— Texas 8, Wichita 5. 2B— Hur, Reynolds, Lenahan, Medina, Kain. 3B — Kain. SB — Reynolds, Byrd. CS — Sanchez.
Texas | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Shepherd W,2-3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Oaks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Misell S,5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Boshers L,3-3 | 6 1/3 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Roman | 1 2/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Harvey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
WP — Shepherd. PB — Miller.
T— 2:37. A— 2,334.
This story was originally published June 29, 2016 at 10:09 PM with the headline "AirHogs hold off Wingnuts’ ninth inning comeback try."