Carolina takes back-and-fourth, rain soaked battle in ten innings
Lynchburg, Va. - In a game that featured four ties and five lead changes, a Hillcats error in extra innings proved to be the difference, as the Mudcats won, 6-5, in ten innings on Sunday.
Lynchburg, Va. - In a game that featured four ties and five lead changes, a Hillcats error in extra innings proved to be the difference, as the Mudcats won, 6-5, in ten innings on Sunday.
Lynchburg (46-52, 17-14) falls to just 1-7 in extra-inning contests, and now have lost extra-inning affairs two of the last three nights, as Carolina (50-49, 16-13) evens the series, forcing a rubber game Monday.
Lynchburg took a 1-0 lead in the second inning.
After the game started 48 minutes behind schedule due to rain, the game went into another rain delay in the bottom of the third which lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes.
The game went back and forth in the middle innings. In the fourth, the Mudcats plated a run in the top half of the inning on an Aguilar RBI single. The Hillcats got the lead right back in the bottom half of the frame when Ernie Clement singled to right-center. The shortstop had a three-hit ballgame, his 11th multi-hit game in 28 games overall.
The fifth inning featured more of the same. Carolina walked in a run on a free pass to
The trend continued in the sixth. Dallas Carrol tied the game at 3-3 in the top half of the inning with a single to left-center, before the Hillcats regained the lead during with a Mitch Longo RBI single to center to make it 4-3 Lynchburg.
The Mudcats evened the ballgame for the final time in the seventh inning on an Aguilar single through the right side to plate Hummel.
Neither starter went deep into the ballgame.
The rubber game of the series is set for Monday at 6:30 p.m. with lefty Tanner Tully (3-9, 4.76) getting the start for Lynchburg, opposed by right-hander
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