Volcanoes outlast Dust Devils
After jumping out to a two-run lead in the bottom of the first, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes never trailed in a 4-3 victory Friday night over the visiting Tri-City Dust Devils.
With the win, the Volcanoes (5-3) evened up their five-game series with the Dust Devils (4-4) after two games.
Will Headean got his second start of the season for Tri-City and struggled to keep the Volcano bats down, giving up three runs — two earned — on seven hits and striking out just one. It was a far cry from the five innings of two-hit, shutout ball he threw on Sunday in his 2016 Dust Devils debut.
Ryan Howard got Salem-Keizer rolling in the bottom of the first with a double to right that scored leadoff hitter Manuel Geraldo to put the Volcanoes on the board. Howard then scored on a ground ball out up the middle off the bat of John Riley to put Salem-Keiser up 2-0.
Tri-City’s Mark Zimmerman (0-1) was handed his first career loss after he gave up his first career run. Gustavo Cabrera made Zimmerman pay for a leadoff walk in the sixth as he laced a one-out triple to right to drive in what turned out to be the game-winning run, which gave the Volcanoes the 4-3 lead.
Luis Asuncion hit a two-run homer for the Dust Devils in the top of the sixth — the team’s first home run of the season — to tie the game at three.
Tri-City and Salem-Keizer will continue with the middle game of their series at 6:35 p.m. Saturday.
Volcanoes 4, Dust Devils 3
Tri-Cityab | r | h | bi | Salem-Keizerab | r | h | bi | ||
Easley 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Geraldo ss | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Burgos cf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Howard ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
B. White 3b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quinn rf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Overstrt 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kirby 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Baker ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Riley c | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mattison c | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Bowers c | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Asuncion rf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Angomas dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Magee lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | G. Cbrera lf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Savinon dh | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | J. Rdrigez cf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
K. Rivera 2b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Totals32 | 3 | 7 | 8 | Totals31 | 4 | 8 | 4 | ||
Tri-City | 000 | 012 | 000 | — | 3 |
Salem-Keizer | 200 | 011 | 00x | — | 4 |
E—Headean (1), Baker (1), Cabrera (1). DP—Tri-City 1, Salem-Keizer 1. LOB—Tri-City 7, Salem-Keizer 5. 2B—Easley (1), Savinon (1), Howard (1). 3B—Cabrera (1). HR—Asuncion (1). SAC—Burgos, Mattison.
Tri-City | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Headean | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Zimmerman L, 0-1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Lucchesi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Salem-Keizer | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Vizcaino | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Riggs W, 1-0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
Diaz H, 1 | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yanez H, 1 | 1 2/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Simpson S, 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
WP—Zimmerman. HBP—By Vizcaino (Mattison), by Headean (Kirby). Umpires—Home, Ben Phillips; First, Joe Gonzalez. T—2:28. A—2,643.
This story was originally published June 24, 2016 at 10:16 PM with the headline "Volcanoes outlast Dust Devils."