Howard delivers walk-off winner for Salem-Keizer
Ryan Howard was the hero for Salem-Keizer as he hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth Sunday night to give the host Salem-Keizer Volcanoes the 4-3 win over the Tri-City Dust Devils.
Howard drove in Gustavo Cabrera with a one-out ground ball up the middle. Cabrera paced the Volcanoes’ (6-4) bats all game, going 4-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored.
The Dust Devils (5-5) led 2-0 in the middle of the fifth, but Howard quickly tied it back up in the bottom of the frame with a two-run double.
Trailing 3-2 in the eighth, Chris Baker gave Tri-City life as he ripped an RBI single to left to tie it back up.
Tri-City and Salem-Keizer play the rubber match of their five-game set at 6:35 p.m. Monday. Emmanuel Ramirez (0-0) will toe the rubber for the Dust Devils and Salem-Keizer will give Victor Concepcion (1-1) the start.
Volcanoes 4,
Dust Devils 3
Tri-City ab | r | h | bi | SK ab | r | h | bi | ||
Easley 2b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Geraldo 3b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Magee cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Howard ss | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
B.White 3b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Rohas dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Overstreet 1b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kirby 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Baker ss | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Bowers c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
M.Smith lf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Angomas rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
-Burgos pr | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Fulmer cf | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Asuncion rf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | G. Cbrera lf | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Redman c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | K. Rivera 2b | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Mgdlno dh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals 32 | 3 | 7 | 3 | Totals 34 | 4 | 12 | 4 | ||
Tri-City | 010 | 010 | 010 | — | 3 |
Salem-Keizer | 000 | 020 | 101 | — | 4 |
E—Redman (1). DP—Tri-City 1, Salem-Keizer 1. LOB—Tri-City 13, Salem-Keizer 9. 2B—Cabrera 2 (2), Howard (2). SAC—K. Rivera SF—Geraldo. SB— White (1), Angomas (2), Fulmer (3). CS—Redman (1).
Tri-City | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Lorenzini | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
D.Lopez | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Scholtens L, 0-1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Salem-Keizer | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Adon L, 0-1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
Pope | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Sabo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Hernandez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
WP—Adon 2. HBP—By Pope (White), By Sabo (Magee). Umpires—Home, Ben Phillips; First, Joe Gonzalez. T—2:42. A—2,173.
This story was originally published June 26, 2016 at 9:11 PM with the headline "Howard delivers walk-off winner for Salem-Keizer."