Dust Devils can’t rally all the way
A big early deficit proved too much to overcome for the Tri-City Dust Devils in a 7-5 loss at the Spokane Indians in Northwest League baseball Wednesday night.
The Dust Devils (19-21) trailed by three runs after two innings and were down six after six frames. They finally got on the board in the seventh when Buddy Reed tripled in a run and came home on a wild pitch.
Spokane (21-19) got off to a big start on Travis Bolin’s three-run homer in the third. Stephen Lohr added a solo shot two innings later.
The Dust Devils finished their series at Spokane on Thursday before heading to Vancouver to start a three-game set.
Indians 7, Dust Devils 5
Tri-City ab | r | h | bi | Spokane ab | r | h | bi | ||
Kohlwey lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Perez 2b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Reed cf | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | Castillo ss | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Baker ss | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Terrero rf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Young 1b | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Turner 3b | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
White 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kwlczyk 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Easley 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | McDonld 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Redman c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lohr dh | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Mattison dh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Merrigan cf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Asuncion rf | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Bolin lf | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Totals 34 | 5 | 9 | 4 | Totals 33 | 7 | 10 | 7 | ||
Tri-City | 000 | 000 | 203 | — | 5 |
Spokane | 030 | 120 | 01x | — | 7 |
E—White 2 (5), McDonald (9), Turner (7). DP—Tri-City 1, Spokane 2. LOB—Tri-City 9, Spokane 7. 2B—Reed (2), Merrigan 2 (2). 3B—Reed (1). HR—Bolin (1), Lohr (2) SF—Turner. SB—Reed (7), Terrero (6). CS—Baker (2), White (2).
Tri-City | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Guerrero L,3-4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Ford | 2/3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Erb | 2 1/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Scholtens | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Spokane | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Lanphere W,3-3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Bruce | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Stubblefield | 1 /3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Fontenot S,2 | 2/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
WP—Ford, Erb, Lanphere, Bruce. Umpires—H, Andrew Barrett; F, Darius Ghani. T—3:19. A—4,998.
This story was originally published July 28, 2016 at 7:23 PM with the headline "Dust Devils can’t rally all the way."