Plenty of offense, lacking defense leads to Dust Devils win
Defense was in short supply Saturday night in Boise as the Dust Devils and Hawks combined to commit 9 errors in a 10-6 Tri-City victory.
A night after the Dust Devils nine-hitter Wilfri De La Cruz hit a home run and double, Tri-City’s eightth-hitting left fielder Manny DeLeon went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs.
The Dust Devils (7-9, second half) used a four-run top of the second to get some breathing room from the Hawks (6-10), and then never looked back. A fielding error by shortstop Garrett Hampson opened the scoring in the frame, then Nate Easley drove in another run with a single through the right side. Chris Baker capped the inning with a two-RBI base hit that scored De La Cruz and Easley to give the Dust Devils an early 5-0 lead.
Boise tried to climb back into the game in the seventh against fresh reliever Diomar Lopez. Garrett Hampson hit a two-run triple, which was aided by a throwing error by right fielder Luis Asuncion, then Jacob Bosiokovich ripped a one-out double and was driven in on a shallow sacrifice fly by Wesley Jones. Nathan Foriest came in to relieve Lopez with two outs and two on, and got Anthony Brito to ground into a fielder’s choice to keep the Dust Devils up 8-6.
Will Headean (3-4) battled in spite lackluster defensive support to work through a six-inning start and pick up the win. Headean gave up five hits and allowed three runs — one was earned — while striking out six.
The Dust Devils will try to continue keeping pace with the Northwest League North division-leading Everett AquaSox (11-4) in the middle game of their five-game series against the Hawks at 6:15 p.m. Sunday. Hansel Rodriguez (RHP, 0-0, 3.00 ERA) is expected to make his second start in the Padres organization.
Dust Devils 10, Hawks 6
Tri-City ab | r | h | bi | Boise ab | r | h | bi | ||
Easley 2b | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Linkous cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White 3b | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Hampson ss | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Baker ss | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Bskvich 1b | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Young dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | W.Abreu dh | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Overstrt 2b | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | W.Jones 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Asuncion rf | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Stahel lf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Magee cf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -Toole lf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
DeLeon lf | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Brito 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
D.L.Cruz c | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Haynie c | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Suero cf | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||||
Totals 36 | 10 | 11 | 8 | Totals 36 | 6 | 10 | 5 | ||
Tri-City | 140 | 020 | 120 | — | 10 |
Boise | 010 | 002 | 300 | — | 6 |
E—Easley (11), Baker (14), Asuncion (4), Overstreet (4), Haynie 2 (4), Hampson (16), Abreu (5), Brito (13). LOB—Tri-City 4, Boise 11. 2B—De La Cruz (2), White (10), Suero (6), Hampson (11), Bosiokovich (17). 3B—Hampson (6). SF—DeLeon, Stahel. SB—Magee (3). CS—Baker (4), Suero (9).
Tri-City | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Headean W,3-4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
Di.Lopez | 2/3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Foriest H,2 | 1 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
J.Ruiz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Boise | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Tyler L,0-1 | 1 1/3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Gesell | 2/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cedotal | 2 2/3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Kenilvort | 2 1/3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Tahanopoulos | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
WP—Headean, Tyler 2, Kenilvort. HBP—By Thanopoulos (Magee). PO—Headen (Suero). Umpires—Home, Harrison Silverman; First, Randy Wilmes. T—3:21. A—4,336.
This story was originally published August 13, 2016 at 10:28 PM with the headline "Plenty of offense, lacking defense leads to Dust Devils win."