Monsters Fall 4-3 At Hudson Valley Thursday
WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY --- In a rematch of the 2017 New York-Penn League championship series, the Hudson Valley Renegades broke a 3-3 tie with a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat the Vermont Lake Monsters 4-3 Thursday night at Dutchess Stadium.
WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY --- In a rematch of the 2017 New York-Penn League championship series, the Hudson Valley Renegades broke a 3-3 tie with a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat the Vermont Lake Monsters 4-3 Thursday night at Dutchess Stadium.
The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for Vermont, which had outscored its opponents 26-12 during the win streak dating back to an 11-1 opening-night loss at Tri-City.
Vermont's
Vermont got a run back in the second as Alfonso Rivas led off with a single and advanced to third on a
The Lake Monsters trailed 3-1 when they scored single runs in the fifth and sixth to tie game.
The Renegades got a leadoff single and double putting runners on second and third to start the bottom of the eighth. Vermont'ss
Jack Labosky (1-0) retired the Lake Monsters 1-2-3 in the ninth inning to earn the victory with 2 1/3 scoreless innings of relief, while Dodson was 2-for-3 with two runs for Hudson Valley (4-3). Vermont reliever
Squier went 3-for-4 on the night and is now hitting .500 (9-for-18) for the season, including 8-for-11 (.727) over his last three games. Arruda was 1-for-2 with two walks and a run scored for the Lake Monsters, who play at Hudson Valley again on Friday starting at 7:05 pm.
Paul Stanfield is the Media Relations Director for the Vermont Lake Monsters.