Clearwater Drops Rain-Shortened Game, 3-1
LAKELAND, Fla. - The Threshers dropped the lone, rain-soaked game of the series at Lakeland, 3-1 in five innings at Publix Field on Sunday afternoon.After rain forced the cancellation of game one of the series, Clearwater and Lakeland squeezed in less than five innings of baseball on Sunday before that
LAKELAND, Fla. - The Threshers dropped the lone, rain-soaked game of the series at Lakeland, 3-1 in five innings at Publix Field on Sunday afternoon.
After rain forced the cancellation of game one of the series, Clearwater and Lakeland squeezed in less than five innings of baseball on Sunday before that game was also halted, and the series finale was cancelled.
Clearwater (65-66, 27-34) now stands three games back of the Dunedin Blue Jays for the second playoff spot, pending the outcome of Dunedin's Sunday night game against Tampa. The Threshers have seven games remaining on the regular-season slate.
Following rainouts in each of the first two days of the series, weather delayed the start of Sunday's doubleheader for over an hour and a half before game one got underway at 1:35 p.m.
Lakeland (58-63, 28-27) grabbed the early advantage with an unearned run off
Hill stole second, and advanced to third on a passed ball. Sanchez (0-3) got Jake Robson to pop one up toward short that was lost in the sky and settled in for a single, scoring Hill to plate the game's first run.
Clearwater had a chance in the fourth after
Duran pulled a grounder toward short, but the ball kicked off the heel of
The Threshers again put the first two on in the fourth, after
Garcia greeted reliever
Lakeland quickly regained the advantage in the bottom half.
With the rain coming down, Hill walked and Robson drove a triple to the warning track in center to put the Flying Tigers back on top. Sanchez got
After a two-out walk to
The Threshers will head down to Port Charlotte to battle the Stone Crabs for three games, beginning on Monday at 6:35 p.m.