Mieses' Two Homer Game Leads Drillers to 9-4 Win
Springdale, AR - The Tulsa Drillers came into Saturday evening's game and looked to notch their third straight win and to get their record back to .500 against the first-place Northwest Arkansas Naturals. And they did just that with another strong pitching performance from Scott Barlow, while Johan Mieses crushing
Springdale, AR - The Tulsa Drillers came into Saturday evening's game and looked to notch their third straight win and to get their record back to .500 against the first-place Northwest Arkansas Naturals. And they did just that with another strong pitching performance from
The win brought the Drillers back to 17-17 and to within 1.5 games out of first place in the Texas League North Division.
Tulsa got the scoring started in the top of the second inning with a sharp line drive single by
In the bottom half of the second, Northwest Arkansas ended tying up the game with three straight singles out of
In the top of the fourth, Farmer got his sixth double of the year. Jose Fernandez plated him with an RBI line drive single to center bringing Tulsa back on top 3-2.
After pitching six scoreless innings against Springfield last week, Barlow picked up right where he left off. In his six innings of work on Saturday, he only surrendered two runs on three base hits while striking out eight and walking only one batter.
Mieses kept the scoring in the top half of the seventh, leading off the inning with his fifth home run of the season and his second of the game. This home run would be his fourth in the last three games. This brought the game to 4-2 in favor of the Drillers.
After a couple quick outs in the top of the eighth, the Drillers displayed a nice two-out rally. Farmer got it started with a single to center, his third hit of the game.
Northwest Arkansas made an attempt at a comeback in the bottom of the eighth.
The Drillers offense kept their foot on the gas in the top of the ninth.
Tulsa will look to make it four straight wins and the series sweep in the final game of the four-game set against Northwest Arkansas.