Cabral Homers, Collects Three Hits in Loss
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Edgar Cabral and Jose Pujols both tallied their second home runs of the season to give the Threshers an early lead against Jupiter on Monday night, but Jupiter rallied back to take the series opener, 9-4.In the top of the first, Threshers starter Bailey Falter worked his
CLEARWATER, Fla. -
In the top of the first, Threshers starter
A lead-off walk followed by a stolen base and a passed ball put
Both Cabral and Jose Pujols hit their second home runs of the season to take the early lead in the second inning.
Cabral hit a solo shot into the left field bullpen to get the Threshers (1-4) on the board, and two batters later, Jose Pujols solo longball would put the Threshers up 2-0. The two home runs in Monday night's game bring the Threshers' total to eight in five games.
The Hammerheads (3-2) would make their comeback in the fourth inning.
Dunand had a hard-hit double into left-center field and Stone Garret reached on a single to the leftfield corner. Garrett then stole second to put two men in scoring position with no outs.
A pop out to third resulted in the first out of the inning, but Skylar Ewing drew an eight-pitch walk against Falter that loaded the bases.
Jarrett Rindfleisch was hit by a pitch to bring a run home, and a wild pitch from reliever
The fifth inning saw four more Hammerheads cross the plate.
A leadoff walk by Bird and a single to right by
A groundball to the left side popped up on shortstop
In the sixth, Cabral would record his third hit of the night.
Cabral hit a single into right field past the second baseman Mahan to send Williams and Listi across the plate.
Reliever
Dunand sent a single to left field, and a wild pitch and ground out put him at third. Mahan would draw a base on balls to put two on with one out. Ewing flew out to out to second and
Quinn pitched two scoreless innings, giving up one hit and one walk.
The final runs would come in the top of the ninth.
Dunand sent a solo homerun over the left field fence off
The Threshers and Hammerheads are back at Spectrum field on Tuesday night, for Dollar Tuesday presented by Regions Bank with a 7:00 p.m. first pitch. Kirsten Karbach will be on the call starting at 6:45 p.m. on the Threshers Broadcast Network.
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