Wings out-last Bats in 18 innings
Ray Chang knocked in the final run in the bottom of the 18th, after three consecutive two-out singles. Dustin Martin scored the winning run.
15 innings was the longest previous game played at Frontier, actually happening twice against Pawtucket in 1997 and 2002.
The Bats jumped on Rochester starter Andy Baldwin in the first inning, using back-to-back-to-back doubles to open the game and take a 2-0 lead. Juan Francisco, who just joined Louisville Monday on a rehab assignment from the Reds, the third double. After a strike out, Jeremy Hermida, who entered the game hitting .429 against right-handed pitching, hit the fourth double of the inning, giving the Bats an early 3-0 lead. The inning ended on the eighth batter of the inning, with a 4-0 Bats' lead.
The Wings gained back two runs in the bottom of the second off Louisville starter Dontrelle Willis. Matt Brown started the inning off with a ground-rule double. Steve Singleton followed with a quick single, putting Brown on third. Chase Lambin then worked a walk to load the bases, and Martin knocked the first run in on a single. But the inning took a turn for the worse when Toby Gardenhire hit into a double play. Singleton scored on the play, but the Wings still missed a good opportunity to add on some runs.
The Red Wings had another great opportunity with the bases loaded and no one out in the bottom of the sixth. Steve Holm led off the inning with a single, and was quickly followed by a walk and single by Jeff Bailey and Brown, respectively. But back-to-back strikeouts of Singleton and Lambin made it look like Willis was going to get out of the inning, although a passed ball with Lambin at bat did score a run. But Martin came through with an RBI single, which led to an error by Bats' second baseman Kristopher Negron that scored the third run of the inning, and ended Willis's night. The inning ended with the Wings leading 5-4.
After the first inning, Baldwin settled down and did not allow another run. He pitched five and a third innings and gave up nine hits, with four strikeouts and no walks. Kyle Waldrop came in to relieve Baldwin and pitched into the eighth, when two singles put runners at first and third with one out. Phil Dumatriat replaced Waldrop and yielded a double to Yonder Alonso that allowed Louisville to re-take the lead, 6-5.
But the Wings bounced back once again to tie the game. In the bottom of the eighth, Brown hit a solo home run off Bats' reliever Carlos Fisher, making the game 6-6.
In the bottom of the ninth, the Wings had the chance to win the game in walk-off fashion, with Martin on second and an intentional walk of Brian Dinkelman with one out. But a strikeout and pop-up took the game into extra innings.
Neither bullpen relented over the next eight innings, and the game went to the 18th inning without any change. The Wings had a chance in the bottom of the 12th, when Dinkelman started the inning with a single. A sacrifice bunt and ground out got him to third, but he did not score.
Carlos Gutierrez worked the 13th, 14th and 15th innings. He worked out of a bases loaded situation in the 15th.
The game finally ended in the bottom of the 18th. With two outs, Martin hit a bloop single. Gardenhire and Dinkelman followed with consecutive infield singles. Then Chang ended the game with the fourth consecutive two-out single.
The game ended in five hours and five minutes, with 17 hits for each team. Chuck James, who came in in the top of the 18th, got the win, while Daniel Ray Herrera got the loss for Louisville.
NOTES: Dontrelle Willis had previously faced Rochester on May 2, 2008 when the Red Wings defeated Toledo 6-4 at Fifth Third Field. Willis took the loss, allowing two runs on four hits while striking out four in 4.2 innings of work. Former Red Wing Darnell McDonald had a big night for Rochester that night, going 3-for-4 with a home run (off Jeremy Johnson) and five RBI. |
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