Bees Unlucky in 13th
The Bees got their first two runs thanks to Wizards errors caused by the speed of Jarrod Dyson. In the fifth inning, O.D. Gonzalez reached on a one-out double and Alvi Morel drew a two-out walk to get Dyson to the plate. Dyson hit a slow chopper to the right side. King had no chance to get Dyson at first, but threw anyway and ended up flipping it into the dugout to let Everett score from second for a 1-0 Bees' lead. The first run came against starter Nathan Culp, who allowed just the one unearned run through six. The Bees scored another unearned run on a similar play against Grant Varnell in the seventh. With two outs and Jeremy Jirschele at second base, Dyson hit a dribbler out in front of the plate. Wizards' catcher Brian Hernandez' throw down to first was into the runner and went off of Jeremy Hunt's glove and rolled away far enough for Jirschele to score.
Bees' starter Matt Campbell was sharp on the mound again tonight. Campbell worked 5.2 shutout innings and came out after a two-out walk to Hunt in the sixth. Mario Santiago came in to finish the inning and pitched a scoreless seventh before the Wizards got on the board in the eighth. Tom King led off with a double, Cedric Hunter was hit by a pitch, and Hunt singled to load the bases with no outs. Santiago limited the Wizards to just one run though on a sacrifice fly by Kyler Burke to keep the Bees up 2-1. The Wizards got even against him in the ninth. Javis Diaz was at first with one out when King doubled high off the wall in left to bring him in with the tying run. The Wizards loaded the bases again before Santiago got Burke to bounce out to end the inning and force extra frames.
Santiago was charged with a blown save and did work one more inning to get the Bees through the tenth. Tyler Chambliss took over and pitched two scoreless innings and struck out five. He stranded three men on base in his two innings. RJ Rodriguez and Rolando Valdez each pitched two scoreless innings in relief and Brooks Dunn stranded a man in the top of the 13th out of the Wizards bullpen. Chris Hayes (0-1) took over in the bottom of the 13th for the Bees and after getting the first out, gave up a double to King and an intentional walk to Hunter, before Hunt delivered the game-winning hit on a broken bat flair to left.
The Bees continue this road trip with the first of four games against the Dayton Dragons at Fifth Third Field tomorrow night. Harold Mozingo (1-1, 1.64) will start for the Bees against RH Jordan Smith (1-0, 1.80) of the Dragons. The game will start at 6:00 Central time and will be broadcast live on KBUR AM 1490 and KBKB AM 1360 with the pre-game show starting at 5:40.