'Wolves Fall in Opener to Sens
Erie started the scoring first with a three spot in the bottom of the third inning. Brandon Douglas and Nuiman Romero started things off with consecutive singles to put runners on the corners for Jordan Lennerton. Lennerton singled in Douglas for his 59th RBI of the year. Jordan and Romero would both move into scoring position on a passed ball to set the plate for Avisail Garcia.
The right fielder singled home Romero to bring the Erie lead to 2-0 with Lennerton moving to third. Rawley Bishop grounded into a double play that scored one more and Erie would end the inning ahead 3-0.
After that inning, the tides would completely turn for both teams. SeaWolf starter Kelvin De la Cruz struggled for the next two innings, allowing one run in the 5th and 6th. Sean Nicol and Sandy Leon would each single home runs to close the gap to 3-2 before De la Cruz was pulled in the 6th.
For Harrisburg, starter Paul Demny settled down after his rough third inning, and shut down the SeaWolves for the next five innings before being pulled after 8. Erie countered with Jared Gayhart who pitched 2 1/3 scoreless.
During the ninth and tenth innings, Erie showed their bullpen's fatigue after playing long games against Harrisburg and Akron this past week. Robbie Weinhardt gave up an opposite field homerun in the ninth to tie the game and Weinhardt left Tyler Stohr with two runners in scoring position and just one out in the tenth.
Stohr continued Erie's struggles by walking two consecutive batters and hitting another to bring in the go ahead run and an insurance run for the Senators making the game 5-3. Unfortunately for the SeaWolves, they could not capitalize with two runners on base as Bishop grounded out and James McCann struck out against Hector Nelo.
Erie continues their series with the Senators tomorrow with a 1:35 Sunday matinee.