Palacios Inside-The-Parker Not Enough In Loss To Jupiter
The Dunedin Blue Jays fell for the second straight night, losing in extras by a 5-4 score to the Jupiter Hammerheads on Tuesday evening at Dunedin Stadium. CF Joshua Palacios bounced back after seeing his 13-game hit streak end last night with a pair of hits including an inside-the-park home
The Dunedin Blue Jays fell for the second straight night, losing in extras by a 5-4 score to the Jupiter Hammerheads on Tuesday evening at Dunedin Stadium. CF Joshua Palacios bounced back after seeing his 13-game hit streak end last night with a pair of hits including an inside-the-park home run and three runs batted in, but it wasn't enough as Jupiter scored a pair of unearned runs in the tenth to hand Dunedin defeat.
Jupiter got on the scoreboard first in the second inning against RHP
The Blue Jays answered in the third inning to tie the game. C
The Blue Jays almost pulled off a near-unprecedented feat of back-to-back inside-the-parkers, as the following batter 2B
The triple extended Castillo's hitting streak at Dunedin Stadium to 14 games, the longest active home batting streak in the Florida State League. He'd go on to finish the night 1-4, maintaining his spot at the top of the Florida State League Batting Title chase with a .305 average.
After the two-run second inning, Diaz settled in and allowed just one hit over the next three frames.
In the sixth,
Lundquist drove a ground ball just inside the bag at first into the rightfield corner for a double to lead off the home half of the seventh inning. After a walk to RF
The score remained even at 3-3 until the tenth inning. Diaz exited after seven complete with a quality start and a line of 7.0 innings pitched, seven hits, three runs, no walks, and four strikeouts. RHP Jonny Cheshire tossed a one-two-three eighth inning, and RHP
McClelland returned to the mound in the tenth inning. With a pace-of-play courtesy runner on second, he walked the first batter. The next hitter tried to bunt but popped the ball back up and McClelland made an athletic catch near the first baseline to record the first out of the inning.
The Blue Jays came ever so close to escaping the jam unscathed. The following batter hit a hard ground ball to
McClelland walked the next hitter on a 3-2 pitch to force in another run, putting the Hammerheads up 5-3, before recording a pop up and a strikeout to end the inning.
Gudino opened the bottom of the tenth at second base as the pace-of-play runner and scored when Palacios promptly led off the inning with an RBI single to right. That would be all the Blue Jays would get in extras, as Castillo flew out, Palacios was caught attempting to steal, and SS
For Jupiter, Lillie put up a line almost identical to Diaz's, going 7.0 innings, allowing three runs on five hits, walking two, and striking out five.
The loss drops Dunedin's second half record to 30-22. With Clearwater on the verge of picking up another win tonight, Dunedin would fall 3.5 games out of first place in the North Division. Jupiter and Dunedin will continue their four-game series at Dunedin Stadium tomorrow evening at 6:30 PM with RHP