The SeaWolves (40-44) rallied for a 12-9 comeback victory over the Binghamton Rumble Ponies (41-43) behind a huge night from Danny Woodrow.Faedo struggled starting in the first inning in his third AA start. The righty surrendered back-to-back doubles to John Mora and Josh Allen, allowing a run to score. After
The SeaWolves (40-44) rallied for a 12-9 comeback victory over the Binghamton Rumble Ponies (41-43) behind a huge night from Danny Woodrow.
Faedo struggled starting in the first inning in his third AA start. The righty surrendered back-to-back doubles to John Mora and Josh Allen, allowing a run to score. After two walks, Faedo gave up a sacrifice fly to center field from Patrick Mazeika, and Binghamton led 2-0 going into the second.
Sergio Alcántara banged in Cam Gibson in on a single to cut the Rumble Ponies' lead in half at 2-1 in the top of the third on Joe Cavallaro.
John Mora stayed hot on Faedo in the third inning, sending a solo shot over the right field wall in the home half of the third to make it 3-1 Binghamton.
Dominic Ficociello's two-run blast in the top of the fourth on Cavallaro tied the game up on the righty making his AA debut, knotting it up at 3-3.
Binghamton added a four-run fourth inning on the SeaWolves to snatch the lead right back. After Tim Tebow and Andrew Ely singled, Faedo surrendered a three-run bomb from Levi Michael gave the Rumble Ponies the 6-3 lead. Faedo managed to force an out, but Andrew Graham took the starter out of the game after he issued his fifth walk to Josh Allen. Sandy Baez made his first relief appearance of the season and hit both Kevin Taylor and Joey Terdoslavich with a pitch to load the bases. Mazeika nailed a sharp groundout to first to bring in Allen, scoring the fourth run for Binghamton in the inning to make it 7-3.
Erie began their long climb back in the fifth inning. Danny Woodrow cracked the first the pitch of the inning from Cavallaro off the scoreboard in right for his first professional home run. Daz Cameron drilled a triple to left two at-bats later, and Josh Lester invited him home on a single up the middle.
The SeaWolves made it a one-run game after the second home run of the season for Cam Gibson in the sixth inning. The lefty smacked the ball into left on Stephen Nogosek, and Erie trailed 7-6 into the bottom of the sixth inning.
The Ponies jumped back up by three in the bottom of the sixth on Caleb Thielbar. With two outs and two aboard, Jhoan Urena lined a ball off the body of Thielbar on the mound to bring in a run. Tebow returned to the dish and plated a Mazeika run on a single, and Erie trailed 9-6 after seven innings.
The SeaWolves fought to tie the game at 9-9 in the top of the seventh. Nogocek loaded the bases after two walks and a Will Maddox single, and then walked a run in after a patient plate appearance from Dominic Ficociello. Chad Sedio sent the ball deep to center on a sacrifice fly to score Maddox. Danny Woodrow kept up his hot night with an RBI single on the new pitcher Daniel Zamora, and the game was tied at 9-9.
Erie completed the long climb back in the ninth inning to take their first lead of the game. Jake Rogers doubled on Joe Zanghi, and Ficociello pushed him to third. After Sedio was hit by a pitch, Cam Gibson cracked a deep sac fly to right field that was enough to give Erie the 10-9 lead. Danny Woodrow then blasted an RBI double to bring home Sedio, followed by an Alcantara RBI single to give Erie the 12-9 lead in the ninth.
John Schreiber worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth, picking up his 10th save and sealed the win.
Ecker (4-5) earned the win for Erie after pitching two scoreless innings. Daniel Zamora went down with a blown save, and Joe Zanghi (0-1) received the loss after a three run ninth inning. Faedo struggled in the no-decision, laboring only 3.1 IP, allowing seven runs on six hits with five walks and only one strikeouts.
