Goldeyes drop two of three to RailCats
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The Winnipeg Goldeyes (7-9) dropped their three-game series at home against the Gary SouthShore RailCats (4-11) 1-2 over the weekend at Blue Cross Park.
The Fish came up short in the first game of the series on Friday, losing 5-2.
The visitors opened the scoring in the top of the third inning and added on in the fourth, taking an early 2-0 lead.
The Goldeyes cut the lead in half in the bottom of the fifth when Ray-Patrick Didder brought Keshawn Lynch home. But Gary SouthShore would restore their two-run lead in the sixth.
The Fish would respond in the seventh when Matthew Warkentin brought home Ramon Bramasco, but the RailCats pulled away in the eighth, adding two more runs.
On Saturday, Winnipeg evened the series with a 3-2 win, jumping ahead early in the first inning when Warkentin drove home Bramasco on a double ground ball.
The RailCats punched back in the third, capturing a 2-1 lead. But the Fish would retake the lead in the fourth with Jacob Robson’s clutch base hit that brought home Tanner O’Tremba to tie the game.
In the fifth, Max Murphy’s single drove in Andy Armstrong’s game-winning run as the Goldeyes held on to the 3-2 lead.
However, Winnipeg would drop the series finale Sunday afternoon 7-3.
The two sides exchanged five scoreless innings with a strong start from Goldeyes starting pitcher Tasker Strobel, who only allowed two hits. But the RailCats took advantage of the pitching change in the sixth, putting three runs up at the top of the inning on the Fish’s Derrick Cherry.
The RailCats were able to put up a fourth run in the top of the seventh, this time on pitcher Ben Onyshko, before the Goldeyes punched back with three runs of their own in the bottom of the inning.
Armstrong brought home O’Tremba on a double before scoring on Jake Guenther’s two-run home run — the Fish eliminating the deficit to one run.
However, Gary SouthShore would put up three more runs in the top of the eighth to take the series.
The Goldeyes are back in action on a five-game road trip starting Wednesday, opening a two-game series against the Kane County Cougars in Geneva, Ill.
— staff