Leading 7-2 going to the home half of the seventh and last inning, the Pirates gave up six runs and dropped an 8-7 decision to the Dodgers Thursday night at Shawnee.
After a scoreless first (Jose Cubero pitched around a lead-off single), the Pirates scored one in the top of the second. John Denney singled and was advanced to score on walks to Bobby Blair, Brent Bonte, and Chris Gregory. It should have been better as the Pirates failed to take advantage of several pitches in the dirt.
Jose again pitched around an error and a single in the bottom of the second; two singles and two errors in the bottom of the third; and a hit batter, error and single in the fourth. But the Pirates went scoreless in the third and fourth, too (Jose singled and Jackson Nave walked in the third, and Brent walked in the fourth. The score after four innings was the Pirates 1, the Dodgers 0.
The Pirates took a 6-0 lead in the fifth with Chris reaching on an error and steeling second and third; Brian Hooper and Charlie Gabriel walking; Juan Ortiz reaching on an error and Dustin Stover, John and Bobby singling. The Dodgers cut the lead to 6-2 A one out single and two out single and double scored two.
The Pirates added one in the sixth and retired the Dodgers in the bottom half. With one out, after a walk, Chris again stole second and third and scored on Brian’s RBI ground out. David Stierle walked stole second but was stranded there.
In the seventh, the Pirates wasted Jose’s single and stolen base. The home half started rountinly with a ground out to David at second (to Jackson at first). But a routine pop-up eluded David at second to put the first Dodger on. But a double and three singles (sandwiched around the Dodgers’ second out) made the score 7-5 and with runners on second and third wit two outs. A triple drove in both runs to tie the game and put the winning run on third. One batter later, a solid single to center ended the game giving the Dodgers an 8-7 win.
The lose ended the Pirates five game league win streak and dropped their record to 8-3. The Pirates meet the Thunder Sunday afternoon at 1:00 pm at Memorial.
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