Spikes Salvage Series with Scrappers
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Updated: July 18, 2012
State College (15-15) trailed, 6-5, entering the eighth inning, but plated three runs in the frame to take the win. Yhonathan Barrios led off the frame with a ground-rule double, and after a single by Carvajal, scored on Rodarrick Jones's RBI groundout to tie the game. Alex Fuselier then singled and Barrett Barnes followed with a double to score two more runs and give the Spikes a lead they would not relinquish.
Mahoning Valley (15-15) took the initial lead in the back-and-forth game when Joey Wendle homered to right-center field off of Spikes starter Luis Heredia in the first inning to make it 1-0. State College responded with a pair of runs in the second inning when Jared Lakind produced a sacrifice fly and Carvajal singled in another run.
The Scrappers would go on to tie the game in the bottom half of the second when Hunter Jones knocked in Jeremy Lucas with an RBI single. In the fourth, though, State College regained the lead on Carvajal's sacrifice fly. The Spikes then extended their lead when Stallings drove in two runs with a single in the fifth, making the score 5-2.
However, Mahoning Valley scratched a run across in the fifth inning to draw within two, then delivered three runs in the sixth on Erik Gonzalez's two-run double, an error and a single by Jones to set up the Spikes' comeback in the eighth.
Barnes joined Stallings and Carvajal with multiple hits and added two stolen bases as well to bump his season total to a team-leading nine.
from State College Spikes reports:
