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Lou Pinella League NL Scores

June 26, 2017 at 09:32PM View BBCode

Colorado edged St Louis 5-4 in 10 innings to take game two of their series in extra innings giving the Mockingbirds their fourth straight win and seven wins in their last ten games.

The Colorado bullpen has excelled over that span allowing one earned run on just nine hits in 20 innings for a 0.45 ERA and has picked up three wins and four saves.

Second place Los Angeles has won three straight and third place Montreal has won two straight tightening up the entire first division.

Brooklyn grabbed its six straight win, the longest winning streak currently in the league by handing Atlanta a 6-5 loss, Atlanta's third consecutive loss dropping the fifth place Braves ten games behind St. Louis.

Lance Holbert, removed from his closer's role has won both games of this series in St Louis to improve to 3-4 on the season.

The extra inning win made Colorado 3-1 in extra innings this season.

Colorado had five runs on nine hits in the game.

A lead off walk to Frank Jestadt in the 3rd inning by Left hander Chuck Darrow allowed the Mockingbirds to tie the game 1-1. Rookie catcher Nick Chamberlain singled off the glove of third baseman Jose Serum putting two runners on with no one out. Pitcher Bob Horton put down a successful sacrifice bunt advancing Jestadt aand Chamberlain to second and third. Phil Wise's ground out got the run (Jestadt) in.

St. Louis came right back in the 4th inning to take a 3-1 lead getting to starter Bob Horton for four hits and three runs.
Singles by Scott Cooper, Hal Salverson, Red Delhi and Jose Serum accounted for two runs and a the last run came in when Darrow hit into a double play.

Dennis Leheny took over for Horton and pitched 2.1 scoreless innings from the fifth to the seventh innings.

Danny Mueller's solo homer in the seventh made the score 4-2.

Pinch hitter Darren Ratliff doubled past first baseman Jack Jones in the eighth, went over to third on a ground out by Phil Wise, and scored on a two out single by Tony Shwinieke to tighten the score to 4-3 after eight innings.

Kettle Berra took care of things in the eighth inning for Colorado.

Closer Jeff Templeton took over for St. Louis in the ninth but it was not the All Star closer's beast day.

Templeton got the first two batters out then gave up a single and a stolen base to Harold Parent and a game tying single to pinch hitter Julio Bolton tie the game 4-34 and send it into extra innings.

In the tenth Colorado got to veteran Harry Grieve. Grieve walked Shwinieke with one out and allowed a single to Smalley putting runners on first and third.

Al Brown made a great play and throw robbing Mueller of another hit but Shwinieke scored on the out putting Colorado ahead 5-4 and Jesus Wagner picked up his fifth consecutive save in the bottom of the tenth.

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