Courtesy Vermont Lake Monsters<\/p>\n
BURLINGTON — 23 hours after delivering Vermont\u2019s first walkoff win of the season with an RBI double at midnight of Thursday\u2019s doubleheader, Kevin Richards recorded another game-ender with a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the 12th for a Lake Monsters 2-1 win over the Connecticut Tigers before 2,388 fans on Friday night at historic Centennial Field.<\/p>\n
After neither team could take advantage of a placed runner at second base to start the 10th and 11th innings, Clark Cota worked around a leadoff hit batter to keep the Tigers scoreless top 12th.
\nMarty Bechina led off the bottom of the 12th with a sacrifice bunt to advance Logan Davidson over to third base.<\/p>\n
Playing its fourth straight extra-inning game, Vermont got a four-pitch walk to Kyle McCann and Connecticut then elected to intentionally walk Jordan Diaz to load the bases. Tigers reliever Alfredo Silvia (0-1) threw two straight balls to fall behind Richards, then after a foul ball for strike one, threw two more balls to Richards forcing home Davidson with the winning run.<\/p>\n
Earlier after leaving the bases loaded with no outs in the second, Vermont scored an unearned run in the third when Jose Rivas reached on a throwing error and scored on a Shane Selman RBI groundball double off the glove of shortstop Ryan Kriedler.<\/p>\n
Game stayed 1-0 all the way to the ninth Kriedler walked with one out and advance to second on a pickoff attempt throwing error by catcher Rivas with two outs. The error proved costly as Jake Holton followed with an RBI groundball single to center to tie the game.<\/p>\n
Lake Monsters starter Seth Shuman allowed just one hit, a one-out fourth inning single, with two walks over five scoreless innings. The sixth-round pick out of Georgia Southern finishes his first pro season with a 2.39 ERA (10 earned runs in 37 2\/3 innings) over his 11 Vermont outings.<\/p>\n
Vince Coletti allowed two hits and had two strikeouts as he got the final out of the ninth inning before back-to-back scoreless 10th and 11th innings. Cota (2-3) had a strikeout in his one frame to earn the win. Diaz and Selman both had two of the Lake Monsters nine hits.<\/p>\n
Vermont (33-40), which finishes with a 18-20 record while drawing just over 83,000 fans at Centennial Field this season, head down to Tri-City for the final three games of the season 7:00 pm Saturday, 5:00 pm Sunday and 3:00 pm Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Courtesy Vermont Lake Monsters BURLINGTON — 23 hours after delivering Vermont\u2019s first walkoff win of the season with an RBI double at midnight of Thursday\u2019s doubleheader, Kevin Richards recorded another game-ender with a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the 12th for a Lake Monsters 2-1 win over the Connecticut Tigers before 2,388 fans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[280,279],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n