Miners Storm Back To Win Finale Over ThunderBolts

Miners Storm Back To Win Finale Over ThunderBolts

Source: Frontier League News

MARION, Ill.  – The Southern Illinois Miners trailed 5-0 in the fifth inning of Sunday’s series finale against the Windy City ThunderBolts at Rent One Park before mounting a big comeback, scoring three in the fifth and three more in the sixth before the bullpen shut the visitors down in a 6-5 win. The game was scoreless through the first three innings before Larry Balkwill’s solo homer off Chris Washington made it 1-0 Windy City in the fourth. The ThunderBolts would then bat around their order and score four more times in the fifth inning, all with two outs on RBI hits by Riley Krane and Tim Zier along with a throwing error to put the Miners in a 5-0 hole. Southern Illinois, however, would climb out of that hole beginning immediately against Windy City starter Drake Robison in the bottom of the fifth inning. Robison hit Ryan Sluder leading off before the Miners’ first hit of the game, a single to left field by London Lindley, was misplayed by Coco Johnson, allowing Sluder to score and make it 5-1. The next pitch was hit fair down the first base line by Craig Massey for a double to bring Lindley home for a 5-2 score, and three batters…

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