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| Posted May 28/13 - ROCKETS OPEN SEASON 1-2 |
| The portland rockets opened their 54th season this weekend. The rockets go 1-2 on the weekend losing sun 17-7 to the richmond riverrats Sunday. The rockets split with the napolean riverbandits losing9-8 before taking the nitecap 7-6. At beautiful mcbride stadium sun mitch waters started and pitched well for 3 innings , in fact a thomas mccowan single plated zach tanner and the rockets led 1-0 in the second. Dan bollenbacher came on in the 4th with the game tied 3-3 the rocket workhorse found no good turns, taylor luna, travis gray and aaron paschal all pitched, rockets losing 17-7, this titanic struggle 3 15 minutes.3 hits doug tinsley, 2 hits including a home run zach tanner Sunday at beautiful Miami University McKie stadium rockets lost game 1 9-8 in the last inning. Trailing 4-0 in the 6th rockets marked a 7 spot keyed by a 3 run homer by justin marrero the rockets led 8-4 in the last inning. As marrero rounded third after his blast, we slapped hands, justin said, “that one’s for you pud” Zach tanner tripled in the top of the 7th and scored on a wild pitch,,,, nice to see portland on top 8-4 with but one more inning to play. Closer junior santos on the mound gets 2 strikeouts before a looping aluminum double just out of center fielder tinsley’s reach and whoops 3 straight ground ball errors and a wild pitch and we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory,,,,a 5 run implosion. Riverrats 9 rockets 8 and here is a first 7 of 9 runs unearned great pitching performance----art I called it michael caley returning starter from Indiana Wesleyan also from kyle zerface, huntington toughest loss I can recall coach mccowan called jimmy johns we win 7-6 ben smith returning rocket from 2 years ago, played in medicine hat canada last summer, goes 4-4 with 2 triples tyler reynolds gets the win dalton gentry, wabash,jon keesling wapahani, and travis gray norwell finished up dalton tinsley had 7 hits on the weekend, ben smith 6, zach tanner 5 Home runs tanner marrero nice portland contingent on hand in oxford, million dollar complex, including the brad miller and doug and stacy blankenbaker—hope that motorcyle ride did not turn into a wet ride special thanks to orie poole and crew on the new addition of a batting cage to our field rockets play thur in ft. wayne at carrington field vs the red sox, 1st game in the ft wayne league 7 pm nick mccoy from albion in the starter rockets go 1-2 in the opening weekend summer fun in store look out the rocket train is rollin |
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