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Late-comer Fedroff gives Scrappers offensive punch
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SCRAPPERS - (25) Robbie Alcombrack looses the ball as (12) Shane Peterson gets back to the bag during their game Tuesday night.
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SCRAPPERS - (10) Tim Fedroff slides in to home as (56) Christian Rosa looks on during their game Tuesday night.
Mahoning Valley (28-37) entered the game with a 19-0 mark when leading an opponent after the eighth inning.
NILES — Tim Fedroff has only played in 13 games for Mahoning Valley after getting drafted in the seventh round out of North Carolina and signing his contract late, yet the center fielder has made a great impact in his short stay with the Scrappers.
Monday night Fedroff had four hits in the Scrappers’ win over State College and Tuesday night the left-handed hitting outfielder scored the winning run to give the Scrappers an 8-7 win over the Batavia Muckdogs at Eastwood Field.
Fedroff led off the ninth inning with a walk off Batavia reliever Jason Buursma after two Scrappers relievers blew a four-run lead in the top of the inning.
Lonnie Chisenhall, who blasted a thunderous home run in the sixth inning, followed with a walk and Jeremie Tice hit a long fly to center field which allowed Fedroff to alertly race to third base with the potential game-winning run.
Brock Simpson was walked to load the bases and catcher Michael Valadez hit a fly ball to left field that was deep enough for Fedroff to score the game winner.
“We were just trying to get some good swings on the ball,” said Fedroff who was surprised the bullpen couldn’t hold the four run lead. “That’s not like us to give up runs late in the game.”
The Scrappers (28-37) had entered the game with a 19-0 mark when they were leading an opponent after the eighth inning.
Fedroff has 20 hits in his 13 games and is batting a hefty .392 on the season.
“We’re swinging the bats pretty well,” Fedroff said. “We were looking to get some baserunners on in that last inning and we were fortunate to do that.”
With the Scrappers holding a comfortable 7-3 heading into the ninth inning, Daniel Morales walked three of the first four batters to load the bases and that led manager Travis Fryman to pull him in favor of Carlos Arias.
Arias promptly delivered up a single, double and sacrifice fly to the next three Muckdog hitters to allow Batavia to tie the game.
The Scrappers started quickly with the bats following up on Monday night’s 15-hit attack.
Mahoning Valley scored seven runs on 10 hits in the first six innings to open up a big league.
Robbie Alcombrack led the attack with three hits while Tice and Simpson added two each.
The Scrappers scored two runs in the second inning on a walk and a single an error and an RBI hit by Alcombrack.
Mahoning Valley also tallied three more runs in the third on RBI singles by Fedroff and Simpson and a Batavia error before adding solo runs in the fourth and sixth innings.
Cord Phelps drove in Alcombrack with a sacrifice fly in the fourth and Chisenhall hit his fifth homer in the sixth inning.
Mahoning Valley got a strong outing from starting pitcher Russell Young (4-3, 3.81 ERA).
The lefty from Dartmouth pitched five solid innings of two-hit ball and struck out four batters.
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BATAVIASCRAPPERS
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Cstllns 2b4000Blair lf5110
JGarcia 3b3101Phelps 2b4001
Sedbrook ss5111Fedroff cf4211
Peterson cf3022Chisenhall ss4111
Rosa c4001Tice 3b4220
Scruggs 1b5010Simpson rf4121
Morales dh4000MValadez c4011
Swauger lf3210Alcmbrck 1b4131
Gomez rf3321WDiaz dh3000
Totals34776Totals368116
Batavia001010104—7
Scrappers023101001—8
Two outs when winning run scored.
E—JGomez 2 (3), Scruggs 2 (10), Blair (6), Phelps (4), Young (1). DP—Batavia 1. LOB—Batavia 8, Scrappers 9. 2B—Swauger (7), Peterson 2 (16). 3B—Gomez (5). HR—Gomez (1), Chisenhall (5). CS—Simpson 93). SF—JGarcia, Rosa, Phelps, MValadez.
IPHRERBBSO
Batavia
Tapia366321
Mayes110001
Gorgen441107
Buursma L, 1-32-301130
Scrappers
Young522214
McGuire331113
Morales1-303330
CAarias W, 1-22-321101
Tapia pitched to 2 batters in the 4th. WP—Tapia, Young 2, McGuire. HBP—By McGuire (Castellanos). Umpires—Home, Joseph Born; Bases, Ryan Goodman. T—3:09. A—1,788.
HOW THEY SCORED
Scrappers 2nd — Lonnie Chisenhall flied out (F-8). Jeremie Tice walked. Brock Simpson singled to right field and advanced to 3rd on fielding error (E-9), scoring Tice. Michael Valadez struck out looking. Robert Alcombrack singled to right field, scoring Simpson. Walter Diaz grounded out (6-3). 2 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB
Batavia 3rd — Edwin Gomez homered to left field. Alex Castellanos flied out (F-8). Jose Garcia flied out (F-8). Colt Sedbrook struck out looking. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB
Scrappers 3rd — Ryan Blair reaches on fielding error (E-3). With Cord Phelps batting, Blair to 2nd on wild pitch. Phelps grounded out (4-3), Blair to 3rd. Tim Fedroff singled to right field, scoring Blair. Chisenhall flied out (F-8). Tice singled to left field, Fedroff to 2nd. Simpson singled to right field and advanced to third on throwing error (E-9), scoring Fedroff and Tice. Valadez flied out (F-9). 3 runs, 3 hits, 2 errors, 1 LOB
Scrappers 4th — Alcombrack singled to left field. Diaz walked, Alcombrack to 2nd. Pitching change: LaCurtis Mayes replaced Miguel Tapia. Blair bunt singled to third base, Alcombrack to 3rd, Diaz to 2nd. Phelps out on a sacrifice fly (F-7), scoring Alcombrack. Fedroff flied out (F-8). Chisenhall struck out swinging. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB
Batavia 5th — Chris Swauger doubled to right field. Gomez struck out looking. Castellanos grounded out (6-3). With Garcia batting, Swauger to 3rd on wild pitch. With Garcia batting, Swauger scored on wild pitch. Garcia struck out looking. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB
Scrappers 6th — Phelps flied out (F-8). Fedroff grounded out (5-3). Chisenhall homered to right-center field. Tice struck out swinging (2-3). 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB
Batavia 7th — Swauger popped out (F-6). Gomez tripled to center field. Castellanos hit by pitch. Garcia out on a sacrifice fly (F-7), scoring Gomez. Sedbrook grounded out into force out (6-4). 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB
Batavia 9th — Pitching change: Daniel Morales replaced Michael McGuire. Swauger walked. Gomez walked, Swauger to 2nd. Castellanos flied out (F-9). Garcia walked, Swauger to 3rd, Gomez to 2nd. Pitching change: Carlos Arias replaced Morales. Sedbrook singled to left field, scoring Swauger, Gomez to 3rd, Garcia to 2nd. Peterson doubled to center field, scoring Gomez and Garcia, Sedbrook to 3rd. Rosa out on sacrifice fly (F-7), scoring Sedbrook. Scruggs struck out swinging. 4 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB
Scrappers 9th — Pitching change: Jason Buursma replaced Scott Gorgen. Fedroff walked. Chisenhall walked, Fedroff to 2nd. Tice flied out to (F-8), Fedroff to 3rd. Simpson intentionally walked, Chisenhall to 2nd. Valadez out on a sacrifice fly (F-7), scoring Fedroff. 1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB