Scrappers suffer 11-inning loss, 3-2

Batavia scored the game winner on a single, two wild pitches and a sacrifice fly.

VINDICATOR STAFF/WIRE REPORT

BATAVIA, N.Y. — In its first four games this season the Mahoning Valley Scrappers have just about seen it all.

The Scrappers have won a close one, lost a blowout and, Friday night, suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 loss in 11 innings to the Batavia Muckdogs in their first road game of the season.

Mahoning Valley (2-2) has struggled offensively the past two games, getting just five hits on Thursday and managing just three hits Friday off four Muckdog pitchers.

Scrappers reliever Carlos Arias suffered the defeat on Friday and he had nobody to blame but himself.

Arias, who came on in the ninth inning, blanked Batavia in the ninth and 10th innings, but in the bottom of the 11th he allowed a leadoff single by Edwin Gomez. Arias then threw back-to-back wild pitches, allowing Gomez to reach third with nobody out. He scored the winning run when Jose Garcia hit a sacrifice fly to right field.

Batavia, which won for the first time in four games, had only seven hits, but Colt Sedbrook had three of them including a triple.

The Scrappers scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings as Brock Simpson and Corteze Armstrong each had an RBI. Armstrong, Donnie Webb and Isaias Velasquez had the only hits for Mahoning Valley,

The two teams will play the second game in the three-game series tonight at 7:05.

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E—Simpson (2), Tice (2), Sedbrook (1). LOB— Scrappers 5, Batavia 11. 2B—Scruggs (1), Curtis (1); 3B—Webb (1), Sedbrook (1).

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HBP—by Arias (Murphy); WP—Arias 3, Lugo; Umpires—Home, Joey Amaral, First, Doug Vines; T—3:10; A—1,553.

HOW THEY SCORED

BATAVIA 3, SCRAPPERS 2 (11 innings)

Batavia 3rd — Jose Garcia walks. Beau Riportella pops out to catcher. Chris Swauger reaches on force attempt, throwing error by first baseman Brock Simpson. Jose Garcia to 2nd. Colt Sedbrook singles to center, Garcia scores. Swauger to 2nd. Shane Peterson flies out to left. Blake Murphy strikes out swinging. 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 LOB.

Scrappers 4th — Donnie Webb triples to right. Ryan Blair grounds out to pitcher. Jeremie Tice walks. Brock Simpson out on a sacrifice fly to center, Webb scores. Robert Alcombrack grounds into a force out, Tice out at 2nd. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 error, 1 LOB

Batavia 4th — Xavier Scruggs doubles to left. Jermaine Curtis grounds out to first, Scruggs to 3rd. Jon Edwards flies out to right. Jose Garcia singles left, Scruggs scores. Riportella flies out to right. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.

Scrappers 5th — Jason Rodriguez grounds out to first. Juan Valdes walks. With Isaias Velasquez batting, Valdes caught stealing 2nd base. Velasquez singles to shortstop, Velasquez advances to 2nd, on throwing error by shortstop Colt Sedbrook. Corteze Armstrong singles to center, Velasquez scores. Webb called out on strikes. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.

Batavia 11th — Edwin Gomez singled past third. Gomez to second on wild pitch. Gomez to third on wild pitch; Jose Garcia flies out to right field, Gomez scores. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.