River City Rascals - Independent Professional Baseball

MAYCOCK BOMBS AWAY FOR GAME WINNER

MARION, IL – For just the second time in 41 chances, the River City Rascals rallied when trailing after seven innings.

Dan Maycock hit a three-run home run to center field in the eighth inning for the game winning hit as the Rascals downed the Southern Illinois Miners 6-5 Friday night at Rent One Park.

For Maycock, it was hit first hit in 12 at-bats and seventh home run as a Rascal.

Jonathan Miller worked two innings for his seventh save of the season. The right-hander entered in the bottom of eighth inning with the tying run at first and Brandon Jones at the plate. Miller struck out Jones and got Eric Suttle to hit into a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning. The Miners went in order in the ninth.

Maycock’s home run in the eighth inning capped a five run rally, most of it against their former teammate Armando Carrasco. With one out, Luke Barganier singled and Brad Hough reached on a fly ball which was dropped in right by Suttle at the wall. After a walk to Laurent loaded the bases, Jeff Miller drove in two with a single to left.

Carrasco would give way to Griffen Bailey who got the second out of the inning before giving up the three run blast to Maycock. Bailey (5-5) took the loss for Southern Illinois.

Ryan Ashner relieved Adam White in the seventh and pitched a scoreless inning to improve to 1-0.

The Rascals improved to 2-2 against the Miners in Marion this season and moved to 44-47 with the win. The two teams play game two of the series Saturday night with the game time starting at 7:05 p.m. Catch the Rascals on the road by tuning into FM 104.5 KSLQ or online at RiverCityRascals.com.

8/29/08
River City 6, Southern Illinois 5

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
River City	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	6	9	0
Southern Illinois	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	1

River City	POS	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG
L. Barganier	CF	5	1	2	0	.307
B. Hough	LF	5	1	0	0	.261
P. Laurent	RF	3	1	0	0	.240
J. Miller	1B	4	1	1	2	.277
C. Raniere	2B	3	0	0	0	.279
D. Maycock	DH	3	2	1	3	.261
A. Sweet	CAT	4	0	2	0	.322
R. Wehrle	3B	4	0	2	1	.265
G. Stone	SS	4	0	1	0	.229
A. White	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
R. Ashner	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
B. Logan	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
J. Miller	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
TOTALS		35	6	9	6

Southern Illinois	POS	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG
A. Miller	LF/RF	4	2	1	0	.256
K. Koski	CF	4	1	2	1	.285
A. Bennett	2B	0	0	0	0	.200
J. Metrpoulos	DH	2	1	1	1	.308
T. Dorn	1B	4	0	1	1	.297
B. Akashian	CAT	1	0	0	0	.316
B. Jones	3B	4	0	0	0	.270
E. Suttle	CF/RF	4	0	0	1	.294
M. Paula	2B/LF	4	1	2	1	.216
M. Scanzano	SS	4	0	0	0	.254
C. Allen	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
J. McMurran	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
A. Carrasco	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
G. Bailey	PIT	0	0	0	0	.000
TOTALS		31	5	7	5

E--E.Suttle. DP--RIVER CITY 2, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 0. LOB--RIVER CITY 5, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 5. 2B--K.Koski (7). 3B--A.Miller (1). HR--D.Maycock (7), M.Paula (2). SB--L.Barganier (12), C.Raniere (5), A.Miller (9), K.Koski (16). SF--J.Metrpoulos.

River City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
A. White	6.0	7	5	5	4	3	1	4.45
R. Ashner (W, 1-0)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2.41
B. Logan	0.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4.11
J. Miller	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3.89

Southern Illinois	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
C. Allen	5.0	3	1	1	1	2	0	3.41
J. McMurran	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2.57
A. Carrasco	1.1	2	4	1	2	1	0	2.95
G. Bailey (L,5-5)	1.2	3	1	1	0	1	1	2.89

WP--C.Allen. SO--L.Barganier, B.Hough 2, D.Maycock, A.Sweet, K.Koski, J.Metrpoulos, T.Dorn, B.Jones 2. BB--P.Laurent, C.Raniere, D.Maycock, A.Miller, J.Metrpoulos, B.Akashian 3.

Time: 3:03, Attendance: 5,434