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Lookouts Beat The Wahoos In 10; Wahoos Honor Molino’s Fryman
May 17, 2013
The Chattanooga Lookouts escaped massive trouble in the ninth and went on to blow out the Pensacola Blue Wahoos in 10 innings, 8-2, on Thursday night at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium in a game that started by honoring a Molino man.
The Blue Wahoos honored two of Major League baseball’s greats to Pensacola’s Bayfront Stadium Thursday night. Tate High School grad Travis Fryman, former third baseman and shortstop for the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians, threw out the first pitch along with Ken “Squeaky” Parker, a member of the Cincinnati Reds’ organization and legendary major league scout.
In the third straight extra-inning affair between the two squads, Chattanooga erupted for six runs in the top of the 10th inning. With two on and two out, Blake Smith laced a three-run homer just over the left field wall off of Drew Hayes to give the Lookouts a 5-2 advantage. Two batters later, Griff Erickson tripled home C.J. Retherford to end Hayes’ outing. Shaun Ellis then gave up a first-pitch, two-run homer to Chris Jacobs to cap the six-run onslaught.
Hayes picked up the loss to fall to 1-1 by giving up five runs on three hits in .2 innings. Greg Infante picked up his first win of the season for Chattanooga by holding the Wahoos scoreless in the last two innings.
The Wahoos had a great chance to win the game in regulation. Pensacola loaded the bases with one out in the ninth for Brodie Greene who sent a fly ball out to medium-depth right field where Yasiel Puig made the catch for the second out. Tucker Barnhart tagged from third and tried to score the winning run, but Puig fired a bullet to home that nabbed Barnhart and forced extra innings.
Pensacola jumped out to an early 1-0 lead thanks to a first-inning homer from Ryan LaMarre. It was LaMarre’s third homer of the series and fourth of the season.
The game then seesawed in the middle innings with Chattanooga tying the game on a Puig RBI double in the sixth inning. The Wahoos countered in the last of the six when Barnhart tripled to right-center, scoring Travis Mattair to regain the lead at 2-1. Not to be denied, the Lookouts came right back in the top of the 7th and knotted the game at two on a two-out RBI triple from Rafael Ynoa.
Despite the loss, the Wahoos won the series three games to two over the Lookouts and now continue the season-long 10-game homestand with the first of five against the Mobile BayBears on Friday night. Chad Rogers (2-2, 2.43) will get the ball for Pensacola against Mobile’s Andrew Chafin (1-1, 1.50)
story by Kevin Burke
Pictured: Molino’s Travis Fryan (white Wahoos jersey) tossed the first pitch for Thursday night’s Wahoo game along with Ken “Squeaky” Parker. Photos by Gary McCraken for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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