Biscuits Beat Wahoos

June 14, 2015

Jacob Johnson earned his first Double-A start in three seasons for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos and looked like he never moved to the bullpen.

The big right-hander gave up two hits, one walk and one earned run in five innings and struck out two, as Pensacola entered the bottom of the seventh inning ahead, 3-1.

However, the Montgomery Biscuits ended up sweeping the seven-inning doubleheaders against Pensacola at Riverwalk Stadium. Montgomery won, 4-3, in the eighth inning of the second game when third baseman Patrick Leonard scored on a two-out, wild pitch by Blue Wahoos reliever Kyle McMyne. The Blue Wahoos lost the first game, 3-2, on a walk-off home run by second baseman Thomas Coyle in the seventh.

In the second game, Johnson got the spot start after Blue Wahoos Keyvius Sampson earned a promotion to the Triple-A Louisville Bats earlier this week. In his past five games out of the bullpen, Johnson had given seven runs on 13 hits and five walks in 10 innings.

But Pensacola blew Johnson’s one-run effort by allowing Montgomery to send the game into extra innings by scoring two in the seventh inning to tie it, 3-3. Biscuits right fielder Boog Powell drove in Leonard, who had walked. Then pinch runner Juniel Querecuto scored on a two-out walk to Biscuits first baseman Cameron Seitzer.

Pensacola had gone ahead, 3-1, in the fourth inning when third baseman Marquez Smith hit a solo homer to left field. Blue Wahoos center fielder Juan Perez then scored on a single by left fielder Juan Silva after knocking his fourth triple of the season.

The first game of the doubleheader was delayed by an hour, 19 minutes because of rain.

Montgomery won, 3-2, on the walk-off homer by Coyle off Pensacola reliever Zach Weiss to start the seventh inning.

Weiss fell to 0-3 with a 6.75 ERA and ruined a quality start by Tim Adleman (2-6) who threw six innings and allowed only two runs on five hits, one walk and four strikeouts. Adleman, who had the third best ERA in the Southern League entering the game, was chosen to his first All-Star game earlier this week.

Meanwhile, Biscuits reliever Ryan Garton got his first Double-A win to improve to 1-0 when he came in to pitch the final 1.1 innings. Garton has struck out 17 batters in 14.1 innings after fanning left fielder Jesse Winker, first baseman Ray Chang and Smith in the final inning. He did allowed a single on a soft liner by right fielder Kyle Waldrop.

In the top of the fifth of the first game of the doubleheader, Pensacola went ahead, 2-1, when Chang hit a sacrifice fly to center to drive in second baseman Ryan Wright.

But Montgomery came right back in the bottom of the inning to tie the game, 2-2, when right fielder Joey Rickard grounded out to third to score Coyle from third. Coyle lead off the inning when he was hit by a pitch.

Montgomery tied the game at one in the third, when Powell doubled to left field to score shortstop Juniel Querecuto, who had an infield single to shortstop.

Pensacola took the lead, 1-0, when Smith singled in Chang, who singled on a line drive to left field.

Montgomery improved its record to 32-30 in the Southern League North Division. Meanwhile, Pensacola dropped to 23-38 and last place in the South Division. The Blue Wahoos now have the worst record in one-run games in the Southern League at 7-19 for a .269 winning percentage.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News, Sports