Wahoos Washed Out

June 18, 2016

The Pensacola Blue Wahoos and Mobile BayBears game was suspended and is scheduled to be completed at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Blue Wahoos Stadium. The second game will begin 30 minutes after and will be seven innings.

The score was tied, 2-2, in the top of the fifth inning when an ominous dark cloud settled over Blue Wahoos Stadium and the rain started.

The Blue Wahoos scored two runs in the second inning to take the lead for the first time in the early innings in 11 ball games since June 8.

Pensacola second baseman Brandon Dixon singled on a sharp grounder past the shortstop and stole second base. Blue Wahoos shortstop Zach Vincej then hit a line drive to right field to score Dixon to put Pensacola ahead, 1-0. Vincej then scored when left fielder Tony Renda smacked a line drive to right field to put the Blue Wahoos up, 2-0.

However, in the top of the fifth inning, Mobile catcher Ronnie Freeman and shortstop Ildemaro Vargas scored to tie the game, 2-2, on a rocket hit by center fielder Evan Marzilli back up the middle.

Pensacola starting pitcher Sal Romano was hurrying to finish the fifth inning to make the game official and give the Blue Wahoos the victory. He was one pitch away from doing just that with a 3-2 count on Mobile’s Marzilli. But Marzilli ripped the ball to center to tie it.

Pensacola is 38-29 and temporarily tied with the Biloxi Shuckers, who defeated the Jacksonville Suns, 4-1, Friday.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News, Sports, TOP sports