Garden City coughs up big lead on the road
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | X | 15 | 9 | 2 |
McCook, Neb-Injuries have taken their toll this season.
Playing shorthanded again, Garden City watched as their five-run lead evaporated. Nathan Hutchison and Cory Wouters each homered, and McCook stormed back to beat the Broncbusters, 15-12 on Tuesday afternoon.
Starter, Nathaniel Danielson left the game with the lead, allowing four runs on four hits over four innings. But the bullpen couldn't hold it.
After Nate Mountjoy tossed an inning of scoreless relief, Jackson Sherren never made it out of the sixth. He allowed the first two men to reach before committing a throwing error. After walking the bases loaded, he yielded back-to-back run-scoring singles. A pair of wild pitches allowed another two runs to score, Sherren hit Landon McCkillip with the bases loaded, and Hutchinson hit a three-run homer to cap off a nine-run inning. Incredibly, all that damage was done on only three hits.
Just like that, the game flipped.
Hutchison and Wouters added RBI singles in the eighth to make it 15-9.
Garden City, which fell to 16-19 overall, jumped out to a 5-1 lead. Mason Tafoya hammered a three-run homer in the fourth, and Justin Bush ripped a two-run single to left in the fifth.
McCook, which snapped a four-game losing streak, improved to 15-21.