Jacksonville Suns Defeat Mobile BayBears 9-8 - AA, Southern League

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After a Juan Gonzalez three-run homerun tied the game in the eighth inning, Ivan DeJesus, Jr. ended it in the ninth with a single scoring James Tomlin, giving the Jacksonville Suns (47-54, 14-17) a 9-8 victory over the Mobile BayBears (42-58, 13-17) in front of 4,287 Tuesday night at the Baseball Grounds.
 
The win was Jacksonville’s first in their final at-bat during the 2008 season, coming in the 51st home game out of 70. The Suns lead the season series against Mobile nine games to six.
 
After Mobile scored a second inning run to open the scoring, Jacksonville gained their first lead in the third inning, scoring five runs with two out against Mobile starter Matt Green for a 5-1 advantage. A Jamie Hoffmann triple scored two runs while a Mark Bellhorn single, Green throwing error and Russell Mitchell single each plated runs.

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The BayBears chipped away at the lead, scoring another run against Suns starter Jesus Rodriguez in the fourth inning on a Cyle Hankerd double for a 5-2 score.
 
Rodriguez allowed two runs and six hits over five innings with one walk and four strikeouts.
 
Mobile added a third run against reliever Jacobo Meque in the seventh inning on a Yunesky Sanchez groundout for a 5-3 Suns lead.
 
The BayBears regained the advantage in the eighth inning, scoring four runs against Suns reliever Scott Elbert. Gerardo Parra and Rusty Ryal scored on a Cyle Hankerd single, knocking Elbert out of the game in favor of Edwardo Sierra. A fielder’s choice and an error scored Bryan Byrne to give Mobile the lead at 6-5. Orlando Mercado’s sacrifice fly scored Hankerd for a 7-5 lead, ending the line for Elbert. Yunesky Sanchez later drove home a run charged to Sierra with a fielder’s choice to open an 8-5 BayBears lead.

Jacksonville used late heroics to get back in the game as Juan Gonzalez belted his 12th homerun of the season, a three-run blast in the eighth, for an 8-8 deadlock.
 
In the ninth inning against Mobile reliever Vince Bongiovanni, Suns right fielder James Tomlin tripled off the top of the left-centerfield wall with one out. Ivan DeJesus, Jr. next hit a towering pop-up to right-centerfield that neither centerfielder Chris Rahl nor right fielder Gerardo Parra handled, allowing Tomlin to score the game-winning run.
 
Sierra (5-1) picked up the win for Jacksonville while Bongiovanni (2-3) fell in the loss for Mobile.

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