Missoula Osprey Avoid Sweep at Hands of Idaho Falls Chukars with 8-7 game Four Win

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After winning the first three games of the four game series against the Missoula Osprey, the Idaho Falls Chukars lost 8-7 on Tuesday night. The Chukars held two separate four-run leads, but the Osprey came out on top.

Back-to-back doubles by Fernando Garcia and Alwin Perez gave the Chukars a 1-0 lead at the end of the first inning. After the Osprey tied the game in the second inning, the Chukars scored two runs in the third and two runs in the fourth. The second Chukars’ run of the game came, once again, on back-to-back hits by Garcia and Perez. Perez would also score that inning on one of the five errors committed by the Osprey. In the fourth Perez would hit a double to drive in Fernando Garcia. Perez scored that inning as well. Perez and Garcia combined to go 5-9, with three doubles, three RBIs and five runs scored. By the end of the fifth inning the Chukars led 6-2, thanks to an Antonio Jimenez triple and an Osprey error.

In the top of a sixth inning the Osprey dropped five runs on the Chukars. The Osprey rally was fueled by three walks, five hits, and an error. Down one, Chukars’ outfielder Shawn Griffin hit a solo home run to tie the game in the bottom half of the sixth inning. After fourteen total runs in the first six innings, the two teams combined for only one run in the final three innings. With two runners in scoring position a groundout to the right side of the infield brought the game-winning run home in the eighth for Missoula.
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Chukars’ pitcher struck out twelve batters, but also allowed ten walks. Starter Ryan Morgan continues to improve in his new role as a starter. Morgan went four innings and struck out six, while allowing only one run. Derrick Saito pitched one inning and allowed five runs, but avoided his fourth straight loss. The loss Tuesday went to James Thompson. Thompson fell to 1-1 after allowing one run in two innings of work.

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