BB Drops D to Push Blues Past Reds in Game 3
- Hannibal, MO
An unlikely hero emerged Tuesday afternoon in the tenth inning of an edge of your seat thriller that took two days to complete. Twenty-four hours earlier, Brandon Bennett left Nichols Field feeling like a goat after getting doubled off second on a one out, bases loaded line drive to the outfield. The Ao Kamio blast looked like a game winner off the bat until a cat like Ian Hatton dove to corral it and doubled off Bennett at second, ending the game for the day. Fast forward a day and two innings later...Bennett stepped to the plate with two men on and one out and drove a first pitch fastball to the base of the wall in the right center gap plating the tying and winning run. The former goat was mobbed at the plate after striding into third with a stand-up triple.
The Blues now lead the best of five series 2-1, taking the Reds to the brink of elimination. Part of the Blues success has been Josh Pierce. The lead-off man has reached base safely seven out of eight times in the series. The Blues will need him to stay hot if they are to take a highly contested game 4.
- Trojan beat writer, Clay Biggs
