\n\tThe Battle Creek Bombers fell 6-5 to the Kenosha Kingfish Friday night at C.O. Brown Stadium, splitting the two-game series. With the loss, the Bombers drop to 27-28 on the season and 9-10 in the second half.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Bombers fell behind early on, but their bats started to make some noise. With the Bombers trailing 5-0 in the fourth inning, first baseman Nick Podkul hit a one-out single and advanced to second after catcher Jacob Blunt followed with a single. Left fielder Daniel Jipping lined a single into center field, scoring Podkul to make it a 5-1 deficit. After Storm Joop struck out, right fielder Eric Gilgenbach walked to load the bases, but Nick Poirier grounded out to end the inning.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Kingfish would get the run back in the top of the fifth inning to make it a 6-1 lead. While trailing by five in the seventh inning, Storm Joop led off with a walk. With two outs, second baseman Jarrod Watkins reached on an error to give the Bombers two runners on, but Ryan Dorow struck out to end the Bombers’ threat.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Bombers continued to trail 6-1 before putting up a ferocious rally in the bottom of the ninth inning. Daniel Jipping led off the inning with a walk. Storm Joop reached on an error, advancing Jipping to second. Eric Gilgenbach followed with a walk to load the bases for the Bombers with nobody out.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tPinch hitter Christian Helsel worked a bases loaded walk, scoring Jipping to cut the Kingfish lead to 6-2. After pinch hitter Daniel Patzlaff struck out, Ryan Dorow reached on an error, scoring Storm Joop to make it a 6-3 ballgame. Eric Gilgenbach would come home to score on a wild pitch, and the Bombers then just trailed 6-4. With one out, Dean Miller grounded out, but Helsel scored on the play to make it a 6-5 game. With two outs, Nick Podkul flew out to right field to end the rally.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tCody Puckett took the loss in the game, his second of the year. He allowed six runs on eight hits in 4.2 innings.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Bombers now welcome the Wisconsin Woodchucks to Battle Creek for a two-game stint starting Saturday evening at 6:05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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