{"id":5090,"date":"2021-07-11T02:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T02:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2021-07-11T02:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T02:55:35","slug":"bullpen-clutch-hitting-clinches-win-over-woodchucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/2021\/07\/11\/bullpen-clutch-hitting-clinches-win-over-woodchucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullpen, clutch hitting clinches win over Woodchucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite another rough start, the Rivets recovered to complete a five-run comeback victory, 6-5 over the Wisconsin Woodchucks on Saturday night at Rivets Stadium. The win is Rockford\u2019s 3rd straight and improves its 2nd half record to 3-2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ben Vitas (Fr, Central Michigan) stumbled out of the gate, allowing two runs in the 1st inning, followed by three in the 2nd on seven Woodchucks hits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks to a Phil Matulia (Jr, Louisiana Tech) triple and Daniel Cantu (R-Fr, South Florida) sacrifice fly in the 1st, the Rivets trailed 5-1 after two frames.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Woodchucks starter Bobby Vath (R-Fr, Arizona Western) cruised along, the score held until the bottom of the 6th. Rockford chased Vath by starting the frame with a single from Cantu and double from Tommy Benson (R-Fr, Triton College).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brain Fuentes (R-Fr, Indiana State) drove in Cantu with an RBI single, and Benson followed on a sharp ground ball that resulted in an error off the bat of Jared Cushing (R-Fr, Xavier). Later in the frame, Fuentes came around to score on a groundout from Drew Stengren (Fr, Central Michigan) to make the score 5-4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the other side of the scorecard, Jake Armstrong (R-So, UW-Milwaukee) took over for Vitas in dominant fashion. After taking over in the 4th inning, the righty tossed up five straight zeros to allow a Rivets comeback.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the bottom of the 7th, Matulia reached on an error and scored on an RBI double by Benson to knot the game at 5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Armstrong pitched a scoreless top of the 8th inning and Rockford didn\u2019t score in the bottom half, Cade Turner (Fr, Illinois-Springfield) came on for the 9th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turner hit the first batter he faced, but retired the next two, before closer Tucker Shalley (Fr, Parkland College) retired fellow all-star Kevin Kilpatrick (R-Fr, Central Florida CC) with a runner on 2nd to keep the game tied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the bottom of the 9th, Greg Ziegler (So, Missouri State) singled to put the winning run on base. Josue Urdeneta (R-Fr, Indiana State) struck out before Matulia reached on an error and Cantu was intentionally walked to load the bases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Benson then drilled a ground ball to third base, but Antonio Valdez (So, Baylor) made the play at the plate to bring up Fuentes with two outs and the bases loaded. Fuentes drew a full count, but took ball four on a fastball high and outside to hand the Rivets their 4th walk-off win of the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rockford and Wisconsin will wrap up their 4-game season series tomorrow afternoon at 3:05 pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite another rough start, the Rivets recovered to complete a five-run comeback victory, 6-5 over the Wisconsin Woodchucks on Saturday  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":5033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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