{"id":5123,"date":"2021-07-25T03:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T03:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/?p=5123"},"modified":"2021-07-25T03:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T03:19:51","slug":"rivets-fall-behind-cant-come-back-at-traverse-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rockford-rivets\/2021\/07\/25\/rivets-fall-behind-cant-come-back-at-traverse-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivets fall behind, can\u2019t come back at Traverse City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Larson<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rockford\u2019s losing streak against the Traverse City Pit Spitters grew to 11 games, as the Rivets\u2019 dropped the first game of their road trip 9-4 at Turtle Creek Stadium on Saturday night. The loss drops the team&#8217;s record to 7-10 in the second half and 22-30 overall.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coming off his best start of the season, Ryan Culley (So, Central Michigan) struggled out of the gate, allowing 2 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rivets offense responded in a big way in the top of the 2nd inning, scoring three times to take the lead. The first blow came off the bat of Connor Goodman (R-So, UW-Milwaukee) who dropped an RBI single into center field to drive in two runs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goodman moved to second base on an error, and was driven in by Josue Urdeneta (R-Fr, Indiana State) to pull the Rivets ahead 3-2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately for Rockford, Traverse City kept on scoring. The Spitters tied the game at 3 using an RBI ground out in the 2nd, and regained the lead in the 3rd, pushing across runs on a Trey Yunger (Fr, Wofford) RBI single and a wild pitch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Culley\u2019s struggles came to a head in the 4th inning, as he walked the bases loaded with one out. At that point, Elijah Sanchez (Jr, Northern Illinois) entered in relief, but three runs scored on a single and sac fly, helping TC break open a 8-3 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sanchez helped keep the game quiet from that point on, tossing 3.2 scoreless innings, but Rockford\u2019s bats were unable to wake up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Traverse City scored once more in the 8th, and the Rivets received another RBI knock from Urdeneta in the 9th, but the rally fell well short.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The loss and tonight\u2019s Kokomo win, the Rivets now stand 5 games out of playoff contention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rockford will get another shot to pick up its first win against Traverse City since July 17th, 2019 tomorrow at 5:05 ET.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Larson Rockford\u2019s losing streak against the Traverse City Pit Spitters grew to 11 games, as the Rivets\u2019 dropped  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":4985,"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-5123","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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