Late Home Runs Lift So. Illinois Over Traverse City
Source: Frontier League News
Marion, IL (August 2, 2018) – The Southern Illinois Miners won their fourth game in a row overall and finished 8-2 on their 10-game homestand with a thrilling late comeback, tying the game in the seventh on a two-run homer by Chance Shepard and going ahead on a solo blast in the eighth from Daniel Comstock en route to an 8-7 win over the Traverse City Beach Bums at Rent One Park on Thursday night. In a game with several twists and turns, the Miners grabbed the initial lead in the bottom of the first inning on Shepard’s first blast of the night, a two-run home run off starter Justin Finan that made it 2-0. The Beach Bums would come back, scoring a two-out run on a double from Kendall Patrick in the second inning, and tying the game on Steve Lohr’s RBI hit in the fourth inning at 2-2. Again, the Miners played long ball, and took the lead in the bottom of the fifth, with Romeo Cortina smacking his second homer in as many nights out to left field to put Southern Illinois back in front 4-2. An RBI groundout by Kurt Wertz, Jr. later in the inning…
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