Miners Rally In Ninth To Shut Out Windy City
Source: Frontier League News
MARION, Ill. – The Southern Illinois Miners bounced back on Friday night in Crestwood, Illinois against the Windy City ThunderBolts, rallying for three runs in the top of the ninth inning to break a scoreless tie and earn a 3-0 win at Standard Bank Stadium to snap a four-game losing streak. The game was a pitcher’s duel throughout as both Tyler Stubblefield and Windy City’s T.J. Santiago pitched scoreless baseball for the first eight innings. The Miners got two singles in a row against Santiago in the first inning, but could not score, while Stubblefield (5-1) walked the leadoff batter in the bottom of the first inning, but got a double-play groundout from Coco Johnson immediately thereafter to get out of that frame with no runs on the board. Both starting pitchers settled down in the middle of the game, with Santiago retiring 14 Miners in a row between the first and fifth innings and Stubblefield retiring 10 ThunderBolts in a row between the third and seventh. Both hurlers finished the game with eight shutout innings, three singles allowed, one walk and three strikeouts, and both also threw 90 pitches in the effort. But it was Southern Illinois who broke through in the…
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