Steelreign : Indianapolis Outlasts Louisville In 13 Innings

Casey Sadler used a strong outing to help the Indianapolis Indians top the Louisville Bats 3-2 Friday night at Victory Park. The win raised the Indians record to 4-5, which ended the opening home stand of the 2015 season. Sadler went six innings, giving up one run on four hits with four strikeouts, while not issuing any free passes. Reliever Charlie Leesman got the win after giving up one run and three hits in his inning of work. In between Sadler and Leesman, four relievers helped to hold the Bats in check, including Brad Lincoln, who induced a rare 6-2-5 double play to end the top of the tenth.
Offensively, the Indians wasted three opportunities to put this game away including when they had the bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the eleventh. In the bottom of the thirteenth however, the Indians finally ended it with a walkoff single by pinch hitter Elias Diaz off of Bats reliever Nick Christiani. Christiani started the bottom of the thirteenth by walking Jaff Decker and Mel Rojas Jr. on 6 pitches. Steve Lombardozzi, 2 for 3 with 2 RBI , then stepped to the plate and drove in Decker and advancing Rojas to third, then moved to second on the throw to the plate. Wilkin Castillo was then intentionally walked to load the bases, which was followed by Diaz's game winning single.
The win for Indianapolis helped negate an effective start by the Bats Raisel Iglesias, who went five strong giving up one run on three hits, with three strikeouts and a walk. Louisville catcher Ramon Cabrera also showed off his arm by throwing out two base stealers in one inning. However, those efforts were negated by the bat of Steve Lombardozzi, who continued his hot start to the season, by raising his average to a team leading .423 and driving in his first two runs.
Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk