It looked like Storm’s offensive struggles were coming to an end against the Isotopes, as Duran launched a solo home run far into the night sky in the first at bat of the night. Storm added two more to score three, which was a more productive inning than most of their innings in the first game. The Isotopes kept it close with two of their own, but Storm held on to their lead.
The drought started to return in the second as Storm only mustered one run. The Isotopes had a nuclear explosion scoring six and taking the lead. Storm would not be deterred. They rallied and scored the max six powered by a series of singles as they nearly batted through the order.
It looked as if Storm had finally figured things out. They kept the Isotopes to only one run in the third and blanked them in the fourth to carry an 11-9 lead into the fifth. The fifth inning has been an inning that has been good to Storm most of the season, but on September 5 it was a very bad inning. The Isotopes trailed 12-9 when they came to the plate, and while they didn’t score 9 like the Falcons had, they hit the ball well enough to force a pitching change and to take the lead 14-12.
Storm’s hitting drought continued and Storm was only able to score one run in the final two frames. Joey came to the plate as the tying run in the seventh inning, but because Duran had hit two solo home runs, Joey had to keep it in the park, which he did making the score 14-13, but that was as close as Storm would come.
Storm clearly likes suspense. First place had seemingly been wrapped up for a while, but with four losses in the last six games, including being swept in two separate doubleheaders, Storm now needs to win at least two of the last three games to clinch first place.
Storm 13 - Isotopes 14
Boxscore | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total |
Isotopes | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | x | 14 |
Storm | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
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