August 26, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY - The Washington Wild Things(39-51) won a seesaw affair over the Florence Freedom (51-39) Sunday night to avoid a three game sweep by the score of 7-5. <\/p>\n
There were three ties at 1-1, 3-3, and 5-5 however it was Washington getting a clutch hit in the 9th to give them the win. <\/p>\n
The Freedom took an early 1-0 lead in the 1st inning on a Peter Fatse SAC fly. Washington matched the Freedom with a solo homerun from Mark Samuelson. <\/p>\n
The Wild Things then took a 2-1 lead in the 3rd on an RBI single by Gus Benusa. They stretched the lead to 3-1 on another Samuelson solo homer in the 4th. <\/p>\n
The Freedom's Junior Arrojo then tied the game in the 5th with his two run homerun, his second homer of the series and his fifth of the season. <\/p>\n
The Freedom retook the lead in the 6th with a two out two run double by David Harris. <\/p>\n
With the Freedom leading 5-3 in the 7th, the Wild Things began to chip away at the Freedom bullpen. AJ Nunziato delivered a SAC fly to cut the lead to 5-4. Then in the 8th, Samuelson provided a SAC fly to tie the game at 5-5. <\/p>\n
With the game on the line in the 9th, with two runners aboard it was Samuelson again delivering the blow. He lined a two run single over first baseman Drew Rundle to give the Wild Things a 7-5 lead. Samuelson went 3-5 against his former team with two homers and had 5 RBI's. <\/p>\n
The Freedom attempted to rally in the 9th against closer Orlando Santos. Fatse drew a two out walk, but Eddie Rodriguez struck out swinging to end the ballgame. <\/p>\n
Jhonny Montoya (3-3) earned the win out of Washington's bullpen pitching 2.2 innings of scoreless baseball. Ian Durham (1-2) suffered the loss as Santos notched his 10th save. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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