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Skid Continues as GreenJackets Fall in Extras

April 17, 2012 - South Atlantic League (SAL1)
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Augusta, GA - The Charleston RiverDogs scored four times in the 11th inning to break a 3-3 tie and come away with a 7-3 win over the Augusta GreenJackets on Tuesday night. The RiverDogs won their fourth straight while the GreenJackets losing skid reached five games with the setback.

After Casey Stevenson's leadoff single in the 11th, Tyler Austin reached on a fielding error to push the go-ahead run in scoring position. Kelby Tomlinson made a diving stop on Gary Sanchez's grounder to short but his throw to second went wide of the bag to allow Stevenson to score the go-ahead run. The RiverDogs took a 5-3 lead on Reymond Nunez's RBI infield dribbler and they doubled that lead on Anderson Feliz's two-run single.

In the last of the 11th, Phillip Wetherell (1-0) retired the side in order to finish his three scoreless innings of no-hit baseball and preserve the win for Charleston.

For the fifth day in a row, Augusta's opponent led first as the RiverDogs drew first blood on Ben Gamel's two-run, third inning double. That was just about the only blemish on the line of Clayton Blackburn, who fired a career-high six innings. Blackburn allowed two runs on four hits and a walk while striking out six - tying his season-best.

Augusta finally broke through against Charleston reliever Wilton Rodriguez in the seventh inning. In his third inning of work, Rodriguez surrendered a leadoff double to Chuckie Jones. After Joe Staley drew a walk, Michael Mergenthaler attempted to bunt the runners into scoring position. Rodriguez's errant throw scored Jones to pull Augusta to within a run. Rodriguez's wild pitch to Carlos Willoughby brought home Staley to tie the game and moved Mergenthaler to third, where he scored on Willoughby's sacrifice fly to give Augusta a 3-2 seventh-inning lead.

In the eighth, Dante Bichette Jr. broke the deadlock with an RBI single to tie the game at three on the second of three hits in the inning. The GreenJackets had runners at second and third in the ninth with two outs but a groundout sent the game to extras.

Andrew Berger (0-1) was the hard-luck loser for the GreenJackets, pitching in an 11th inning that saw two errors by his defense and an RBI single against him that didn't leave the infield.

The GreenJackets send Chris Marlowe (1-0, 0.00) to the mound in an attempt to avoid the sweep in the series and homestand finale. He'll face Charleston's Bryan Mitchell (0-1, 2.25). First pitch comes at 7:05 p.m. with radio pregame coverage beginning at 6:50 p.m. on ESPN Radio 1340 AM and online at www.greenjacketsbaseball.com.

Single-game tickets for any GreenJackets home game are currently available by calling the GreenJackets front office at 706-922-WINS and online at www.greenjacketsbaseball.com.

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