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Padres No.8 Prospect
Xavier Edwards Records a 3-Hit Night that Includes a Walk-Off Single
in the 10th
By Storm Media
Having
already played 25 times this season, the Storm and the Inland Empire
66ers began their final three-game series in Lake Elsinore on Friday
with an entertaining, back-and-forth contest that saw six different
lead changes, with the home team getting the final say in an 8-7
walk-off win in 10 innings.
The
Storm rallied to tie it at 7-7 in the 10th and then earned their
third walk-off win of the season when SS Xavier Edwards lined
a one-out, RBI single to centerfield that scored Jeisson Rosario
from second base on a close play at the plate for the game winner.
Edwards,
drafted 38th overall in 2018 by San Diego, had his sixth multi-hit
performance in 16 games with the Storm after leading the Midwest
League with a .336 batting average before his promotion.
The
19-year-old from Wellington, Florida went 3-5 with two RBI to pace a
14-hit attack, as 3B Gabriel Arias, LF Esteury Ruiz, RF Jack
Suwinski and Rosario had two hits apiece to help the Storm end a
three-game losing streak and win for the fifth time in their last six
games at The Diamond.
Lake
Elsinore struck first in the first on Arias' 10th home run of the
season, an opposite field shot to right-center that gave RHP Caleb
Boushley a 2-0 advantage.
Inland
Empire scored an unearned run in the third and added two in the fifth
to take their first lead of the game, but the Storm answered with an
RBI single from Edwards in the bottom of the fifth to tie things at
3-3. One inning later, after Suwinski's lead-off triple, 2B Ruddy
Giron singled to right to make it 4-3 Storm.
The
66ers plated three runs in the seventh, but Suwinski and 1B Olivier
Basabe had two-out RBI singles in the bottom of the inning to tie
the game 6-6, setting the stage for the extra innings heroics from
Edwards and the Storm. RHP Jordan Guerrero went 2.1 IP in
relief, striking out two and allowing no earned runs to earn his
first California League victory. The Storm improved to 15-11 on the
season against the Angels' affiliate.
Lake
Elsinore is 53-51 overall and 18-18 in the second half, three games
behind Rancho Cucamonga and Lancaster in the South Division with 34
games to play.
Noteworthy:
RHP
Jordan Guerrero: 2.1 innings, first win with the Storm, zero
earned runs, zero walks, two strikeouts
2B
Xavier Edwards: 3-5, two RBI (3), one run, game-winning hit in
the 10th, five-game hitting streak
SS
Gabriel Arias: 2-4, one home run (10), two RBI (51), has hit
in 11 of 12
RF
Jack Suwinski: 2-4, one triple (3), one RBI (40), two runs,
six-game hitting streak
LF
Esteury Ruiz: 2-4, one RBI,(33), one stolen base (32), one
run, one walk
CF
Jeisson Rosario: 2-5, three-game hitting streak, scored
game-winning run
WP:
Jordan Guerrero (1-3)
LP:
Luke Lind (0-1)
HR:
LE: Arias (10th, two-run, B1) | IE: None
On
Deck:
On
Country Night, Saturday, July 27 at 6:00pm, LHP Osvaldo Hernandez
makes his 6th Cal League start and his first against the 66ers, who
counter with RHP Travis Herrin.
The series concludes on
Sunday, July 28 at 5:00pm with a Strike Out Cancer Hat Giveaway,
presented by Waba Grill, to the first 1,000 guests at The Diamond.
For the best available seats buy online at stormbaseball.com or call
951-245-4487.
Press Release Provided
By the Lake Elsinore Storm
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