Spinners come from behind to beat Yankees and take series 6-5

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Much like what happened on Monday night, the Lowell Spinners got themselves into a hole. And like the other night, they found a way to dig out of it and win the ballgame.

Down 4-0 after three the Spinners came back with a five-run fourth inning and held on for a 6-5 win. They take the series and head out on their final road trip feeling good.

Tanner Houck got the start for the Spinners and of late he had been pitching well for the team. He came into this start having not allowed a run in his last two appearances.

On Wednesday night it would be the second inning that would be his undoing, all though it was not all his fault.

With runners on first and second with one down, Welfrin Mateo hit a ground ball to Spinners third baseman Garrett Benge that he booted for an error, his tenth on the season. It would score Timmy Robinson who started the rally with a single to RF. 1-0 Yankees.

Their back to back doubles off of Houck by Kendall Coleman (1 RBI) and Andy Diaz (2 RBI),) staked Staten Island to a 4-0 advantage.

Houck night would be over at innings end and his line of 2 IP, 4 H, 4R did not tell his story. As he said afterward he thought he threw the ball well but errors are a part of the game.

Juan De Paula was on the hill for Staten Island, he breezed through the first three frames retiring eight of the nine hitters he faced.

In the fourth things changed when Frankie Rios singled through the hole into LF. Benge hit what could have been a double play ball but it was mishandled by second baseman Jose Polonia. Juan Barriento was HBP to load the bases and Yoan Aybar came through with a single down the left field line to score two. Barriento was thrown out on the play trying to scramble back to the bag at second, injured his shoulder and left the game.

Next batter up, Nick Hamilton reached on a fielders choice slow ground ball to third scoring Aybar who got to third base on consecutive wild pitches. The game was now 4-3 Yankees and the Spinners were not done. A walk to Raiwinson Lameda reloaded the sack, and Samuel Miranda made De Paula pay by singling to LF to score Lameda to tie the game at 4-4. Yomar Valentin brought home Miranda with another base hit to right and the Spinners had the lead at 5-4.

Another tip of the bat must go to bullpen ace Denyi Reyes who came on after Houck and once again shut the door. He would go four innings giving up just three hits and no runs with three punch outs.

Lowell tacked on an insurance run in the sixth against relief pitcher Chase Hobson. Aybar, with his second hit of the night, was sacrificed to second by Hamilton and then scored on Lameda’s second hit of the night a single to right. 6-4 Spinners.

That extra run would be needed, as Dominic LoBrutton was brought on in the seventh to maintain the cushion for Lowell.

The first man he faced was Coleman who took LoBrutto deep over the wall in right for his second of the year it was now back to a one run game at 6-5.

It would get even more interesting in the ninth when LoBrutto would load the sack full of Yankees, and with two down and the game on the line would face Robinson. He would get Robinson to hit a slow roller to SS that Rios surrounded and threw out Robinson to end the game and give the Spinners the win 6-5.

After the game Manager, Iggy Suarez said he liked the way his team fought, liked the at-bats his lineup gave to get themselves back into the game and take the lead.

He said LoBrutto made it a little difficult in the ninth but he said: “why not”.

The win goes to Reyes now 9-0 out of the Spinners pen, LoBrutto picks up the save his fifth of the year. De Paula takes the loss (4IP, 5H, 5R, 2 ER), and is now 4-5.

The Spinners make their final road trip of the season as they head to Brooklyn for 4 games in three days. A DH is scheduled for Thursday night.