NEWSLETTER
The Iowa Cubs better celebrate with a shrimp cocktail. (That is a shrimp reference, which is one of the best and silliest baseball references – a walk-off walk is a shrimp. Who knows why.)
The Triple-A squad entered this afternoon’s 9th inning against the Columbus Clippers down 8-6. Franco Aleman took the mound for the Guardian’s affiliate hoping to close things out. Things looked good after he caught Luis Vazquez swinging. But then the wheels fell off.
David Peralta doubled to left field, which was immediately followed by a David Bote line drive. Then, with the score just 8-7, Aleman had to be removed from the game due to injury. Columbus had already run through SIX pitchers in this game, and they apparently had only outfielder Lorenzo Cedrola available to pitch at that point.
For a brief second there, it looked like Cedrola might actually get out of it. He forced Ali Sanches into an infield pop-up, but his luck ran out there. Jake Slaughter was hit by a pitch and Darius Hill walked to load the bases. Cedrola proceeded to walk a pinch-hitting Curt Casali to force the game-tying run to home plate. Four straight balls later to Matt Mervis, the Iowa Cubs had a walk-off 9-8 victory!
Just how they drew it up! No video yet, but I’ll keep looking. I love a walk-off-walk.
In case you missed it, Owen Caissie also hit a BOMB in this one …
