Blue Jays Win After Wild Comeback, Take Series Opener

A beautiful night for baseball in Dunedin started about as ugly as it possibly could

have for the Blue Jays. Through three and a half innings, Dunedin found themselves

down 10-0, hadn’t recorded a base hit, and was already into their bullpen after the

Tampa Tarpon lineup looked unstoppable. The Tarpons scored three in the first, two in

the second, one in the third, and four in the fourth off of nine hits and two Dunedin

errors.

Going into the home half of the fourth, and down double digits, the bats needed

to wake up to make it a game again. And wake up they sure did. The Blue Jays offense

exploded in the fourth inning, recording seven hits, nine runs, two 3-run home runs off

the bats of Francisco Fajardo and Gabby Martinez, sending fourteen total batters to the

plate. After trailing by ten, all of TD Ballpark struggled to pick their jaws up off the floor

as the Tarpons finally escaped the inning, seeing their monstrous lead dwindle down to

a single run in no time flat.

It didn’t stop either. Dunedin could sense the blood in the water, and the bats

kept going. Glenn Santiago hit his first home run of the season in the fifth inning, a two

run shot off of Tampa reliever Ryan Anderson, to give Dunedin an 11-10 lead. Just an

inning later, Rainer Nunez joined the home run party hitting a solo shot off of Danny

Watson, tying St Lucie’s Carlos Dominguez for the league lead with 8 on the year.

An outstanding comeback to start the series, earning Dunedin’s 10th win of the

season, that will be sure to stick in the back of the team’s mind going forward and

hopefully give everyone a huge boost of confidence at the dish.