LEBRON HITS WINNING SHOT

For over a decade, the name "Lebron" has been intertwined with the word "clutch" on the basketball court.
Apparently, that now extends to the baseball diamond.
Ogden Raptors center fielder Rolando Lebron hit a walk-off home run to lead off the bottom of the ninth Sunday, powering his team to a 7-6 win over Grand Junction. It was his third RBI of the game, after he came through with a two-run triple in the fourth that put the Raptors ahead until the eighth.
The win is the third straight to start the 2019 season against the visiting Rockies, who beat Ogden in the 2018 Pioneer League playoffs.
The first few frames of the matinee were similar to Saturday's wild 12-11 Raptors win, in which the lead changed hands or was tied 8 different times.
Grand Junction's Eddy Diaz opened the game with a triple, and he promptly scored on a wild pitch.
The Raptors matched that and more, with Sam McWilliams hitting a single and scoring on Sauryn Lao's double. A balk later scored Lau, and Justin Yurchak, who walked, came across on Marco Hernandez's sacrifice fly.
Single unearned runs in the third and fourth allowed the visitors to tie the game, but Andrew Shaps walked and Moises Perez singled to set up Lebron's triple in the fourth. He was plated on an Andy Pages double for a 6-3 lead.
Ogden's bullpen held off the Rockies until the eighth, when a single, double and two-out blast tied things up going into the ninth, but Lebron led off and hammered a 1-2 pitch onto the Tar Pit in left field to end the game.
The Raptors and Rockies play the finale of their season-opening four-game set on Monday at 7 PM. It's the first mini-Monday of the season, with the first 500 fans through the gates receiving a mini bobblehead of former Raptors pitcher Caleb Ferguson, presented by John Chevalier's Collision Centerz!