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Hops newcomer L.T. Tolbert's first Hillsboro hit was a single back up the middle in the 10th inning to score Keshawn Lynch and Jorge Perez with the game-winning runs in a 5-4 walk-off win over the Boise Hawks (1-1 second half, 22-18 overall) Wednesday night at Ron Tonkin Field.With the
Hops newcomer L.T. Tolbert's first Hillsboro hit was a single back up the middle in the 10th inning to score
With the victory, the Hops evened the three-game series at a game apiece and improved to 5-1 in extra-inning games this season.
Tolbert, promoted from the Arizona League earlier in the day as part of a flurry of roster moves, was 0-for-3 with a walk when he stepped to the plate to face Boise reliever
The inning began with pinch-runner
In the Hops half of the ninth, still trailing 3-2 and down to their final strike,
Boise plated a run in the top of the tenth on a two-out single up the middle by Harris, scoring Anderson, who had reached on his fourth hit of the night. But Boise lost two runners on the bases in the inning. With runners at the corners and none out, LeeMarcus Boyd hit a fly ball to left field. After Perez caught the ball, McDowell broke for home then stopped a third of the way as the ball sailed over the head of January. McDowell continued toward home, but retreated when Lin backed up the play and quickly got the ball to January in front of the plate. The Hops catcher chased McDowell back towards third where he was eventually tagged out by third baseman
Hillsboro took an early 2-0 lead when Tra Holmes doubled with two outs and scored on a towering Rose home run to left field. Holmes would get an early trip to the showers when he argued balls and strikes during his next at bat and was tossed by home plate umpire Nick McFarland. Perez replaced Holmes at the plate, inheriting a 1-2 count and fanned, but reached base his next three times up before scoring the game-winning run.
Anderson went 4-for-5 at the plate for Boise, hitting his third home run of the season in the sixth inning off
Martinez had two hits for the Hops, his fifth straight game with a hit and third multi-hit game in the last four.
The Hops and Hawks wrap up the three-game series Thursday night. Game time is 7:05 p.m. with the pregame show at 7 p.m. on NBC Sports Northwest Rip City Radio 620 AM and ripcityradio.com.