North Little Rock, AR-In the first extra inning at Dickey-Stephens Park under minor league baseball's new rules, the Arkansas Travelers (28-28) prevailed over the Tulsa Drillers (26-30), 4-3 in 10 innings. The win kept the Travs with a half-game of Springfield for the division lead. Joe DeCarlo hit the walk-off
North Little Rock, AR-In the first extra inning at Dickey-Stephens Park under minor league baseball's new rules, the Arkansas Travelers (28-28) prevailed over the Tulsa Drillers (26-30), 4-3 in 10 innings. The win kept the Travs with a half-game of Springfield for the division lead. Joe DeCarlo hit the walk-off single through a drawn in infield to score pinch-runner Beau Amaral. Arkansas never trailed in the game but saw leads of 2-0 and 3-2 vanish as Tulsa hit a pair of tying solo homers. Matt Festa kept Tulsa from scoring in the top of the 10th inning by inducing a pair of pop-ups after the Drillers bunted to open the inning. Williams Pérez and Daniel Schlereth made their Travs debuts after signing with Seattle as minor league free agents earlier in the day. Perez started and pitched five innings allowing only an unearned run while Schlereth struck out Luke Raley, the only man he faced, to end the top of the seventh.
Moments That Mattered
* Chris Mariscal raced home on a wild pitch to put the Travs up 2-0 with two out in the fourth inning.
* Tulsa tied it at two on a Connor Joe opposite field solo homer in the sixth.
* Eric Filia gave Arkansas the lead back with a hard groundball single up the middle in the seventh.
* Tulsa tied it the next inning on a solo blast by Yusniel Díaz.
* DeCarlo's game-winning hit went up the middle with two on and none out in the 10th.
Notable Travs Performances
* CF Braden Bishop: 2-4, SH
* RF Eric Filia: 2-5, RBI
* 2B Chris Mariscal: 2-5, run
* 3B Joe DeCarlo: 3-5, RBI
* SS Yonathan Mendoza: 2-3, BB, 2 runs
* RHP Williams Perez: 5 IP, 3 H, UER, 2 BB, 6 K
* RHP David McKay: BS, 2 IP, H, R, 2 BB, 6 K, HR
* RHP Matt Festa: Win, IP
Up Next
The Travs and Drillers play a doubleheader on Wednesday night at Dickey-Stephens Park. RH Max Povse (1-1, 4.58) starts game one for Arkansas with game two's starter to be announced. Tulsa counters with RH Logan Bawcom (0-3, 4.43) in game one and RH Parker Curry (0-0, 2.70) in game two. It is a $1 hot dog night and first pitch of game one is at 5:10. The games will also be broadcast on the Sports Animal 920, the First Pitch App, TuneIn radio and milb.tv.
