RAPTORS LAND FINAL BLOW, ADVANCE TO CHAMPIONSHIP
OGDEN, UT - A two-run first inning wasn't enough. Neither were home runs by Andy Pages or Sauryn Lao. Thanks to the Grand Junction Rockies continuing to come back and tie the game, it finally took a mistake for the Ogden Raptors to win and advance to the Pioneer League
OGDEN, UT - A two-run first inning wasn't enough. Neither were home runs by
Thanks to the Grand Junction Rockies continuing to come back and tie the game, it finally took a mistake for the Ogden Raptors to win and advance to the Pioneer League Championship Series.
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The sweep gives Ogden a day off before having to travel to the North division team they'll play in the championship series. Their opponent will be decided Tuesday night in Idaho Falls, where the Chukars and Billings Mustangs face off in the rubber match of their best-of-three series.
Vivas started the rally in the 10th as he was hit by a pitch while pinch-hitting for
The visiting Rockies went on the board first, scoring a run on a sacrifice fly in the top of the first.
In the home half,
Grand Junction bounced right back with a two-out, bases-empty rally in the second, stroking two doubles and a single to go up, 3-2.
The hosts went back in front in the fifth. Arocho drew a two-out walk and Pages laced a 1-1 offering on top of the Tar Pit.
The Raptors held their lead until the eighth, when a single, two wild pitches and a two-out seeing-eye single brought in the tying run.
Lao put Ogden on top again by leading off the home half of the eighth with a blast to left.
In the ninth, the Rockies got another leadoff single, this time against