The Casper Ghosts scored 10 runs in the first four inning on Tuesday night to take a 10-2 lead against the Helena Brewers, but they slowly allowed Helena to comeback and tie the game at 10 in the 8th sending the game to extra innings. The Ghosts would win the game 11-10 in eleven innings, their first win in extra innings in five tries.
Matt Miller, the league leader in wins, the holder of the league’s fourth best ERA started for the Brewers, and he allowed a first inning run, but the Ghosts blew the game open in the second. Six consecutive batters singled, and all 6 scored to make it 7-0.
Helena would add a couple of runs in the bottom of the inning to get on the board, but again, the Ghosts went back to work with three runs in the fourth. The first came on Rafael Ortega’s fifth homer of the season, and later in the inning Robert De La Cruz doubled in two runs to make it 10-2.
In the bottom of the fourth with a run in, Cody Hawn doubled in two runs to cut the lead to 10-5, and they brought the lead down to four after an error in the sixth.
The Brewers rallied in the seventh with two outs and scored two runs to make it a 10-8 game, and they tied it in the 8th on a 2-run homer by Brandon Sizemore.
That sent the game to extra innings, and both teams traded zeroes in the tenth, but that changed in the eleventh.
With one out, Ryan Casteel reached first when second baseman Shea Vucinich dropped a pop up. Jeff Squier was brought off the bench as a pinch runner. He stole second, and he scored on a close play at the plate after a Yafistel Roja single.
Taylor Reid threw a scoreless ninth for his first save of the season.
The Ghosts earn a split of the first two games of the series against Helena. The two teams will play game three on Wednesday night. First pitch is set for 7:05.
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