{"id":3657,"date":"2009-06-22T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/armada-snap-five-game-skid-with-narrow-win-over-outlaws\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T05:02:00","slug":"armada-snap-five-game-skid-with-narrow-win-over-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/armada-snap-five-game-skid-with-narrow-win-over-outlaws","title":{"rendered":"Armada Snap Five-Game Skid With Narrow Win Over Outlaws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Report by the Armada’s Josh Feldman<\/span> <\/p>\n

Brandon Howard\u2019s three-run triple provided the winning runs as the Armada snapped a five-game losing streak, topping the Outlaws, 5-4, at Nettleton Stadium on Saturday.  The Armada improves to 10-11 while the Outlaws fall to 13-11.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach surged ahead in the seventh on Howard\u2019s only hit of the night.  J.J. Sherrill led of the inning with a walk, and singles by Andy Bouchie and Steve Young set the table for Howard\u2019s bases-clearing triple to break a tied ballgame and give the Armada a 5-2 lead.    <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Outaws plated two in the bottom of the seventh with RBIs from Jonny Ash and Rich Janeway, making it 5-4 after seven.  <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Starter Ben Fox, making his fourth start of the season, gave up four runs, three earned, and five hits in a winning effort.  Fox (2-0) struck out four, walked two and hit three batters in 6 1\/3 innings of work.  <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Outlaws starter Michael Martin (2-2), making his fifth start of the year, pitched 6 1\/3 innings, giving up five runs on seven hits with three strike outs and two walks.  He was tagged with the loss.  <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Koichi Misawa pitched 1 1\/3 innings of relief, striking out two.  Closer Ryne Tacker pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his fourth save of the season.  <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach got on the board first.  Daryl Jones singled to lead off the second inning, and Matt Edgecombe eventually drove him in for a 1-0 lead.  The Outlaws responded later in the frame when Jason Crosland hit a solo homerun to center field off Ben Fox, tying the game 1-1.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Steve Young drove in J.J. Sherrill, grounding out in the fifth inning, giving the Armada a 2-1 lead.  The Outlaws answered in the sixth when Truan Mehl\u2019s RBI-single scored Bryan Silverman to tie the game, 2-2.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Armada and Outlaws wrap up this three game series on Sunday as Scott Lonergan (2-2) takes the mound for Long Beach against Chico\u2019s Evan White (3-1).  First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm from Nettleton Stadium.   Long Beach then flies to Edmonton for a three game series against the Capitals June 23-25.<\/p>\n

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The Armada started moving back in the right direction with a 5-4 win that improves their record to 10-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}