Missed Opportunities Cost Bees Again

(Shortstop Trey Adams drives an rbi single to center)

In a game of opportunities, Quincy made the best of them with a two run home run in the fourth inning and a three run bomb in the eighth.  Burlington stranded 12 runners, including leaving the bases load in the seventh and the eighth inning and wound up on the short end of a 7-3 score.

Garrett Moltzan started for the Bees.  He went five full innings, giving up 4 runs (3 earned) while striking out four.  He issued no walks.  He took the loss to go 1-1 on the season in his fourth start.

Burlington, down 2-1 in the second, cut the deficit in half when Oscar Ponce lined a single up the middle for his first hit as a Bee.  After a strikeout, Ryan Grace launched a double off the top of the right field wall to put runners on second and third. Another strikeout ensued before Trey Adams collected his seventh RBI of the season on a sharp ground single to center.

With two out and a runner on first in the Gems fourth, third baseman Lucas Loos launched a Moltzan offering on the left field wall to make the score 4-1.

It would remain that way until the top of the eighth, when Quincy catcher Jonathan Latham also homered to left.  That shot came off Bees reliever CJ Lewis with two on.

Burlington pushed across a single run on an RBI single by Adams in the bottom of the frame, but they left the bases loaded.  It was 7-2 Gems heading into the ninth.

Jaxon Ingram held Quincy in check.  Kevin Santiago drove a Daniel Hargrave pitch to the wall in left for the first out.  Marcos Sanchez pinch hit for Joey Fitzgerald, and in his first Bees at bat of the year drove a monster fly over the right field wall to make it 7-3.  Another fly to the wall and a strike out ended the game.