Fun Baseball

The Cats played their second game against the Tacoma Raniers tonight and in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, Brooks Conrad belted a 2 run homer just inside the foul line to win the game. That puts the Cats 12 1/2 games up on the 51s while the Salt Lake Bees are up 5 on the Raniers. We have two more games at home against the Raniers and then a long road trip to finish up over Labor Day weekend against the Grizzlies. That resets the magic number for the Southern Division at 4 (wins by the Cats or losses by Las Vegas).

Gregorio Petit finally had a good night at home - going 4 for 4. In eight innings Brad Knox had 74 strikes on 104 pitches and allowed only 4 hits. The Raniers got 5 hits to our 13 but until Conrad bopped that one out - they were the more efficient team. We left 10 on base to their 2. But you cannot beat that finish!