Leehey Launches Pair of Homers, Ballers Win Fourth Straight
Oakland Wins Series with Final Game Tomorrow
By Nevada Cullen
MARYSVILLE, Calif. -- Nick Leehey left the yard twice in Oakland's 10-6 win against the Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers on Saturday. With their fourth consecutive victory, the Ballers clinched a road series win over their rivals.
Christian Almanza broke the franchise single-season record for runs batted in, picking up his 72nd RBI with a check-swing single in the third. He broke a tie with Noah Martinez and Dondrei Hubbard, who each collected 71 RBI last year.
In Leehey's third plate appearance of the evening, he popped out to right field (or so I thought). Instead, the ball carried over the right-field wall for a two-out, two-run big fly to extend Oakland's advantage to 6-1 in the fourth.
Then in the seventh, Leehey led off the inning with his second opposite-field dinger of the contest. Leehey has a pair of multi-homer games this season, his first being a three-homer game on the road against the Rocky Mountain Vibes.
Gabe Tanner got the start on the mound for the Ballers and improved to 5-0 this season. He navigated traffic throughout his five innings of work, stranding 10 High Wheelers in that span.
Adam Bogosian followed Tanner with a couple of scoreless frames. Bogosian punched out a pair and refused to surrender a hit, facing just one more than the minimum.
The Ballers piled on three insurance runs in the eighth. Tremayne Cobb Jr. plated two with a base hit up the gut, and Leehey scored him to collect his fourth RBI of the night and balloon the lead to 10-2.
Yuba-Sutter rallied for four runs over the final two innings. But, Connor Sullivan entered in the ninth and stopped the bleeding with a couple of strikeouts to seal Oakland's fourth straight win.
First pitch for the series finale against the High Wheelers is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. PDT Sunday. As always, you can listen to the action on 860 AM The Answer and on the Oakland Ballers YouTube channel.
