Spartanburg shortstop Tanner Rogers leaps to avoid Inman runner James Deal at second base on Friday night at Duncan Park.
TIM KIMZEY/tim.kimzey@shj.com
Published: Friday, June 28, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 12:29 a.m.
The Spartanburg Post 28 hitters suddenly became the least of Inman pitcher Bradley Gentry's concerns Friday evening as weather became a far greater opponent.
Facts
Gaffney 7, Union 3
Gaffney moved to a just a half-game out of second place in Legion Six on Friday night with a 7-3 win at home against Union.
Grant McKinney pitched seven strong innings in relief, allowing only six hits and two runs while striking out five. Bradley Norman went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and Will Byars was 2-for-4 with a run batted in. For Union, Juawan Rice was 3-for-5, while Larecus Hughes and A.J. Hunter each had a pair of hits.
Gaffney (5-6) trails Spartanburg (5-5) in a tight race for second. Inman (9-2) leads the way. Greer is 5-7 and Union dropped to 3-7. Four of the five teams will make the playoffs.
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The lefty was racing against time to get one more out and make it an official game as the rain rapidly worsened. His Post 45 squad led 7-2 with two outs in the bottom of the fifth with a runner on first and a 3-1 count on the batter when play was suspended and never resumed.
Inman coach Steve Skinner later spoke by phone with Post 28 athletics officer John Barron and was told a decision on whether to restart the game over or resume it from point of stoppage wouldn't be made until this morning. Skinner said it was home team Spartanburg's decision on how to proceed. Neither Barron nor Spartanburg coach Barry Keith could be reached for further comment.
?To stop a ballgame just because it's raining, with no lightning and two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning is really unbelievable,? Skinner said. ?It is disappointing because we've had rain every day for the past two or three weeks and everybody is behind in the schedule and it ain't really a matter of whether you're winning or losing it's trying to get ball games in.?
Spartanburg scored twice in the second on Bradley Scrugg's two-run single before Inman responded with a seven-run fourth that put Gentry into hyper-mode with the rain rapidly arriving.
?I was trying to rush a little bit out there, but it was hard to do much of anything at that point because you could barely see the (catcher's) signs and the ball was soaking wet.?
Inman sent 13 batters to the plate in the fourth and took advantage of some sloppy Post 28 fielding with key hits. Shortstop Drew Lipscomb had a two-run double and Cory Cremonese barely missed homering for a third consecutive game with an RBI-double off the top of the left-field wall.
?Everybody has probably had their times where it just looks like a volleyball up there at the plate and when you see it just seems like you can't miss,? Cremonese said.
Inman challenged for more, but left the bases loaded to end both the fourth and fifth frames.
?Hitting is contagious and we've been doing a good job of putting the ball in play and capitalizing on our opponent's errors,? Lipscomb said. ?We've been hitting it good from top to bottom of the lineup.?
Source: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20130628/articles/130629624
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