Saints swept in doubleheader, go winless against PawSox
· Yahoo Sports
As far as home-opening series go, this past week’s CHS Field debut for the St. Paul Saints was certainly one to forget.
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The Saints returned home last Tuesday undefeated after opening the campaign with three wins at Indianapolis. However, that night’s 19-3 massacre against visiting Worchester was a harbinger of things to come. As the calendar turns to a new week tomorrow, St. Paul heads back out on the road on a five-game losing streak and a 3-5 record.
Sunday saw the Woo Sox finish off a sweep of the week by taking both games of a series-concluding doubleheader, winning the opening game 4-2 before taking the nightcap 11-9 in 10 innings. As per the norm in International League play, both games of the twinbill were scheduled to be seven inning affairs.
St. Paul led Game 1 by a score of 2-0 on a Kaelen Culprepper home run in the first inning and an RBI triple by Orlando Arcia in the second. The edge held until the seventh, when Worchester slapped four runs on the board in their final turn at-bat to snatch a sudden triumph. Reliever Dan Altaville was charged for four earned runs and took the loss.
The shoe was on the other foot in Game 2, as the WooSox took a 7-1 lead after two innings. The Saints chipped away at the deficit, but still trailed 7-6 with two outs and no one on in the seventh until Alan Roden smacked a 427-foot homer to knot the score and send the contest to “extra innings.”
Worchester reclaimed the lead at 8-7 in the ninth, but Roden struck again with an RBI single that plated Eric Wagaman to again draw the hosts even and keep the game rolling.
However, the Saints didn’t have a third rally left in them. The WooSox scored twice more in the 10th, and the hill proved too much for the local nine to climb. St. Paul had two on with nobody out, but a harmless fly ball and a double play ended the affair after three hours of play and another Worchester victory clinched.
Winless at home in five tries, the Saints pack up for a trip to Columbus and a series against the Clippers starting on Tuesday.