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It turns out a 90-minute rain delay wasn’t worth the wait for the Lake Erie Crushers. Having zero hits until the seventh inning, the Crushers nearly battled back from a 6-0 deficit, but were defeated by the Schaumburg Boomers, 6-4, on Aug. 17. The Frontier League made sure to get this series finale in with […] ....
Frontier League games don’t reach the 11th inning very often, but the host Crushers lost in sudden-death fashion to the Schaumburg Boomers, 6-5, on Aug. 16. Both teams remained tied at 5-5 after 10 innings, so the Crushers (32-48) got to pick to hit or field in the 11th. Only playing one half inning, the […] ....
The Crushers’ three-game winning streak came to an end Aug. 13 in a 5-3 loss at Florence. Lake Erie (31-47) fell into a 3-0 hole after two innings but rallied with a run in the third then then two more in the top of the eighth and tied the game at 3. The Y’alls (33-45) […] ....
The Crushers spotted visiting Washington one run in the first inning, then cruised to a 5-1 victory on Aug. 10 at Mercy Health Stadium in Avon. Infielder Kenen Irizarry hit his third home run of the season in the third inning to tie the game at 1-1. In the fourth, John Tuccillo gave the Crushers […] ....