Caleb Hobson gets game-winning bunt down in 10th, Spokane Indians edge Everett 10-9 | NWL baseball
Apr. 5—An eight-run inning late in the game usually spells doom for the team that gives it up. But on Sunday, the Spokane Indians showed enough resolve after the blow-up not only to tie the game and force extra innings, but win it in once they got there.
Automatic runner Jacob Humphrey scored on a sacrifice bunt by Caleb Hobson — and a throwing error by pitcher Calvin Schapira — in the 10th inning and the Indians edged the Everett AquaSox 10-9 in the finale of a three-game High-A Northwest League series at Avista Stadium. The Indians won two of three to Everett in the season-opening series. Ethan Hedges hit two of the Indians' four solo home runs.
He went 3 for 4 with a double, walk and three RBIs and is 6 for 11 to start the season. Max Belyeu added three hits and two RBIs as the Indians finished with 14 hits, seven for extra bases. "We've got a lot of resilience.
We're never gonna give up," Hobson said. "That's one thing that we preach in the locker room. We're not gonna give up on anything.
Doesn't matter what the score is, we've just gonna give it our best ever every single time. " "That tells you a lot about what kind of guys we have in this clubhouse," Indians manager Tom Sutaris said. "We were in the eighth inning of a one-run game.
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