On Friday night, the Palm Beach Cardinals and Dunedin Blue Jays faced off in the first game of a three game series, with the end result being Dunedin snapping Palm Beach’s six game winning-streak in a 8-7 victory in 10 innings. The following night, the two teams met again in game two. Once again, the game went into extra innings.
Unfortunately, once again, the Cardinals also fell to the Blue Jays.
It took until the 13th inning, but the Blue Jays finally broke a 2-2 tie in order for them to hand the Cardinals their second straight loss, dropping them to 7-3 on the year, as Dunedin improves to 6-4.
Dunedin scored their first two runs of the game, interestingly enough, in the first two innings, Palm Beach’s shortstop Oscar Mercado committed an error at the beginning of both the first and second innings, and the result came back to hurt to the Cardinals.
In the first inning, an RBI single by third baseman Jason Leblebijian made it 1-0, and later, another RBI-single by Danny Jansen.
Palm Beach got nearly seven scoreless innings from their bullpen of scoreless baseball. That was until LHP Michael Heesch allowed the game-winning single to Richard Urena in the bottom of the 13th inning. As for their closer, Kevin Herget struck out six in his nearly-four innings of no-hit baseball. This is the second straight loss for the Palm Beach Cardinals, who still are one of the top teams in the Florida State League.
The two teams will square off once again on Sunday afternoon at 1:00.
Conner Greene will get the starting nod for Dunedin while Palm Beach will go with Matt Pearce on the mound. According to the official Dunedin Blue Jays website, kids 12 and under get in free at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium with a paying adult present with them.
