Raptors get rolled at home

OGDEN — Usually, after scoring 10 runs on 15 hits, the Raptors would go home smiling. That was not the case Wednesday.

In what looks more like a football score, the Helena Brewers beat Ogden 21-10, racking up 23 hits and scoring multiple runs in six consecutive innings.

Helena's Cole Gillespie tied a Pioneer League record with six hits, going six-for-six with four singles, two doubles, five runs, a walk and two RBI.

Three other Brewers had three hits, and Chris Errecart batted in six men.

Ryan Rogowski and Josh Bell were each a triple short of hitting for the cycle, with both of them hitting a single, double and home run for Ogden.

After falling behind 6-3 after two innings, the Brewers scored 16 of the next 17 runs to bury the Raptors.

Ogden starter Josh Wall — who had a 2.78 ERA going into Wednesday's game — gave up seven runs on six hits in two innings and was tagged with the loss.

The Raptor relievers didn't do much better.

Joe Jones came in next and gave up six runs on eight hits in only two innings. Then Cody White gave up four runs and Kalen Gearhart and Garrett White gave up two more runs each.

Ogden took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first, only to see it erased in Helena's next at-bat when it scored three runs of its own.

The Raptors then took another three-run lead in the bottom of the second, but the Brewers answered with five runs in the next inning to take an 8-6 lead.

After Ogden scored another run in the bottom of the third, Helena scored another five runs in the top of the fourth to take a 13-7 lead.

The Brewers poured on two more runs in four of the next five innings to take as much as a 12-run lead.

The three runs the Raptors scored in the final three innings came too late to make a difference.

Helena's leadoff hitter reached base safely in every inning but the first.

The Raptor pitchers walked in four runs for Helena. All in all, ten Brewer batters came to the plate with the bases loaded.

Five Helena batters were hit by a pitch.

OWLZ 5, OSPREY 4: At Orem, the Orem Owlz paid dearly for a pair of errors Wednesday night, as the Missoula Osprey turned those errors into a pair of unearned runs that proved to be the difference in a 5-4 win.

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