Goldeyes rally to win season opener
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AMARILLO, Texas — The Winnipeg Goldeyes came back from a seven-run deficit on Friday to win their 2012 American Association season-opening game 14-9 over the Amarillo Sox.
On a hot, dusty and windy opening night, the Goldeyes found out a seven-run deficit doesn’t mean much when the big sticks of catcher Luis Alen and second baseman Matt Cusick are in the lineup.
Alen cracked a three-run home run in the top of the sixth inning and Cusick hit a grand slam in the top of the seventh at Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium before 6,518 fans.
The game took three hours and 43 minutes and saw 12 pitchers go to the mound.
Alen led the Goldeyes with three hits and four RBI while left-fielder Jon Weber had three hits and three RBI. Shortstop Price Kendall and first baseman Yurendell de Caster each scored three runs.
The most runs a Goldeyes team has ever scored on opening day is 15 in 1996.
The Goldeyes and the Sox meet again here tonight at 7 p.m. in the second game of a three-game series.
The temperature at the opening pitch was 34 C, a dry heat with winds gusting up to 40 kilometres per hour. As it cooled off the Goldeyes heated up, scoring 13 straight runs after having trailed 8-1 after four innings.
“We were kind of down, a little shocked, but this isn’t a normal baseball field,” Cusick said, referring to the fact the park has bigger dimensions including a centre-field depth that is 429 feet and the high winds. “You can score in a hurry. But some of the veterans like Weber and de Caster kept us in it. You have to stay mentally tough and focused to play here.”