Goldeyes in tough spot after loss to Saints
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This article was published 19/08/2019 (2271 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
In countries around the world, seven is known as a magic number.
For the Winnipeg Goldeyes, seven is their tragic number.
Following Monday night’s 8-5 loss to the St. Paul Saints at Shaw Park, any combination of Saints wins and Goldeyes losses totalling seven means Winnipeg will be out of playoff contention for the 2019 season.
That stat doesn’t even account for what Winnipeg needs to do to finish above the Chicago Dogs, who are currently in third place in the American Association’s North Division standings.
After Monday’s game, the Goldeyes were 3½ games back of Chicago.
The Goldeyes team playing at Shaw Park on Monday night was a stark contrast from the squad fans were accustomed to watching over the past two weeks of July and early August.
All night, the Goldeyes struggled offensively.
The Fish outhit the Saints 12-6, but just couldn’t turn those hits into runs.
Goldeyes veteran Reggie Abercrombie was one of the players who had a “better” night in comparison to the rest of the team — and he had just two hits.
“We didn’t get the job done. I came up in the first inning, didn’t get the job done. Came up in the sixth inning, didn’t get the job done. I’ll take the blame for it, everything. I came up in a bunch of clutch situations, in situations that we got to hit in and just didn’t get a hit,” Abercrombie said.
The Saints opened up the scoring in the first and tacked on four more runs in the second.
The Fish rallied for four runs in the third, but the Saints stole the show from there.
The only other run the Goldeyes put up on the board was in the sixth.
“It’s hard, any time you lose to anybody at home. We gotta go on the road, gotta do what we gotta do, we gotta win. That’s the bottom line. We gotta win, hope they lose and just keep playing baseball,” Abercrombie said.
The Goldeyes have today off and begin a do-or-die series on the road against the Dogs on Wednesday.
devon.shewchuk@freepress.mb.ca Twitter: @devonshewchuk