Drillers Pour 15 Runs On Springfield

The Drillers scored eight runs in the fifth and five more in the sixth to run away from the Cardinals Monday night.

Monday, May 6th 2013, 11:58 pm

By: News On 6

The Tulsa used an eight-run fifth inning to clobber the Cardinals 15-4 in Springfield Monday night.

Tulsa (15-15) got solo homers from Kiel Roling and Kent Matthes to take a 2-0 lead into the fifth.

Jose Gonzalez led off the Drillers' huge inning with a solo shot to left field to go up 3-0. The fifth saw 13 Tulsa batters come to the plate, with four singles and three doubles and ended the inning with a 10-0 lead.

As if that wasn't enough, the Drillers broke the bats out again in the sixth. Delta Cleary's two-run double highlighted a five-run sixth inning as the Drillers took a whopping 15-0 lead.

The Cardinals added four runs down the stretch but it was way too little, way too late.

Tim Gustafson (1-2) pitched six innings, allowing just one run to earn his first win of the year. Anthony Ferrara (2-3) allowed seven runs in 4.1 innings.

Tulsa will go for the series split Tuesday at 11:09 a.m.