Drillers Come Back to Top Corpus Christi Late

The Hooks went up big in the middle of the game, but Tulsa came roaring back in the seventh.

Thursday, May 26th 2011, 12:20 pm

By: News On 6

Drillers Come Back to Top Corpus Christi Late

Originally Published: Apr 15, 2011 10:53 PM CDT

Gerald Goodridge
Oklahoma Sports Staff Writer

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Corpus Christi put a five-run inning on the board, but the Drillers made that big frame immaterial with a five-run inning of their own to top the Hooks 9-6 Friday.

Trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the fourth, Corpus Christi (2-6) strung together a few doubles to record their five-run inning. J.D. Martinez lead off with a walk and two batters later, Brandon Barnes doubled to right field to bring him home. David Flores followed with a line-drive double to left field to bring barnes home.

Two at-bats later with Flores and Andrew Simunic on first, Ross Seaton sent one over the right field wall to score three and push the advantage to 6-4.

However, Tulsa (4-4) had some work of its own to do, responding in the bottom of the seventh.

After back-to-back singles to lead off the inning, Darin Holcomb knocked a ground-ball single to center field to bring Hector Gomez home and move Ben Paulsen to second. Wilin Rosario followed with a triple to right field to bring Holcomb and Paulsen to retake the lead 7-6. Two batters later, James Cesario singled to left field to bring Rosario home and make it a two-run advantage.

Tim Wheeler capped off the scoring with a line-drive single to center field to bring James Cesario home to give Tulsa a 9-6 lead.

Stephen Dodson (2-0) came away with a win for the outing, giving up just one hit in his three innings of service for the Drillers. Shane Wolf (0-1) was credited with the loss for the Hooks after allowing five earned runs on seven hits in just 1.2 innings of service.

The series will be decided at 7:05 p.m. Saturday in game three of the series.