THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 3, 1995 TAG: 9506030446
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MARK NAEGELE, CORRESPONDENT
DATELINE: COLUMBUS, OHIO LENGTH: Medium: 53 lines
After blowing leads four times in the first 10 innings, Norfolk scored five times in the top of the 12th to post a 13-9 victory over the host Columbus Clippers in International League play Friday night.
Bill Spiers, whose error in the bottom of the 10th inning allowed Columbus to tie the game, delivered a bases-loaded single through the left side of a drawn-in infield with none out in the 12th for the go-ahead run. Spiers was 0 for 4, hitting into two double plays, before his game-winner.
The Tides added runs on an error, a wild pitch and Ricky Otero's two-run triple.
Phil Stidham, the fourth Norfolk pitcher, got his first win, allowing one run in two innings. Columbus' Jeff Patterson was tagged for all five runs and the loss.
It looked like Norfolk would make short work of Columbus starter Mark Hutton. Carl Everett's two-run triple and a sacrifice fly by Derek Lee gave the Tides a 3-0 lead in the first inning.
But Hutton settled down after that, retiring 11 Norfolk batters in a row in one stretch.
Tides starter Chris Roberts, meanwhile, began the game with 14 consecutive scoreless innings against the Clippers. He stretched the streak to 16 1/3 before Russ Davis' bases-load double tied the score at 3-3 in the third.
Columbus took a 4-3 lead on Carlton Flemming's RBI single in the fourth. But Norfolk went back in front on a Tracy Sanders three-run homer to rightfield following singles by Aaron Ledesma and Carl Everett.
Columbus tied it at 6-6 in the sixth on Bubba Carpenter's two-run, inside-the-park homer.
Ledesma's fielder's choice scored Otero for a 7-6 Norfolk lead in the seventh, but Rich Barnwell's single off Peter Walker's leg brought home Carpenter with two out in the eighth.
Norfolk had a chance to win it in the 10th when Butch Huskey's infield single scored Everett, but Carpenter tripled and scored on Spiers' error in the bottom of the inning.
Everett and Ledesma had three hits apiece in the Tides' 17-hit attack. Carpenter went 4 for 6 with a homer, two triples, a single, four runs scored and two RBI. ILLUSTRATION: BOX SCORE
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