Sox drop home opener
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The Brantford Red Sox will look to rebound on Thursday from a tough weekend.
Opening the home portion of their Intercounty Baseball League season on Sunday at Arnold Anderson Stadium, the Sox were beaten 7-2 by the Guelph Royals. That game followed a 12-11 loss Brantford suffered in London on Friday.
The Red Sox (1-2) will have three chances to snap their losing streak this week with road games in Welland on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and in Barrie on Saturday at 2 p.m. The team then returns home on Sunday for a 2 p.m. game against Kitchener at Arnold Anderson Stadium.
Brantford made five errors in the game against Guelph with Chris Iltshishin as the only batter with two hits.
Anthony Rizquez did get three walks while scoring a run while Nick Zarzycki walked twice and was credited with an RBI.
Victor Mueses suffered the loss, allowing three runs on five hits with six strikeouts and five walks in five innings of work.
Brantford took an early 4-2 lead on London before falling behind 9-5 after seven innings. Although the Red Sox scored four times in the eighth inning and the two teams exchanged a pair of runs in the 10th, Brantford lost on a solo home run by London in the 12th.
Once again errors were an issue as the Red Sox committed six. That meant only six of London’s 12 runs were earned.
Quinton Bent (three hits, two runs), Fernando Suarez (3H, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB) and Zarzycki (2H, 2R, 1RB) were the offensive leaders for Brantford.
The Sox used four pitchers with Matt McGovern eventually tagged with the loss after throwing a solid four innings.
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