RSSNWL -- Bears' rally falls short
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KEIZER, Ore. -- The Bears rallied twice to tie the score Friday night against Salem-Keizer, but couldn't repeat the feat in the ninth inning and dropped their second successive one-run decision to the Volcanoes, 6-5.
Yakima, at 1-3, will complete its five-game series here tonight, then bus home for Sunday night's season home-opener against Vancouver.
The visitors trailed 2-0 in the second inning when Ramon Castillo hit a two-run homer to left.
SK regained the lead with a run in the bottom of the inning, and the Bears once again got even in the top of the sixth on Victor Estevez's RBI double.
This time, however, the Volcanoes responded with a three-run outburst that proved too much for Yakima to overcome.
Damon Wright's run-scoring triple, a sacrifice fly by Dan Cook and Caleb Curry's RBI double -- all of Daniel Vasquez -- made it 6-3.
The Bears cut the margin to two with a run in the eighth when Collin Cowgill doubled, Alfredo Marte singled with Cowgill holding third, and Cowgill scored when Anthony Smith grounded into a double play.
In the ninth, Jimmy Principe led off with a double and Ryan Babineau scored him with a single to center. Babineau moved to second on the throw to the plate.
After a pitching change, pinch-hitter Andrew Fie popped out to first, and after Brendan Duffy supplanted Babineau as a pinch-runner, Duffy took third on a wild pitch by Edwin Quirarte.
But Quirarte struck out both David Cooper and Cowgill to end it.
Principe, Smith, Marte and Cooper had two hits each for Yakima, which out-hit the Volcanoes 12-9. But for the second straight night, Salem-Keizer pitchers issued no walks.
