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Via the Bandits:
BANDITS SECURE SERIES WIN WITH 5-4 VICTORY OVER BLUE SOX
BRISBANE, QLD — The Brisbane Bandits earned their eighth series win of the season with a 5-4 win over the Sydney Blue Sox Saturday night at Viticon Stadium.
Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the first, Bob Moore blasted his seventh home run of the season to tie the game, 1-1, and Logan Wade brought home another run with an RBI single to make it 2-1 a few moments later.
The Bandits never squandered the lead, adding three more runs in the next two innings to take a 5-1 lead. Tim Atherton bolstered the offense, allowing only two runs on 5.1 innings pitched.
The Blue Sox scored their second run in the sixth inning on a bases loaded hit by pitch to make it 5-2. Sydney then pulled to within one run in the seventh on a Jase Bowen two-run home run. Leading just 5-4, Brisbane then inserted Carter Hope and James Meeker into the game for the eighth and ninth innings, and both relievers shut down Sydney to wrap up a 5-4 win.
The Bandits, now 28-7, are three wins away from clinching the best regular season record in modern ABL history and will face Sydney once more in the series finale at home.
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Moore also walked as part of his 1-for-4 night.
Lefty-swinging catcher Darrien Miller clubbed his 12th double, singled, and drove in a run, going 2-for-4.
Meeker's 0.00 ERA remains intact, he walked one and K'd two to close out his 11th save.