Train Falls to Newnan

In spite of 3 hit performances by Saxton Butler, Chandler Tyree, Keegan Lambeth, and Steven Groves, the Big Train fell 7-8 to the Newnan Braves on Tuesday. The Train plays Columbus on Friday and Cobb on Saturday. Everyone is encouraged to come out and support the team.

NEWNAN NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Newnan Braves earn wild victory in extra innings
By Stuart Crosby
The Times-Herald
Edmond Sparks to scored the winning run from third on a wild pitch with nobody out in the bottom of the eleventh inning to give the Newnan Braves an 8-7 victory over the Alabama Big Train in a Great South League baseball game played Tuesday night at Northgate High School.
WIth the game tied at 7-7 Sparks and Michael Hollis led off the inning with back-to-back singles and moved into scoring position on a wild pitch thrown by losing pitcher Preston Long with Derek Hooper at bat.
With the infield playing in, the Big Train continued to pitch to Hooper and the plan failed as Long uncorked another wild pitch and Sparks came home with the winning run.
After a 45 minute delay due to lightning, the two teams began putting runs on the board as the Big Train scored a run in the top of the first inning with the Braves tying the game in the bottom of the frame as Justin Jones scored on an RBI groundout to shortstop by Jesse Wierzbicki.
The Big Train regained the lead with a run in the top of the second inning but the Braves came back in the bottom of the frame to take a 3-2 lead.
Brandon Behenna singled and scored the tying run on a double by Colby Wren who moved to third on a groundout to second and came home with the lead run when Sparks grounded out to first.
The Braves added a run in the bottom of the third inning to take a 4-2 lead when Jones reached on a leadoff single and was given second on an interference call on the Big Train first baseman before scoring on a one out single by Zach Farmer.
The Big Train came back in the top of the fourth inning to tie the game as Jose Marin hit a solo home run off reliever Brian Foster and one out later, Keegan Lambuth scored on a single by Saxon Butler.
However, the Braves regained the lead with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning when Wierzbicki hit a 3-0 offering from Nathan Williams over the left field fence.
Foster, who will be attending Southern University of Louisiana in the fall, settled down to pitch a steady game until the top of the eighth when he walked Lambuth to start the frame and one out later would hit Chandler Tyree which prompted his exit as he was replaced by Casey Wilson.
Wilson struggled out of the gate as he hit Saxon Butler to load the bases and allowed a sacrifice fly to right field by Adam Russell that allowed Lambuth to come home and tie the game at 5-5.
The Big Train scored twice in the top of the tenth inning as Lambuth and Tyree reached on singles and Butler' followed with a double that scored Lambuth with the lead run.
Tyree took third on Butler's double and scored on a single to center by Russell who was on the mound to start the bottom of the tenth inning.
Russell didn't last long in the bottom of the inning as he walked Wierzbicki and Zach Farmer in succession before he was replaced on the mound by Long.
A wild pitch moved Wierzbicki and pinch runner Anthony Winbourne into scoring position before RBIs from Behenna and Wren tied the game at 7-7.