Lindsly Homer Not Enough, Railroaders Edge Monarchs

Cleburne, TX — It was another night of a Monarchs lead that was overcome by three unanswered runs from Cleburne to eventually suffer a 6-4 defeat on Wednesday evening.

The Railroaders jumped in front in the opening frame with a pair of runs. Two runners stood at the corners and Carlos Aldrete sent a sharp ground ball to left to bring in Mallex Smith. Just two pitches later, Frankie Tostado drove a sac fly which allowed Delino DeShields to be the second runner to cross home plate.

Just as we have seen so many times this season, the Monarchs had a quick response. In the top of the second, Austin Callahan kickstarted the inning with a base hit followed by a Hudson Head walk. With two outs, the Dallas native, Brady Lindsly connected on the 2-2 delivery and smoked a ball over the right field fence. Once again, another Texas product who has shined back in his home state.

Jimmy Endersby earned his third start on the bump and threw three punch outs, but conceded seven hits and four runs. He found himself in a jam in the third inning when Cleburne had the bases loaded with no outs. Cody Thomas grounded out into an RBI to bring in Aldrete and the Monarchs were fortunate only to allow one run to score in the frame. Once again, Cleburne delivered a run in the fourth on a Tostado RBI.

The door was open for KC in the eighth inning when the bases were loaded and only one out. Sahid Valenzuela lifted a sac fly to center and Martini tagged up to bring the score to a one run game at 5-4. Unfortunately the Monarchs were unable to squeeze more tallies out of the inning as they had six runners left on base throughout the game.

Cleburne added an insurance run in the bottom of the inning to seal the series.

With a Sioux Falls win tonight, the Monarchs (17-12) just stand 1.5 games in front of the Canaries for first place in the west division. Cleburne (13-17) is currently 5th in the east and is 9 GB of first place.

Kansas City will wrap their nine-game road stand with the final contest against Cleburne tomorrow night at 7:06