QUÉBEC SHOCKS EVANSVILLE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE NIGHT
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Evansville Otters | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
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Québec Capitales | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
Juremi Profar hit a two-run walk-off home run as the Québec Capitales defeated the Evansville Otters 7-6 on Wednesday night in game two of the Frontier League Championship Series at the Stade Canac. Québec scored five unanswered runs over the last two innings. The Capitales notched two singles to spearhead a key eighth inning. With two outs, a Tommy Siedel double followed by a Ruben Castro single scored three runs to trim Evansville's lead to 6-5 after eight.
Greg Bird started the bottom of the ninth with a walk. Juremi Profar followed with a two-run walk-off blast.
The Otters big lead was keyed by a four-run fourth inning courtesy of six hits in the frame. Gary Mattis drove in the first two runs on a triple that bounced over the head of Québec's right-fielder. Jake Green followed with an RBI single.
Josh Allen capped the scoring with a two-out RBI knock for a 5-2 Evansville lead.
The Otters added a run in the seventh. Kona Quiggle doubled and eventually scored on a wild pitch for a four run Otters' lead entering the eighth.
Zach Smith was strong in a four inning start for the Otters. He allowed just one earned run with four strikeouts.
Parker Brahms worked 3.2 innings in relief, working a perfect first three innings from the mound.
Québec scratched across an unearned run in the first. Justin Felix hit a solo home run in the second for Evansville before the Capitales answered with another run in the bottom half of the frame.
Evansville closer Jake Polancic suffered the loss in pitching the ninth. Evan Rutckyj pitched the top of the ninth for Québec and earned the win, striking out all three batters he faced.
Josh Allen led Evansville with two hits. Eight of nine Otters recorded hits. Castro, Profar, and Jesmuel Valentin all had multi-hit games for Québec, while Capitales' pitchers struck out 15 Evansville batters.
The best of five Frontier League Championship Series now finishes in Evansville. The Otters and Capitales play in game three on Friday night with a 6:35 PM CT first pitch from Bosse Field.
