Evansville beats Wild Things in 10

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Pavin Parks hit the first pitch of the 10th inning for a two-run walk-off home run to give the Evansville Otters a 3-2 victory over the Wild Things on Friday night at Bosse Field.

Parks’ home run came off Gyeongju Kim (3-3), closer to Washington.

The Wild Things squandered a chance to extend their lead in the Frontier League’s West Division, losing runner-up Lake Erie 6-3 to Florence.

Evansville trailed 1-0 in the eighth inning, but then mounted a comeback.

Parks doubled in the eighth inning off Washington starter Dariel Fregio, who was having a great game, and went to third on a flyout to deep right center field. Parks raced home on a sacrifice fly by Mason White that tied the score at 1-1.

The score remained 1-1 in the 10th inning. Washington’s Andrew Czech led off the inning at second base as the tiebreaker runner. After Brandon McIlwain was hit by the first pitch of the inning from Evansville reliever Jon Beymer (4-1), Washington was unable to advance the runners with a bunt. However, Ricardo Sanchez hit an RBI single up the middle to score Czech and give the Wild Things a brief 2-1 lead.

Behmer and starter Parker Brahms held Washington to five hits and did not surrender a single.

Washington took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Tyreque Reed singled to right-center field, scoring Caleb McNeely from second base.

Fregio allowed one run on four hits in 7 2/3 innings. He struck out five and gave up no hits.