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Two-run ninth lifts Dragons to walk-off win

The Dayton Dragons played their home opener on Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2023 at Day Air Ballpark in downtown Dayton to a sellout crowd of 8,135, extending the team’s streak to 1,442 games, an all-time record for professional sports franchises. The Dragons lost to the Great Lakes Loons 9-7. Did we spot you there? TOM GILLIAM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Credit: Tom Gilliam

Credit: Tom Gilliam

The Dayton Dragons played their home opener on Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2023 at Day Air Ballpark in downtown Dayton to a sellout crowd of 8,135, extending the team’s streak to 1,442 games, an all-time record for professional sports franchises. The Dragons lost to the Great Lakes Loons 9-7. Did we spot you there? TOM GILLIAM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
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By Staff Report
July 23, 2023
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Hayden Jones hit a game tying home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and Edwin Arroyo delivered a tie-breaking single two batters later as the Dayton Dragons came from behind to defeat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 6-5 on Sunday afternoon. The Dragons split the six-game series with Wisconsin, losing the first three games and winning the last three.

The game was tied 4-4 when Wisconsin’s Je’Von Ward drilled a solo home run off the center field batter’s eye leading off the top of the ninth inning to make it 5-4. In the bottom of the ninth, the first two Dayton batters were retired before Jones lifted an 0-1 pitch over the right-field fence to tie the game. Jones hit his first home run of the season on Friday night and tied the game on Sunday with his second of the year.

The next two Dayton batters, Trey Faltine and Jay Allen II, drew walks against Wisconsin reliever Tanner Shears. Arroyo followed by lining a 1-1 pitch to center field for a base hit, driving in Faltine from second base to win the game.

The win pulled the Dragons to within two games of first place Fort Wayne in the East Division of the Midwest League.

Arroyo had three hits for the second straight game and had three RBIs. Jones had two hits.

Dayton’s Justice Thompson hit a solo home run in the bottom of the second, his seventh of the season, that knotted the score at 2.

The Dragons broke the tie in the third a run-scoring double by Arroyo and an RBI ground out by Tyler Callihan. They held that lead until the sixth when Wisconsin’s Ben Metzinger hit a two-run home run to tie the game.

The victory went to Dragons reliever John Murphy (3-1), who worked 3 1/3 innings and struck out five. He allowed just one hit — the ninth-inning home run.

TUESDAY’S GAME

Dayton at Great Lakes, 7:05 p.m., 980

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