Martians Drop Extra Inning Contest on Area 51 Night
Sioux Falls, SD – The Minnehaha Martians played an extra inning game for a second consecutive night, falling to Kansas City 4-2 in ten innings on Friday.
The Monarchs opened the scoring with an RBI single in the first frame and added an RBI double in the fourth. Joe Vos cracked a solo homerun to lead off the bottom half and Josh Rehwaldt tied the game with a solo homerun in the eighth.
Kansas City scored twice in the tenth inning on a sacrifice fly and a solo homerun and held the Canaries hitless in the home half.
Rehwaldt led the Martians with two hits while Ryan Zimmerman fanned six over seven innings. The Birds (44-35) return to action Saturday at 5:35pm.
