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On Fireworks Night at McBean Stadium, the Potters recorded neither a win nor a loss in their Pacific Empire League showdown with the Medford Rogues. Due to the impeding fireworks show and the city of Lincoln’s noise restrictions, the Potters and Rogues leave the field in a 7-7 tie that will be resumed tomorrow afternoon at 5:05pm.

Despite the result, there was plenty of action throughout the course of the ballgame, and it began in the bottom of the second inning after a quiet first. Jacob Doyle would record the first Potter hit of the ballgame with a screaming ground ball down the third base line to put himself on second with a double, before he was quickly scored thanks to Cade Parker’s two-run home run that bounced off the left field shipment container.

The Rogues would respond quickly with a two-run home run of their own in the top of the third, hit by the Dueling Dogs Dog Batter of the Ballgame, Ian Fernandez. His homer would tie things up at two, but that would only last so long before JT Waldon crushed his fourth home run of the season over the right field netting to give the Potters a 4-2 lead. Both squads would trade a pair of runs in the fifth and sixth innings before Medford would strike in the bottom of the eighth. The Rogues sent five men to the plate, the last of which being Levi Jones, who would crack a game-tying two run double into the right-center gap before being run down at third base. The rest of regulation would see little action, sending the game into extra innings tied up at five.

International tiebreaker rules would place a runner at second base for both teams at the start of extra innings, and they would immediately take advantage. The Rogues would plate their automatic runner with a sacrifice fly to left fielder JR Freethy, putting Lincoln’s backs against the wall in the bottom half. Jacob Doyle would come through, sending a line drive into the right-center gap to score pinch runner Zach Chamizo, tying the game at six before the Rogues would strand the bases loaded to keep the game going. More of the same would go on in the 11th, with the Rogues scoring on an RBI single up the middle to take the lead 7-6, before the Potters would respond back on a Luke Mansy sacrifice fly to shallow left to score a sprinting Cole Dillon.

That would be all she wrote for this Saturday night, as Zach Chamizo’s inning ending strikeout would send the game into a fireworks delay, as the decision was made prior to the inning that the game would be suspended for the night and picked up tomorrow due to the city of Lincoln’s noise policies. Saturday’s contest will resume in the top of the 12th inning tomorrow evening, with first pitch scheduled for 5:05pm. Shortly after the conclusion of that game, the regularly scheduled Sunday night series finale between the Potters and the Rogues will begin.