With approximately one month left in the Pioneer League season, the O's embarked on a seven-game road swing on Thursday that will go a long way to telling whether they can get it together in time to forge a late run at a second-half playoff spot.
This was not the ideal way to begin.
Vetters finished 3-for-5 and got Ogden out of the gate in the first inning when he crushed a grand slam to left off Missoula starter Kenny Sosa, who'd walked two of the first three batters he faced to load the bases.
The slam was the biggest blow struck during a troubled outing by Sosa. The 21-year-old lefty from Santo Domingo allowed eight base runners during his 1 1-3 innings of work. All eight scored.
Though the Osprey tried to keep it close - notching a three-run rally in the second highlighted by Tyrell Worthington's first double of the season - the Raptors were too much.
Devaris Gordon and Vetters each smacked two-run doubles in the bottom half of the inning and Ogden was off and running.
Gordon finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs and Matt Wallach ended with two doubles to lead a Raptors squad that began the year 1-9, but has since gone 25-14.
While the Osprey matched Ogden's 14 hits, they left 10 men on base and stuck out 13 times.
Seven of those came while Raptors starter Michael Watt was on the mound. He went six innings and allowed three runs on 10 hits.
Ryne White, Kyle Greene and Victor Estevez sparked a mini-rally when all three doubled in the ninth. The Osprey pushed three more runs across the plate in that inning before Rafael Hilario whiffed to end the game. It was one of four strikeouts on the night for Hilario.
White finished 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, while Greene was 2-for-5. Worthington ended 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and Nelson Gomez also collected two hits.
Missoula got a pair of nice outings by relief pitchers Bayron Zepeda and Daniel Schlereth. Zepeda pitched two innings, surrendering just a lone hit and striking out two.
Schlereth pitched the eighth, and also allowed a single with a pair of Ks.
The game was the first of three against Ogden for the Osprey. They close out the current road swing with four games against Orem next.
MISSOULA OGDEN
ab r h bi ab r h bi
Diaz cf 5 0 1 0 Cssanva 1b 3 3 1 1
Navarro ss 4 0 1 0 Gordon ss 4 2 2 3
White 1b 5 1 3 0 Dlmnico dh 3 2 1 0
Greene 3b 5 1 2 1 Vetters lf 5 1 3 7
Gomez dh 5 2 2 1 Baez 3b 5 0 0 1
Ascencio rf 3 0 0 0 Russell rf 4 0 0 0
Estevez rf 1 0 1 1 Arp 1 0 1 0
Hilario 2b 5 1 1 0 Wallach c 4 1 2 0
Perez c 4 1 1 0 Ruggiano 1 0 0 0
Wrthingtn 4 0 2 2 Becker 2b 3 2 1 0
Buss cf 4 2 3 1
Totals 41 6 14 5 Totals 37 13 14 13
Missoula 030 000 003 - 6
Ogden 441 130 000 - 13
E-Cassanova. LOB - Missoula 10, Ogden 6. 2B-Worthington, Greene, Estevez, White 2; Gordon, Vetters, Buss2. HR-Vetters. SB-Navarro. SF-Gordon.
IP H R ER BB SO
Missoula
Sosa L (2-2) 1.1 5 8 8 3 2
R. Rodriguez 3.2 7 5 5 1 2
Zepeda 2 1 0 0 0 2
Schlereth 1 1 0 0 0 2
Ogden
Watt 6.0 10 3 3 0 7
Prado 2.0 0 0 0 2 3
Walter 1.0 4 3 3 0 3
Umpires-Yute Niide, home; Rick Eilson, first. T-2:47. A-3,643.
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