By Aaron Morse
The Huntsville Stars (29-28, 62-65) scored the last five runs of the game but it wasn’t enough as they fell by a final score of 6-5 to the Montgomery Biscuits (26-31, 64-61) Monday night.
Things did not start well as the Biscuits scored five unearned runs in the first against Stars’ starter Andre Lamontagne (3-3). Emeel Salem started things off with a single to center. Lamontagne walked the next batter before striking out Jose Ruiz. Huntsville’s defense has been poor all year and a Zelous Wheeler error on what should have been a double play ball, loaded the bases with one out. John Matulia smacked a sacrifice fly to make it 1-0 Biscuits. After Lamontagne walked his second batter of the inning, Matt Spring delivered the big blow with a grand slam to make it 5-0 in Montgomery’s favor.
Walks continued to hurt Lamontagne as he issued a free pass to the lead-off man in the second. A passed ball moved the runner to second and a grounder to the right side moved him to third. Rashad Eldridge hit a sacrifice fly to extend the Biscuits’ lead to 6-0.
The next two innings saw the Stars fight back as Drew Anderson crushed a two-run bomb in the third to cut the Biscuit’s advantage to 6-2. A big fourth inning led to the Stars drawing to within one. With one out, Andy Machado doubled to right. Anderson De La Rosa singled him home. After Lee Haydel reached on a force attempt that turned into a Biscuits’ error, Brett Lawrie singled home De La Rosa to make the score 6-4. Back-to-back walks ended up pushing across the Stars’ fifth and final run of the contest.
The Stars only managed three base-runners the rest of the way as the Biscuits won the series opener.
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