{"id":2662,"date":"2024-06-20T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:24:26","slug":"coal-cats-split-doubleheader-with-doughboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2024\/06\/20\/coal-cats-split-doubleheader-with-doughboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Cats Split Doubleheader with Doughboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/johnathan-edwards\/\">Johnathan Edwards<\/a><br \/>\nThursday, June 20, 2024<br \/>\nThe Coal Cats maintained their trend of alternating wins and losses, splitting Wednesday&#8217;s doubleheader against the Johnson City Doughboys. The first game, played under sunny skies at Jack Cook Field, ended with the Doughboys defeating the Coal Cats 12-9.<\/p>\n<p>Storms on Tuesday night forced the doubleheader, with a number of early innings complete before the rain set in and canceled the game altogether. This case of inclement weather moved the game to the 4 P.M. slot on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Game one was a high-scoring affair. Early in the second inning, Logan Piper surrendered a three-run homer to Eduardo Morales, putting the Doughboys ahead 3-0. However, Tri-State fought back in the third inning, tying the game at 3-3 with runs from Michael Rodriguez, CJ Richard, and Trent Adelman. The game remained tied until the sixth inning, where a disastrous sequence for the Coal Cats allowed the Doughboys to score eight runs, including several bases-loaded walks and a hit-by-pitch. Despite a late rally by Tri-State, Johnson City secured the win.<\/p>\n<p>After a grueling first game, endurance became the key in game two. Johnson City again took an early lead, but the Coal Cats cut it in half by the fourth inning. In a dramatic finish, newcomer Spencer Barnett hit a walk-off home run in the seventh, marking a memorable debut and securing a 3-2 victory for the Coal Cats<\/p>\n<p>The Coal Cats are back in action at 7 P.M. Thursday evening, kicking off a four-game slate against the Burlington Sock Puppets. As always, you can find more Tri-State baseball coverage in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/coal-cats-corner\/\">\u201cCoal Cats Corner\u201d section of our website, which you can access here<\/a>. Onward and upward.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the audio version of this story <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wmul-fm\/ccc-6-20-24-mixdown?si=e9ee3df3e4524f1597522b40af3e4d13&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnathan Edwards Thursday, June 20, 2024 The Coal Cats maintained their trend of alternating wins and losses, splitting Wednesday&#8217;s doubleheader against the Johnson City Doughboys. The first game, played under sunny skies at Jack Cook Field, ended with the Doughboys defeating the Coal Cats 12-9. Storms on Tuesday night forced the doubleheader, with a number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,77,100,97,109,51,96],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wmul-sports","tag-baseball","tag-coal-cats-corner","tag-fm88-sports","tag-johnathan-edwards","tag-tri-state-coal-cats","tag-wmul","tag-wv"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}