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Omar Quintanilla slaps game-winning hit for Express
Jon Garrett - ROUND ROCK LEADER
ROUND ROCK
Updated: 3:10 a.m. Sunday, May 8, 2011
Published: 3:08 a.m. Sunday, May 8, 2011
There's no place like home.
That was the case for former Texas Longhorn Omar Quintanilla Saturday night at Dell Diamond. After serving a 50-game drug suspension, and sitting out his first game with the Round Rock Express on Friday, the shortstop finally got back on the diamond .
With Game 2 of the team's four-game series with Nashville tied 8-8 in the bottom of the ninth, and one out , Quintanilla delivered a walkoff, game-winning single that had his new teammates mobbing him at first base.
" It is definitely good to be back here where you have a lot of history," Quintanilla said Friday after joining the team . "Baseball is the same everywhere, but I'm glad it's here (that I'm returning to play). It's a lot more comforting."
He looked at home Saturday, going 2 for 4 at the plate, walking once, scoring one run and getting plenty of love from a pro-Longhorn crowd in the 9-8 win .
The Express enjoyed their second walkoff single in as in many games, following Esteban German's game-winner Friday in an 8-7 victory over Nashville .
Nashville's Matt Gamel hit home runs in the fourth and fifth innings — a solo shot in the fourth and a two-run effort in the fifth — and the Sounds took a 6-2 lead into the sixth. But the Express closed the gap to one run in the bottom of the frame, with a three-run home run by Chad Tracy . Tracy drive in a game-high four runs Saturday for Round Rock.
Nashville tacked on two runs in the seventh to extend the lead, before a three-run double by Kevin Cash — on a 2-2 pitch in the eighth — tied the game.
Reliever Justin Miller (1-0) got the win for Round Rock, walking one and allowing no runs in two innings .
Mark DiFelice (1-1) took the loss for the Sounds, allowing two runs (both earned) on four hits in one inning .
Omar Quintanilla slaps game-winning hit for Express
Jon Garrett - ROUND ROCK LEADER
ROUND ROCK
Updated: 3:10 a.m. Sunday, May 8, 2011
Published: 3:08 a.m. Sunday, May 8, 2011
There's no place like home.
That was the case for former Texas Longhorn Omar Quintanilla Saturday night at Dell Diamond. After serving a 50-game drug suspension, and sitting out his first game with the Round Rock Express on Friday, the shortstop finally got back on the diamond .
With Game 2 of the team's four-game series with Nashville tied 8-8 in the bottom of the ninth, and one out , Quintanilla delivered a walkoff, game-winning single that had his new teammates mobbing him at first base.
" It is definitely good to be back here where you have a lot of history," Quintanilla said Friday after joining the team . "Baseball is the same everywhere, but I'm glad it's here (that I'm returning to play). It's a lot more comforting."
He looked at home Saturday, going 2 for 4 at the plate, walking once, scoring one run and getting plenty of love from a pro-Longhorn crowd in the 9-8 win .
The Express enjoyed their second walkoff single in as in many games, following Esteban German's game-winner Friday in an 8-7 victory over Nashville .
Nashville's Matt Gamel hit home runs in the fourth and fifth innings — a solo shot in the fourth and a two-run effort in the fifth — and the Sounds took a 6-2 lead into the sixth. But the Express closed the gap to one run in the bottom of the frame, with a three-run home run by Chad Tracy . Tracy drive in a game-high four runs Saturday for Round Rock.
Nashville tacked on two runs in the seventh to extend the lead, before a three-run double by Kevin Cash — on a 2-2 pitch in the eighth — tied the game.
Reliever Justin Miller (1-0) got the win for Round Rock, walking one and allowing no runs in two innings .
Mark DiFelice (1-1) took the loss for the Sounds, allowing two runs (both earned) on four hits in one inning .
