The Peninsula Oilers held off the Anchorage Bucs 6-5 on Monday in Alaska Baseball League play at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage.
The Oilers remain in second place at 22-19 in the ABL with the victory. The Oilers are 2 1-2 games behind the Mat-Su Miners, but a game ahead of the Pilots and three games ahead of the Bucs.
The Oilers conclude the regular season with a 5 p.m. doubleheader at the Bucs today and a 6 p.m. game at the Miners on Wednesday.
In the Monday game against the Bucs, reliever Andrew Bash proved he has a short memory.
Bash gave up a game-winning, walk-off grand slam Sunday in a loss to the Chugiak Chinooks, but came back Monday to pitch a scoreless ninth inning and record the save.
Zack Hamilton came through with a solid start for the Oilers, going 6 1-3 innings and giving up four earned runs on four hits.
The Oilers led 6-1 going into the bottom of the seventh when the Bucs struck for four runs. The big blow was a three-run home run by Hunter Kasuls off of Yi-Hsin Huang.
But Huang and Bash were able to hold the Bucs down the rest of the way.
The Oilers rolled up 13 hits in the game. Darius Hill was 4 for 5 with two RBIs, while Jonathan Washam was 2 for 5 with two runs scored.
Also for the Oilers, Jeffrey Chapuran was 2 for 3 with a run and an RBI, and Marshall Boggs was 2 for 4 with a run and an RBI.
Monday
Oilers 6, Bucs 5
Oilers AB R H BI Bucs AB R H BI
Hill cf 5 0 4 2 Trjo ss 3 1 1 0
Dwsn ss 4 0 0 1 Htch cf 3 0 0 0
Wshm c 5 2 2 0 Jnsn rf 3 0 0 0
DWt dh 4 0 1 0 Arda dh 3 0 1 1
Wfrd lf 4 0 0 0 Hrrs pr 0 0 0 0
Cprn 2b 3 1 2 1 Ttm 3b 4 1 1 0
Spk rf 5 1 1 0 Hrd 1b 4 1 1 1
Bgs 1b 4 1 2 1 Mlts lf 2 1 0 0
Sfrt 3b 3 1 1 0 Snly ph 1 0 0 0
—- — — — — Ksls 2b 4 1 1 3
—- — — — — Gnte c 3 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 13 5 Totals 30 5 5 5
Peninsula 111 003 000 —6
Anchorage 100 000 400 —5
2B — Washam, DeWitt, Chapuran, Seifert, Tatum. HR — Kasuls. SF — Dawson. SH — Seifert, Johnson. CS — Hill, Trejo. LOB — Oilers 10, Bucs 3. DP — Oilers 1.
IP H R ER BB SO
Oilers
Hamilton, W 6 1-3 4 4 4 3 4
Huang 1 2-3 1 1 1 1 0
Bash, S 1 0 0 0 0 0
Bucs
Gooch, L 5 1-3 12 6 6 1 3
Bies 1 2-3 0 0 0 1 1
Vanderford 1 1 0 0 0 0
Rivera 1 0 0 0 1 0
WP — Hamilton, Gooch. HBP — by Rivera (DeWitt).
