The Anchorage Bucs stopped the game in the eighth inning by going up 12-2 to invoke the mercy rule on the Peninsula Oilers in Alaska Baseball League action Thursday at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage.
The Bucs won the season series against the Oilers 8-2 by snapping a four-game losing streak. The Oilers fell to 4-2 on the current 11-game road trip, which is taking place in 10 days.
The Mat-Su Miners lead the league at 16-11, while the Bucs are a half game back at 16-12 and the Glacier Pilots are 1.5 games back at 14-12.
The Oilers are five games back at 10-15, while the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks are 5.5 games back at 10-16.
Peninsula continues the road trip Friday at Lee Jordan Field in Chugiak with a 6 p.m. contest against the Chinooks.
Thursday, the Bucs went up 4-0 in the first on Oilers starter and loser Ryan Brown.
Mose Hayes, of Homer High and Legion Twins fame, then gave Peninsula a chance to get back in the game, breezing through five innings of scoreless relief on just 44 pitches.
The wheels came off in the seventh, when the Bucs got to Hayes for five runs and scored seven runs overall.
Needing to score just one run in the bottom of the eighth to invoke the run rule, the Bucs got it off Harrison Metz, another Twins and Mariners product.
The Oilers had just four hits on the day while striking out 10 times. Ty Thomas had two RBIs.
