Titans Complete Important Series Sweep
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Ottawa, ON - The Ottawa Titans (41-39) completed their third series sweep of the season, defeating the Florence Y'alls (34-45) by an 8-3 final on Thursday night - keeping tabs on the final playoff spot in the Atlantic Conference.
It didn't start as planned, as Evan Grills (win, 4-4) saw the visitors get on the board first for the first time in the series with Hank Zeisler hammering his 19th homer of the year to right. The two-out solo shot in the opening frame put the Y'alls in front early, 1-0.
Facing former teammate Zac Westcott (loss, 5-5), the Titans answered with a pair in the bottom of the first. With AJ Wright at first with a one-out single, Jake Sanford crushed an RBI double to centre to tie the score. Two batters later, Taylor Wright lined an RBI single to left, scoring Sanford to make it 2-1.
Both veteran starters would settle in, with Grills taking centre stage in his ninth start of the year. The lefty faced four more than the minimum the rest of the way, giving the Titans five solid innings. Grills allowed just the one run on four hits, walking two, and striking out a season-high 11 batters to leave in line for the win.
Needing insurance, the Titans scratched across a run in the third, as a Taylor Wright double and Victor Cerny single stood at first and third with one out - as Justin Fogel lifted a sacrifice fly to left to put the home side up 3-1.
In the fifth, Tyler Martin blasted his first pro homer out to right to make it 4-1.
Westcott gave the Y'alls five innings, allowing four runs on six hits, striking out five.
After a run in the bottom of the seventh on a bases-loaded walk made it 5-1, Mac Lardner allowed a pair in the top of the eighth, as the lead shrank to 5-3.
Sending nine to the plate in the last of the eighth, the Titans stretched the lead enough to complete the sweep. Fogel knocked in his second of the game with a single, while bases-loaded walks to Kaiden Cardoso and AJ Wright helped plate two more to make it 8-3.
Brandon Marklund saw three reach with one out in the top of the ninth - as the Titans turned to all-star Billy Duby, who managed to get the final two outs to end the threat.
Taylor Wright went 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI, and stole two bases in the win. The Canadian now has four consecutive games of two-plus hits and went 7-for-11 with a pair of doubles in the mid-week set. Martin posted a multi-hit night, while AJ Wright brought in two with two walks, and Cardoso drew a pair of free passes.
The Ottawa Titans hit the road to start a seven-game road trip with the first of a crucial three-game series against the New York Boulders on Friday night at 7:00 p.m. at Clover Stadium in Pomona, New York. After three with the Boulders, the Titans will play four in Trois-Rivières. All the action can be heard on CKDJ 107.9 and live-streamed on Frontier League TV, powered by HomeTeam Network.
For information on Ottawa Titans’ 2025 Single-Game Tickets, Group Outings, and 2026 ticket packages, visit the Titans’ official website at www.ottawatitans.com.
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