MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com -Jacksonville, Fla. – Mike Stanton belted two homeruns, Logan Morrison hit his third Double-A round tripper and Lorenzo Scott smashed a game-ending, leadoff home run in the twelfth inning leading the Jacksonville Suns (42-38, 7-3) to a 7-6, twelve inning victory over the Montgomery Biscuits (38-42, 5-5) in front of 1,636 Wednesday night at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.

Suns reliever A.J. Battisto (1-0) picked up the victory in his first day with the ballclub, pitching a perfect twelfth inning. Battisto was promoted to Jacksonville from Jupiter prior to the game. Biscuits reliever Eddie Morlan (3-4) fell in the loss, giving up the game-ending homerun.

The game went back-and-forth, starting in the first inning. Montgomery’s Desmond Jennings scored on a Rashad Eldridge double for a 1-0 score. In the bottom of the inning, Logan Morrison belted a two-out, solo homerun to right field for a 1-1 game. Mike Stanton next smashed a solo homerun over the right-centerfield wall for a 2-1 lead. Stanton’s hit was originally a double, but overturned after a meeting of the umpiring20crew.

Montgomery took the lead back in the third inning, first tying the game as Jason Bowers scored on an Eldridge two-out single for a 2-2 score. Fernando Cortez next hit a two-run homerun to right field opening a 4-2 Montgomery lead.

In the bottom of the third Logan Morrison scored on a dropped pop-up by Montgomery catcher Nevin Ashley cutting the Biscuits lead to 4-3. Montgomery extended the lead to two runs again in the fifth inning as Eldridge drove in Bowers on a sacrifice fly for a 5-3 score.

Jacksonville rallied again starting in the sixth inning when Mike Stanton smashed a tape-measure homerun to left-centerfield t o cut the deficit to 5-4. In the seventh inning Lorenzo Scott’s sacrifice fly tied the game 5-5 before an RBI single from Logan Morrison opened a 6-5 lead.

Matt Peterson entered the game in the ninth, looking for his league-leading 19^th save. After striking out the first two batters, Peterson hit Nevin Ashley with a pitch. Drew Anderson next singled to put runners on first and third. Desmond Jennings then legged out an infield hit to drive in Ashley for a 6-6 score.

Montgomery only recorded one hit from the 10^th through 12^th innings. In the bottom of the 12^th, Lorenzo Scott belted the first Eddie Morlan pitch into the right field bleachers for a 7-6 final.

Suns RH Nic Ungs will face Biscuits RH Brian Baker in game five of the series Thursday at 7:05 p. m.

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