THUNDER BAY – Let’s play three!
Ernie Banks would love it.
The Thunder Bay Border Cats and Waterloo Bucks might find it a tad exhausting.
But that’s just what they’re going to do on Wednesday, after Tuesday’s game was rained out, the skies opening over Port Arthur Stadium with Zane Skansi at the plate, facing a 3-1 count, leading off the bottom of the third.
The Border Cats led the Bucks 1-0 at the time the game was stopped, after Cole Ketzner hit a fly ball to right with no out and the bases loaded in the first inning, scoring Lucas Terilli from third after Waterloo starter Brendon Carter walked the first three batters he faced.
Carter was chased, after throwing 36 pitches in the first, one more than the Northwoods League maximum in a single inning.
Julian Parson hadn’t allowed a hit, walking two and hitting one before getting out of a bases loaded jam with two outs in the first.
Tuesday’s game will resume on Wednesday, the Border Cats and Bucks already scheduled to play a split doubleheader, with Skansi up in the third.
The two teams will finish out the contest, then take a half-an-hour break before starting Wednesday’s regularly scheduled afternoon contest, the second of two school-day games scheduled this season. It’ll be a seven-inning affair.
The Cats and Bucks will play a traditional nine-inning game in the nightcap, slated for a 6:35 p.m. start.
