Schaumburg Boomers draw record crowd, fall to Ottawa

Before a franchise record crowd of 8,023 on the Fourth of July, the Schaumburg Boomers dropped an 8-6 decision to the Ottawa Titans in the series finale.

Ottawa scored six runs in the top of the eighth inning to turn around a 3-2 deficit and held off a late surge from the Boomers to nab the victory.

AJ Wright used a wall scraper of a 2-run homer to put the visitors ahead. Both teams scored runs in the first inning before the starting pitchers engaged in a duel that saw neither team score until a single marker from Ottawa in the top of the sixth. Tyler Depreta-Johnson spanked a 2-run opposite-field double in the bottom of the seventh to give the Boomers a momentary 3-2 before the six runs in the eighth.

Christian Fedko opened the bottom of the eighth with a single. Kyle Fitzgerald scored the first run with an RBI single. The second run of the inning scored on a wild pitch as the Ottawa pitching staff uncorked three wild ones in the inning.

Three consecutive walks loaded the bases for Alec Craig, who was hit by a pitch to force home the final run of the inning. Craig represented the go-ahead run, but Ottawa escaped to take the series.