With the score of their Sunday-night match up tied 3-3 in the eighth inning, the Aberdeen IronBirds rallied for one of their largest late-game offensive showings of the season, scoring six times en route to a 9-3 victory over the Williamsport Crosscutters at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen.
The win bumped Aberdeen's record to 20-36 on the season, still leaving the IronBirds were at the bottom of the New York-Penn League's McNamara Division, seven games in back of the Hudson Valley Renegades.
The IronBirds' eighth-inning outburst started with Glynn Davis' leadoff single between short and third, which was followed by Martin Serrata's bunt base hit.
Davis, who moved to third on Serrata's bunt, scored what would be the winning run when Mychal Givens' reached base on a fielder's choice.
After Wynston Sawyer walked to load the bags, Connor Narron roped a single center that scored Serrata and Givens, putting Aberdeen up 6-3.
Austin Knight came up sixth and hit into a fielder's choice that moved Sawyer over to third base, and the next hitter, Austin Goolsby, went down swinging for the inning's second out. With two down, Dudley Leonora poked a one-RBI single to left, Kyle Hoppy followed with a walk that put men at every base, and Davis wrapped up the rally by knocking Leonora and Knight home with a base hit to right.
Trailing 1-0 in the third, Aberdeen tied things up when Goolsby whacked a leadoff homer, his second round-tripper of the year.
After the Crosscutters tied things with a run in the fifth, Aberdeen went ahead again with a pair of tallies.
Starting things off was Kyle Hoppy, who hit a leadoff single, and Serrata followed one out later with a base knock to short right. Givens grounded into the inning's second out, but there to salvage things was Sawyer, who belted a fastball to dead center that drove Hoppy and Serrata home.
Williamsport scored its final run in the top of the seventh.
Zach Fowler picked up his first pitching win of the year with a two-inning relief stint. Through the eighth and ninth frames, Fowler was perfect, striking out two of the six hitters he faced.
Parker Bridwell made the start for Aberdeen and lasted five innings, striking out two, walking two, and surrendering a pair of earned runs on five hits.
Ryan Berry took over on the mound in the sixth and went two innings, allowing one earned run on three hits, striking out two and walking one.
Davis and Serrata were the only IronBirds with multiple hits, as each went 2-for-5.
Goolsby's homer was the lone extra-base hit for Aberdeen. Hoppy earned two of the IronBirds' three walks, with Sawyer getting the other base on balls.