Arizona Fall League: Carson Kelly & Paul DeJong Record Hits, Rowan Wick Pitches as Desert Dogs Fall Late

After a day off on Sunday, the Glendale Desert Dogs hosted the Peoria Javelinas on Monday in a matinee matchup at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona, in the sixth game of the Arizona Fall League for the ‘Dogs.

Javelinas 5, Desert Dogs 4

• Carson Kelly (C): 1-4, R
• Paul DeJong (SS): 1-3, RBI
• Rowan Wick (RP): 1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K (pitched the seventh inning)

By scoring five runs across the final three innings -- including two in the ninth -- the Javelinas came back to take Monday’s game from the Desert Dogs, 5-4.

With his team leading 4-3 in the top of the ninth inning, Desert Dogs reliever Jacob Dorris found himself in a bases-loaded situation after an error, a base hit, and a hit by pitch and saw Peoria tie the game at four on Adrian Marins sacrifice fly before, after recording the inning’s second out, intentionally walking D.J. Stewart with a base open.

Intentionally walking the bases loaded in a tied game with two outs the ninth only works if you retire the next batter, a task that Dorris failed to do; Dorris, who walked 27 batters in 62.1 innings in the regular season as a member of the Astros organization, walked Brandon Dixon to force in the fifth run of the evening for Peoria, who took their newfound lead and ran to a victory.

As for Cardinals in this game, infielder Paul DeJong plated the fourth and final run of the evening for the Desert Dogs. Designated hitter Carson Kelly recorded a hit, and reliever Rowan Wick allowed a solo home run to Chad Wallach in the seventh, Wick’s only inning of work on Monday.

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On Tuesday, the Desert Dogs will travel to Peoria to face these same Javelinas in a contest that will begin at 7:35 p.m. CT. Cardinals lefty Austin Gomber, who won his first AFL start back on October 12, is tabbed to make the start for the Desert Dogs, opposite of Brent Honeywell, who went 7-3 with a 2.34 ERA across 20 starts in the Rays’ farm system this year and gave up five runs in his four-inning AFL debut.