"These Are The Times That Try Men's Souls'

Ogden dropped a tough, 7-4 game to Idaho Falls in 12 innings and the Mets, both Gulf Coast League and Dominican Summer League, edged the Dodgers. The Coasties lost 2-1, the Dominicans dropped a 5-4 decision.

Ogden Falters in 12th, Loses Again
"These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine wrote it in 1776 and the Ogden Raptors believe it in 2008.

The winless Raptors saw their record slid to 0-8 when Idaho Falls use a bases-loaded double to score three times in the 12th inning for a 7-4 victory.

"It was a well-played game overall," manager Mike Brumley told the Ogden Standard-Examiner. "We played well defensively, made some plays. A guy hits the ball with the bases loaded in an extra inning game ... we just got to keep battling."

In the distance, the worst start in Pioneer League history (0-16) looms before them and in 2-7 Casper started out 0-9. The loss was the third in extra innings for the Raptors this season.

"I have actually lost more games in a row than this," Brumley said. "It's just so extra tough when it's starting the season. If you run off a bad streak in the middle of the year, everyone expects that to happen. But when you get off to a start like we have ... if you can't get out of it, you better get into it."

Ogden seemed to have their first win in sight in the top of the eighth leading 4-2 but their old bugaboo, a crucial, error, turned the game around.

First baseman Kyle Orr caught, then dropped a foul pop fly. The batter eventually walked, then a two out double tied the score.

"It's going to change, it's just rough on everybody," Brumley said. "Historically with the Dodger organization, we have had tough first halves of the season because we send in a young group of players who have never played together before and going through that transition of becoming a pro. So it's a combination of a lot of things."

For the seventh time in eight games, Ogden scored first.

Devaris Gordon struck out swinging in the bottom of the third, but reached to first on a throwing error by the catcher. Gordon scored the Raptors' first run minutes later on a passed ball.

Gordon doubled in the bottom of the fourth, driving in Jessie Mier and Elian Herrera, to give Ogden a 3-0 lead.

Ogden's Steven Caseres, the #9 pick in the draft, smacked his first home run of the season in the bottom of the sixth to put the Raptors up 4-2.

Starter Robert Boothe allowed one run earned in six innings and struck out five. Luis Vasquez gave up a pair of runs in the seventh to tie the game.

Javier Solano took the game into the 12th, preserving the tie before Brandon Tuten (0-2) was tagged with the loss.

The Raptors close out their three-game series with Idaho Falls tonight before Orem (gasp!), who won the first six meetings between the teams, comes back to town for a pair of games on Thursday and Friday.

  Score by Innings
Idaho Falls	000 002 020 003-7
Ogden	        001 201 000 000-4

  Ogden	        ab r  h  bi  ave
Ruggiano 2b	5  0  1  0  .160
Baez 3b	        6  0  0  0  .258
Russell rf	3  0  0  0  .346
Orr 1b	        4  0  0  0  .300
Poole cf	5  0  0  0  .045
Caseres dh	6  1  1  1  .278
Mier c	        6  1  1  1  .192
Herrera lf	6  1  2  0  .192
Gordon ss	4  1  2  2  .250
  Totals	45 4 7 3
  Idaho Falls	45 7 8 6

  Error- Orr 2 (2), Strange-
Gordon (6), Tuten (1). 2B-
Herrera (3), Strange-Gordon (2).
HR- Caseres (1). RBI- Strange-Gordon.
LOB- Ogden 13, Idaho Falls 6. DP-
Baez, Ruggiano and Orr.

  Ogden	         in  h  r-er bb so  era
Boothe	        6.0  3  2-1  1  5  4.09
Vasquez (sv 1)	2.2  2  2-1  3  1  1.59
Solano	        2.1  0  0-0  1  3  5.06
Tuten (0-2)	1.0  3  3-2  0  1 10.38
  T- 3:32. Att- 2,197.

Coasties Lose First Game in 12
The Gulf Coast Dodgers let a pair of leads slip away and lost 5-4 in 12 innings. The loss, their first of the season, gives them a 3-1 record and cuts their league lead to 1/2 game.

Scoring single runs in the first three innings the Dodgers took a 3-0 lead into the seventh inning. Edwin Contreras surrendered only three hits over his five innings of work but Gari Tavarez gave up a single run in the seventh and two in the eighth to knot the game 3-3.

The Dodgers scored in the eighth for a 4-3 lead but the Mets tagged Roberto Feliciano for a run in the ninth to tie before Luis Ferreras (0-1) worked scoreless innings in the 10th and 11th only to give up a run in the 12th on three singles, the last two with two out.

Joris Bert walked with the bases loaded in the first to drive in the first run. Jerald Sands' sac fly in the third made it 2-0 and Johan Garcia singled to drive in Bert in the third for a 3-0 lead.

A pair of walks and Jake New' single tied the game in the eighth and they left the bases loaded when the final two batters struck out and grounded to first. The Dodgers also left two men on in the last of the ninth and 10th.

  Score by Innings
Mets	000 000 121 001-5
Dodgers	011 000 010 000-4

  Dodgers	ab r   h  bi  ave
Garcia 3b	6  0  2  1  .385
Guerrero ss	6  0  2  0  .154
Howard 2b	3  1  1  0  .375
Ynoa 2b	        1  1  0  0  .000
Jacobs 1b	5  1  2  0  .400
Sands rf	4  0  0  1  .235
New lf	        5  0  1  1  .250
Collado c	5  0  3  0  .444
 Jean pr	0  0  0  0  .400
Villalobos c	1  0  0  0  .000
Sullivan dh	4  0  0  0  .000
Bert cf	3  1  0  1  .333
  Totals	43 4 11 4
  Mets	        36 5 14 5

  RBI- Bert (2), Sands (7)),
Garcia (2), New (3). S- Ynoa. SF-
Sands. LOB- 13, Mets 10. SB- Bert
(1), Howard (1), Jacobs (1). DP-
Contreras, Guerrero and Jacobs.

  Dodgers	  in  h  r-er bb so  era
Contreras	5.0  3  0-0  0  1  0.00
Tavarez 	2.0  5  3-3  1  2 10.13
Feliciano	1.1  2  1-1  1  2  6.75
Ferreras (0-1)	3.0  4  1-1  0  3  1.80
 HBP- Sullivan. 

Dodgers Lose on Error in Eighth
If you make four errors, chances are one of them will cost you the game and that is just what happened when the Mets broke a 1-1 tie in the eighth inning with a single unearned run to win 2-1.

The Dominican Summer League Dodgers lone run came in the second inning when Bladimir Franco slugged his fourth home run of the young season over the center field wall.

Starter Antonio Castillo held the lead until the sixth when a solo home run tied the game. Then, with Joel Lima on the mound, a double and a throwing error on a pickoff by Lima moved the runner to third and later the runner scored on a ground ball.

In the bottom of the inning the Dodgers made their moved. Erick Lantigua walked and Alexis Aguilar lived on an error. A force play cut the runner down at third before Adrian Aviles singled to load the sacks. Then a popout and a strikeout ended the threat and, effectively, the game.

Aviles and Franco had two of the seven Dodgers hits.

The Dodgers slipped to 11-9, three games behind the Giants.

 Score by innings
Mets	000 001 010-2
Dodgers	010 000 000-1

 Dodgers	at r  h  bi  ave
YMartinez cf	4  0  1  0  .269
Aviles lf	4  0  2  0  .333
Morales 2b	4  0  1  0  .359
TFranco rf	4  0  0  0  .212
Sucre dh	4  0  0  0  .275
BFranco 3b	4  1  2  1  .292
Bens c        	4  0  1  0  .250	
Lantigua 1b	2  0  0  0  .260	
 JCastillo 1b	0  0  0  0  .200
Aguilar ss	3  0  0  0  .225
  Totals	33 1 7 1
  Mets	        32 2 4 2

 Errors- Bens (4), Morales (5), Lima (1), 
YMartinez (2). 2b hits- Morales (10). 
HR- BFranco (4). RBI- BFranco (8). CS-
Martinez (5), LOB- Dodgers 6, Mets 5.

 Dodgers	in  h  r-er bb so  era
ACastillo	5.2  2  1-1  2  7  1.85
Lima (1-1)	2.1  2  1-0  0  4  2.19
Hanson	1.0  0  0-0  0  1  1.35
 T- 2:20.