Boomers walked off by Evansville

Evansville’s Keenan Taylor connected on a two-run walk-off homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth in the opener of a midweek series to beat the visiting Schaumburg Boomers 8-7 on Tuesday.

The homer produced the only lead of the game for the Otters. Banks Tolley put Schaumburg ahead with a two-run homer in the second and Alec Craig added an RBI single in the frame. Evansville scored in the third but the Boomers came back with two in the fourth on RBI doubles from Satchell Norman and Bren Spillane to open a 5-1 edge. Evansville rallied to tie the game in the seventh before the Boomers scored twice in the eighth to lead 7-5. Spillane drove home his second run of the night with a single and Andrew Sojka dropped down a safety squeeze.

Both teams finished with nine hits. Spillane and Tolley tallied two each for the Boomers. Cole Cook worked five innings in a no-decision.