Rusney Castillo smacked his first professional home run, but it wasn’t enough to lead the Pawtucket Red Sox to a win.
The PawSox fell to the Omaha Storm Chasers 4-2 in the Triple-A National Championship in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday night, marking the second time in three years that they’ve won the International League Governors’ Cup and failed to win it all.
Still, the PawSox put on a good show. Castillo opened the scoring with his solo shot in the bottom of the first inning and went 1-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts from there. Omaha answered with a solo home run of its own in the next half-inning, as Kansas City Royals prospect Cheslor Cuthbert went yard off Edwin Escobar.
Cuthbert hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the fourth to put the Storm Chasers ahead before an actual storm came through, causing a one-hour, 46-minute rain delay in the bottom of the fifth.
PawSox first baseman Travis Shaw — who was 3-for-4 on the night — tied it up with a solo homer in the bottom of the sixth, but catcher Brett Hayes quickly rained on Pawtucket’s parade with a two-run home run off of reliever Miguel Celestino.
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