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The Kansas City T-Bones (29-16) swept both ends of a doubleheader Thursday night at Airhogs Stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas, over the Texas Airhogs (11-33).
It was a night of comeback magic and pitching history to take the first two games over Texas.
T-Bones come from behind to win first game
The T-Bones faced off against the last place Texas Airhogs Thursday night in Grand Prairie Texas. The T-Bones got their eighth comeback victory of the season, winning 4-3.
The Airhogs’ Casio Grider singled in the bottom of the second off Tommy Collier to score Cordell Prime. Then Na Chuang came in to score the second run of the inning on a Liam Chenchen sacrifice fly out.
The T-Bones answered in the top of the third, tying the game on a Dylan Tice single that would score the speedy Mason Davis. The next batter was Nick Torres, who singled in Dylan Tice for the T-Bones second run of the game.
The Airhogs struck in the bottom of the fifth as Stewart Ijames hit a sacrifice fly scoring Yang Jin.
Tommy Collier was knocked out of the game after five innings, allowing three earned runs on six hits and striking out five.
Starting pitcher Gan Quran for Texas gave his team a chance for a win, going a strong five and two-thirds, allowing two earned runs on six hits.
The T-Bones used their magic again, tying the game in the seventh as Mason Davis advanced to first on a drop-third -strike allowing Dexter Kjerstad to race home, sliding into the plate to tie the game at three.
In the eighth Dexter Kjerstad singled, scoring Zach Walters for the go-ahead run. Carlos Diaz put the hammer down on the Airhogs, recording his eighth save and completing the comeback for the T-Bones.
Gracesqui gets win in no-hitter
The T-Bones used four pitchers and a solo home run from Dexter Kjerstad to work a combined no-hitter and win, 1-0.
It was the second no-hitter thrown by Kansas City, the first coming in a doubleheader pitched by Matt Sergey against Texas on July 27, 2017.
Francisco Gracesqui (2-2), who struck out nine Airhogs over four hitless innings, got the spot start and the win for KC. Kevin Hill worked a 1-2-3 fifth inning and was followed by Joe Filomeno, who also tossed a clean inning in order.
The game was tied until the top of the fifth inning when Dexter Kjerstad launched a line shot home run to left field to break up Airhogs starter Sun Jianzeng’s no-hit effort through 4.1 innings.
The T-Bones summoned Cody Winiarski in the bottom of the seventh to notch the save as he gave up a two-out walk but was able to retire Casio Grider for the final out of the game. Jianzeng (0-3) was charged with the loss for Texas.
With Thursday’s pair of wins, Kansas City improves to 29-16 on the season while Texas drops to 11-33. The teams will play the third game of the series Friday night at Airhogs Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
Individual tickets, season, group, mini-plans and nightly party suites are on sale and can be purchased by visiting the box office at T-Bones Stadium or www.tbonesbaseball.com. Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The T-Bones games are airing on the T-Bones Broadcast Network, http://mixlr.com/t-bones-baseball/.
– Story from T-Bones
by Brian Grimmett, Kansas News Service
Kansas water use is declining, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological survey.
In 2015, Kansas used on average more than 4 billion gallons of water each day. That’s down nearly 25 percent from 1990. Of that, 2.6 billion gallons per day are used for irrigation — a decrease of 36 percent from 1990.
“What we’re doing is great, it’s just not enough of it,” said Kansas Water Office Director Tracy Streeter.
He’s particularly concerned about areas of western Kansas where farmers draw from the diminishing Ogallala aquifer.
“Overall, we’ve got to see more widespread adoption of conservation efforts,” he said.
The top three water consuming counties are Stevens, Finney and Seward — all located in southwestern Kansas.
Linn County, in eastern Kansas, withdraws the most water per day of any county. The culprit is the LaCygne coal-fired power plant, which withdraws 610 million gallons per day. But the plant puts almost all the water it withdraws back into the lake it comes from, consuming just 1 percent of it.
Mandy Stone is a hydrologist at the USGS in Kansas. She said the data is a good tool to show policymakers, and Kansans, where their water comes from and where it goes.
“This water use data is important, ultimately because all of us in the economy depend on water every day,” she said.
Brian Grimmett, based at KMUW in Wichita, is a reporter focusing on the environment and energy for the Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KMUW, Kansas Public Radio, KCUR and High Plains Public Radio covering health, education and politics. Follow him on Twitter @briangrimmett. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to the original post.
See more at http://kcur.org/post/kansans-are-using-less-water-they-used.