Vipers sweep doubleheader with Scorpions

ESPN weekend didn't translate to wins for the Yuma Scorpions.
 
Yuma dropped both games of Sunday's doubleheader, losing 3-2 in the first game and 5-4 in the finale of the weekend series with the North Division leading Calgary Vipers at Desert Sun Stadium.
 
The Scorpions (10-26) have lost five straight and six of seven overall, heading into the final week of the first half of the Golden Baseball League's regular season. Yuma opens a three-game series Tuesday at the Victoria Seals.
 
The sports network was in Yuma to do a feature story on the Scorpions and the affiliation with the Colombian Professional Baseball League. Players from the CPBL make up Yuma's entire roster.
 
Calgary starter Erik Dessau (4-1) went the distance in the Game 1, allowing two runs on eight hits and no walks. The right-hander also struck out two.
 
Reliever Jon Huizinga picked up the win in the night cap pitching the final 1 innings. The fourth Vipers' pitcher of the night allowed two hits and struck out one.
 
Trailing 4-1 in Game 2, Yuma loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth and tied the game with three runs. Deivis Rivadeneira, Adolfo Gomez and Reynaldo Rodriguez each drove in runs in the inning.
 
Vipers' Fehlandt Lentini scored the game-winner in the top of the seventh inning on a single by Nelson Calgary off reliever Emiliano Fruto (0-2). Lentini was 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
 
The Vipers (24-13) scored three runs in the top of the third of the opener as Yuma starter Ronald Ramirez struggled with his control. The left-hander walked three batters, tossed two wild pitches and gave up two hits.
 
The second walk loaded the bases and the third walked in Lentini to start the scoring. A wild pitch plated the second run and a Drew Miller single to right field drove in the third.
 
On Miller's RBI single, Joe Jiannetti was thrown out at home by right fielder Jonathan Lozada. Jiannetti bulled over catcher Jose Mosquera, who then had to be helped off the field following the collision and did not return in top of the fourth. Carlos Pupo replaced Mosquera at catcher.
 
Ramirez (1-5) took the loss, pitching in and out of trouble over his six innings of work. He gave up three runs on five hits and three walks. He also struck out three.
 
Yuma tacked on two runs in the bottom of the second to get within a run, 3-2.
 
Carlos Arroyo drove in Lozada, who reached on a single to open the inning, and moved to second on a Vipers' fielding error by first baseman Jiannetti. Rivadeneira scored on the error.
 
Rivadeneira went 2-for-4 as did Diover Avila.
 
Arroyo had three hits in the second game, including a double in the fourth, and scored twice.
 
In Game 2, Calgary took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, taking advantage of a Scorpions newcomer Eric Sheridan, who was signed earlier in the day.
 
The Vipers' Lentini scored on a passed ball after reaching on a single, moving to second on an errant pickoff attempt and then taking third on a wild pitch.
 
Arroyo scored on sacrifice from Pupo to even the game at 1 in the bottom of the second inning.