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Carlson powers Cards to Gulf Coast League title
- Updated: September 7, 2016
The GCL Cardinals bent but didn’t break in the deciding third game of the Gulf Coast League championship on Wednesday, rallying to beat the GCL Phillies, 4-2, to take home the title.
In the final game, the Cardinals overcame a 2-0 first-inning deficit, scoring a run in the fourth and taking the lead for good with a three-run sixth, while their pitchers shut out the Phillies the rest of the way. Starter Juan Alvarez allowed just the two runs, one earned, in 5 1/3 innings, and Colton Thomson closed out the game and the championship with 3 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Phillies first baseman Danny Zardon accounted for both his team’s runs with a two-RBI knock in the first, capping a strong postseason in which the 21-year-old batted .357 with a 1.009 OPS.
The Cardinals’ comeback started in the fourth inning, when left fielder Dylan Carlson, the organization’s No. 21 prospect according to MLBPipeline.com, worked a two-out walk. He eventually scored on a Wadye Ynfante single to get his team on the board.
The score was still 2-1 in the sixth when Carlson, St. Louis’ second first-round pick in the 2016 Draft, brought home the game-tying run with an RBI groundout. Two batters later, the 17-year-old scored the go-ahead run, which would hold up as the series-winner, on a throwing error by Phillies shortstop Cole Stobbe.
Stobbe, the Phillies’ No. 15 prospect, had a rough championship series. In addition to the error, he finished the …
