Springdale, AR – The Tulsa Drillers took late leads in both games with Northwest Arkansas Sunday afternoon at Arvest Ballpark, but both disappeared in a pair of close losses to the Naturals.
In the resumption of Saturday’s suspended game, Tulsa carried a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, but the Naturals erased their deficit with two runs in the seventh and one more in the eighth to record a 5-3 win. In the regularly scheduled game, a three-run fifth gave the Drillers another lead, but the Naturals responded with two runs in the bottom half of the inning to rally for a 5-4 victory in game that lasted seven innings.
It was a tough ending for the Drillers in a series that started promisingly with two wins in the first three games, but the Naturals won the final three games to take the series 4 games to 2. Tulsa held leads in all three of those defeats…