Charleston rallies from four down, beats York 7-6 to sweep weekend

Charleston turned a four-run deficit into a 7-6 win over York on Sunday at GoMart Ballpark in Charleston, West Virginia, closing the weekend by taking the last two games of the series. The Dirty Birds scored the final seven runs, then held on after Shawon Dunston Jr. launched the go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth.

York struck first by batting around in the second inning and building a 4-0 lead. Jackson Ross opened with a double, Ben Blackwell followed with an RBI double, and after Mike Rosario walked, a Jaylen Smith error let another run score. Austin Bates added an RBI single, and Brian Rey finished the burst with a sacrifice fly.

The Revolution stretched the margin to 6-0 in the fifth when Rey greeted reliever Francisco Mateo with an opposite-field solo homer to right, extending his hitting streak to 14 games and his on-base streak to 33. Charleston answered in the bottom half with three runs, including Carlos De La Cruz’s two-run homer.

The Dirty Birds pulled closer in the sixth on Jaylen Smith’s RBI single. Bates threw out Narciso Crook trying to steal in the seventh and later picked off James Nelson with the bases loaded to end the sixth, two plays that kept York from adding the insurance run.

Dunston’s eighth-inning blast finished the reversal. York had won three straight before Charleston stopped the run on June 27 and again on June 28.