Bees blow six-run lead, fall to River Cats in 10 innings
Salt Lake led 6-0 behind George Klassen’s no-hit start, then watched Sacramento score seven straight and win on a throwing error in the 10th.
Salt Lake had a six-run lead and George Klassen had not allowed a hit through 6.1 innings. By the end of the night at Sutter Health Park, the Bees were leaving West Sacramento with a 7-6 loss in 10 innings and their first walk-off defeat of the 2026 season.
On July 7, Bryce Teodosio started the scoring with a solo homer in the third, Ben Gobbel was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, and Yolmer Sánchez added an RBI single to make it 3-0. Salt Lake added two in the fourth when Kyren Paris lined a two-run double, then one more in the fifth on Ryan Nicholson’s sacrifice fly for a 6-0 cushion.
Klassen did almost everything asked of him before the bullpen took over. The right-hander struck out five, walked four and threw 102 pitches, 62 for strikes, while carrying the no-hit bid into the seventh. He was lifted after the pitch count climbed and two walks in the inning forced the issue, and Sacramento responded with a seven-run rally. Nate Furman delivered the biggest blow with a two-run double as the River Cats scored five times in the seventh, then got the tying run home in the eighth on Dayson Croes’s sacrifice fly.
The Bees still had chances to settle it before Sacramento finished the comeback. Both teams went quietly in the ninth, but Salt Lake could not answer in the 10th, and the bottom half unraveled on a ground ball that should have ended the inning. Instead, the play was bobbled and thrown away, letting the winning run score with two outs.
Salt Lake finished with nine hits and one error, Sacramento with five hits, six walks and one error. The game lasted 3 hours and 14 minutes before 3,005 fans. Salt Lake entered the opener at 39-35 after a first half its best since 2018, led the Pacific Coast League with 25 home wins and topped all of Triple-A with 394 walks through 74 games.
Just a day earlier, Ben Gobbel and Klassen were named Pacific Coast League Player and Pitcher of the Week, with Gobbel coming off a .435 week with four homers, 12 RBI and eight runs, and Klassen fresh off nine strikeouts over seven innings against Las Vegas.
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