Josh Lowe powers Salt Lake’s wild comeback, Bees fall in 10th

Salt Lake’s Dirty Sodas identity fit the night perfectly, because the baseball turned just as wild as the branding. Down by six runs with nine outs left in South Jordan, Utah, the Bees stormed back behind Josh Lowe’s game-tying three-run homer in the ninth, then still fell 14-13 in 10 innings to the Albuquerque Isotopes.

The comeback gave the ballpark the feeling of a live show that kept changing acts. A six-run deficit with three outs left usually sends a Triple-A crowd thinking about the next game, not extra innings. Instead, Salt Lake forced the Isotopes to survive a ninth-inning blast from a player with enough big-league name recognition to make the swing feel even larger, and the game spilled into bonus baseball with the Dirty Sodas still very much alive.

It got even closer in the 10th. Salt Lake put the tying and winning runs aboard, but could not push either across, leaving the rally one hard-hit ball short of becoming a walk-off. That made the final 14-13 score feel less like a routine one-run loss and more like a night that swung from nearly over to nearly stolen in a matter of minutes.

Lowe’s homer was his ninth as a member of the Salt Lake Bees, a number that lined up with how often he showed up in the club’s own highlight cycle during the month. Salt Lake later spotlighted another Lowe home run on June 22, and the June 4 note on this game framed him as the bat that dragged the Bees back into the conversation when the result seemed settled.

OurSports Central’s game title, “Isotopes Hang on for 14-13 10-Inning Win,” captured the final line, but it does not really capture the chaos. This was the kind of Triple-A night that plays as much like entertainment as it does a box score: a branded alternate identity on the stage, a six-run hole, a ninth-inning rescue act from Josh Lowe, and a finish decided by one run after 10 innings.