Brian O’Grady homered off Lucas Galdoni in the bottom of the eighth inning, breaking a 4-4 tie and sending the Cleburne Railroaders to their second straight one run win over the Dogs, taking game two of the series, 5-4.

Cleburne scored four runs off Kenny Serwa, all in the fourth inning. An RBI single from Korey Holland and a bases clearing double by Brett Boswell gave the Railroaders a 4-0 lead. The Dogs would score three runs in the top of the fifth without a hit leaving the infield. A balk and two bases loaded walks would bring Chicago within a run at 4-3.

The Dogs would tie it in the seventh as Dusty Stroup would hit his 13^th homerun of the year and his fifth in the last seven games. In the bottom of the eighth, O’Grady would take a 2-2 pitch to the opposite field off Galdoni over the left field wall, for his 18^th homerun of the season giving Cleburne a 5-4 lead.

The Dogs would have their chances in the eighth and ninth, but they had three runners thrown out at home plate and they stranded five baserunners in those innings as well. The loss drops the Dogs to 40-37, six games behind Cleburne for first place and two and a half games ahead of both Milwaukee and Lake Country for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Division.

These two teams will go at it again tomorrow night at 7:06pm as John Baker (5-3 3.84) will face off against Luke Boyd (5-1 4.47). All Chicago Dogs games are streamed live and free on aabaseball.tv