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"We just gave another one away," Twisters manager Gregg Hunt said. "Danbury scored three runs early that they shouldn't have and that cost us an opportunity to win this game."
Trailing 3-0 in the fifth, the Twisters loaded the bases with no outs courtesy of a double by Seth Iorg, a walk to Anthony Norman and error by Danbury pitcher Adam Ottavino on Matt Oxendine's grounder.
Reliever Matt Restivo induced Jeff Natale into a 6-6-3 double play that allowed the first run to score, but walked Shea McFeely and Nate Jaggers and Restivo was then pulled in favor of Bethel native Luke Calzone, who promptly issued a walk to Nick DeVito to load the bases.
Jon Hodach followed with his biggest hit as Twister, a line drive single down the right field line to give Torrington a 4-3 lead.
Danbury, however, tied the game on a Jon Newton home run off starter Jeff Hourigan.
In the sixth, Jaggers smacked his first home run of the season to left for a 5-4 Torrington advantage.
"I'm feeling real good at the plate right now," said Jaggers, who entered the game with a .353 batting average. "Sometimes the ball looks very big and other times it looks very small. Right now it's looking big to me and I'm very confident."
The Twisters lead was short-lived, though, as Darcy walked the lead-off hitter, Dennis Winn, who eventually came around to score on a wild pitch with two outs to knot the game at 5-5.
Torrington had a chance to break the tie in the ninth when Natale worked out a lead-off walk. But Hunt chose not to bunt McFeely - the team's cleanup hitter - and the third baseman hit a smash to left field, but it was caught by Joyce. Jaggers then grounded into a double play to end the inning.
"I'm not going to bunt with my fourth hitter, especially with the way he's been hitting," Hunt said. "He ended up hitting a bullet, but that's the breaks you get sometimes."
One bad break Torrington got came in the fourth when DeVito fielder a grounder at first and threw home attempting to nail the runner Fred Popp. He was called safe, although it appeared he never touched home as Hodach blocked the plate.
Despite pitching at an extremely hitter's friendly ballpark, Hourigan was impressive, recording 12 strikeouts, while walking just one in six innings of work. He allowed four earned runs.
"I couldn't get any quick innings or I could've went longer," said Hourigan, who threw 110 pitches. "I arm felt great, but unfortunately I threw eight innings worth of pitches in six."
"Jeff threw too many pitches," Hunt agreed. "We weren't going to let him go any further today when it could ended hurting us in a couple of weeks."
