The culprit has been the Coyotes defense which has committed three errors and led to all the runs in the third being unearned.

Two of the errors have been by the first baseman on what were catchable throws from third and the other error was a dropped fly ball in right field. The game started with a show over the left side of the infield and that shadow now stretches over to the first base dugout. There is some speculation in the press box as to whether or not that posed a problem.

Stefanie Pace just homered to left in the sixth to get the Coyotes on the scoreboard but they aren’t mounting much of an offense.

It’s a best-of-three series so maybe they can shake off the defensive issues and have a better outing on Saturday in the noon game.