Oakland starter Zach St. Pierre suppressed Ogden through 6 1/3 innings and the Ballers found enough cushion against the Raptors’ bullpen for an 8-6 victory in front of 3,884 fans at Lindquist Field, ending Ogden’s three-game winning streak.

The game breezed through five innings in 1 hour as Gutierrez and St. Pierre worked extra efficiently and the score sat at 1-1.

By the ninth inning, Oakland second baseman Daniel Harris hit a three-run homer off Christian Griffin, parked onto the clubhouse roof in left-center, to cap the scoring for the visitors in the top of the ninth and put the Ballers ahead 8-2.

But the Raptors got things moving in the bottom of the ninth and threatened with singles against Oakland closer James Colyer. Kenny Oyama scored Kyler Stancato with a hit and came around on an Elliott Good bloop to right, cutting the margin to 8-4.

The Ballers handed the ball to Connor Sullivan but a wild pitch put two in scoring position, which catcher Chris Sargent cashed in with a single to center — suddenly making it 8-6 and bringing the tying run to the plate.

But after a few fouloffs, Sullivan got Carmine Lane to tap back to the mound and end the game.

Earlier, when hits and runs were more at a premium, Ogden (11-11) right fielder Stancato scored on a Good single up the middle to give the Raptors a 1-0 lead in the third.

Ballers (14-8) third baseman Cameron Bufford answered in the top of the fourth, depositing a solo homer just over the centerfield side of Raptor Ridge in right-center to tie it 1-1.

Oakland started to chip at Gutierrez in the fifth with two singles, but the lefthander locked in and struck out the side to get out of it, keeping the score 1-1. Meanwhile in the bottom of the fifth, St. Pierre needed just six pitches to dispatch Ogden’s side.

Gutierrez, a 23-year-old who spent three years in the Atlanta Braves affiliated system, couldn’t hold Oakland back from there. Davis Drewek doubled, scored on a Bufford line-drive single to right, and Bufford scored on a Daniel Harris single to take a 3-1 lead.

Gutierrez finished allowing three earned runs on eight hits, striking out seven and walking zero.

St. Pierre pitched into the seventh as well but got the hook after giving up a one-out single to Ogden second baseman True Fontenot. St. Pierre struck out just one but also walked zero, induced 11 groundouts among his 19 outs, threw only 67 pitches, and allowed one run on five hits in his 6 1/3.

Oakland’s staff entered Friday with a league-best 4.28 ERA, the third-most strikeouts and second-fewest home runs allowed.

It fell apart for Raptors pitching there; you could count the number of baserunners Ogden’s bullpen allowed in three wins against Great Falls but the Ballers immediately opened things up with Gutierrez in the dugout. Drewek, first baseman Christian Almanza and catcher Tyler Lozano each doubled against Ogden righthander Shawn Triplett to build a 5-1 lead.

The Raptors had a bit of a carousel going with four singles in the bottom of the eighth; a Lane base hit plated Good to make it 5-2, but an Evan Blum single resulted in Cole Jordan being thrown out at the plate to end the threat after he blew threw a stop sign at third base.

The two teams play again at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and finish the series at 1 p.m. Sunday.