McDade, Lugnuts Top 'Caps, 5-2
Published on April 28, 2009 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Lansing Lugnuts News Release
COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. - First baseman Mike McDade bashed a three-run homer and made several sterling defensive plays to lead the Lansing Lugnuts (4-13) to a 5-2 victory over the host West Michigan Whitecaps (13-4) on Tuesday night at Fifth Third Ballpark.
With the win, the Lugnuts avoided a four-game series sweep at the hands of West Michigan. The games mark the only times in the 2009 regular season that Lansing is scheduled to play at Fifth Third Ballpark.
Trailing 1-0 in the second inning, Lansing right fielder Yohermyn Chavez led off with a single against West Michigan starter Mauricio Robles (2-1). Mark Sobolewski followed with a sharp single of his own, moving Chavez to second base, and McDade plated both men with his second home run of the season, a towering drive off the light pole behind the wall in left-center. Later in the inning, a Kenny Wilson RBI single provided Lansing with a 4-1 lead.
Robles would leave the game due to unspecified injury in the top of the fifth inning, an at-bat that also saw a Tyler Pastornicky grounder take a wicked hop off of the face of West Michigan third baseman Ronnie Bourquin. Bourquin finished the inning but was later replaced at third by Luis Palacios.
Lugnuts starter John Anderson pitched in and out of trouble in his four innings, allowing seven hits and a walk but only one run. He yielded to reliever Frank Gailey (1-1) for the fifth and sixth frames, allowing Gailey to pick up the win.
The two teams exchanged solo tallies -- Lansing on an RBI single by Balbino Fuenmayor in the sixth, scoring McDade, and West Michigan on an RBI groundout by Bryan Pounds in the eighth -- before Lugnuts relief pitcher Matt Daly recorded the final three outs for his first save of the season.
The Lugnuts begin a three-game series at Kane County on Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m., with left-hander Chuck Huggins (0-1, 2.45) starting for Lansing against Cougars lefty Pedro Figueroa (2-0, 2.40).
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