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Bowling Green Clinches Lansing Series in Rain Shortened 4-2 Win

April 25, 2015 - Midwest League (MWL1)
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Bowling Green, Ky. - Justin Williams and Jace Conrad smacked solo home runs for Bowling Green (10-7), as the Hot Rods won their sixth game in a row, topping the Lansing Lugnuts (11-6) in a rain-shortened 4-2 seven-inning victory in front of 3,456 fans Saturday night at Bowling Green Ballpark.

With the win, Bowling Green has tied its longest win streak since May 2014 and has posted a 7-1 record thus far during the nine-game homestand, tying the most wins in a single homestand in franchise history. The six straight home victories are the most for the Hot Rods since April 2013.

For the second game in a row, the Lugnuts scored a first-inning, touching Bowling Green starter Chris Pike for four consecutive one-out hits, the last of which a Ryan McBroom RBI single to give Lansing a 1-0 lead, but it could have been a two-run knock had Dickie Joe Thon not been cut down at home on a relay from Williams to Casey Gillaspie to Nick Ciuffo for the out at home.

Bowling Green answered in the bottom of the second inning, when Williams sent the first pitch off the inning from Lansing starter Chase De Jong over the right-center field wall for his first home run as a Hot Rod to tie the game at 1-1.

Three more runs were scored consecutively by Bowling Green, with two coming in the fourth inning off of an RBI single from Coty Blanchard to again score Williams for a 2-1 cushion, while Taylor Hawkins added his second sacrifice fly of the homestand to bring Blanchard home, making the score 3-1 With two outs in the fifth, Conrad tucked a flyball inside the right-field foul pole for the second Hot Rods home run of the evening - and his second of the season - marking the first multi-home run game for the Hot Rods this year, giving Bowling Green a 4-1 lead.

Lansing got closer in the sixth, when Rowdy Tellez hit a leadoff single, knocking Pike out of the game for reliever Damion Carroll, who walked his first two batters before allowing a Danny Jansen sacrifice fly to trim the deficit to 4-2.

In the seventh, the Lugnuts put two on with one out before Carroll induced an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play off the bat of Tellez.

A lingering rain storm finally became too much to play through, as a nasty mixture of thunder and lightning forced the game to be called in the bottom of the seventh after a 30-minute delay.

Pike (2-1) picked up the victory, scattering nine hits over 5.0 innings but giving up just two runs with one walk and one strikeout. Carroll hummed 2.0 scoreless frames to extend the bullpen's streak to 23 innings without allowing a run.

Williams finished 2-for-3 with a pair of runs scored to accompany his home run, while Conrad's two-hit night accounted for his team-best sixth multi-hit game of the year and prolong his hitting streak to a career-best eight games.

Sunday's final game with the Lugnuts brings the first homestand of the year to a close, and will see Hot Rods right hander Enderson Franco (1-1, 2.45) take the bump to oppose Lansing's Starlyn Suriel (1-0, 1.35) in a 2:05 p.m. CDT start time at Bowling Green Ballpark.

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