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Big inning dooms Whitecaps in Lansing

Published on May 9, 2008 under Midwest League (MWL1)
West Michigan Whitecaps News Release


LANSING - Lansing used two walks, a hit batsman, and three hits to score five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning in a 7-3 win over the Whitecaps.

Alfredo Figaro made the start for West Michigan and was coming off a complete game shutout Sunday against Quad Cities. He allowed two runs in the first inning to double his RBI total for the year, but went six innings total in and took his first loss of the season (4-1). Figaro's ERA went from a Minor League-best 0.46 to 0.80.

West Michigan scored in the top of the first inning when Roger Tomas was hit by a pitch to start the game and eventually crossed home thanks to a throwing error by shortstop Justin Jackson.

In the bottom of the first, Figaro hit Darin Mastroianni with a pitch to start the inning. Mastroianni scored on a throwing error on a pick-off try by Figaro. Justin Jackson, who singled to reach base, crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly by C. J. Ebarb the put the Lugnuts on top, 2-1.

Brad Mills pitched 6.1 innings as the Lansing starter and allowed one unearned run on three hits and a walk with eight strikeouts to pick up the win (2-2).

Following an inning of scoreless relief by Wilton Garcia, Noah Krol started the eighth inning on the mound for the Whitecaps. He issued a walk, then a hit by pitch and allowed a single to load the bases before he walked John Tolisano to force in a run and make the score, 3-1. At that point, West Michigan manager Joe DePastino was ejected for the first time in his professional managerial career.

Rudy Darrow then came in to pitch and allowed a threerun triple into the right field corner off the bat of Manny Rodriguez, which broke the game open and made the score, 6-1.

In the top of the ninth, Chris Carlson and Casper Wells became the first Whitecaps players to hit back-to-back home runs since Gorkys Hernandez and James Skelton on July 31, 2007 against Peoria. Wells leads the Whitecaps with four home runs.

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