Big Inning Propels Mudcats to Victory
June 25, 2025 - Carolina League (CarL)
Carolina Mudcats News Release
SALISBURY, M.D. - The Carolina Mudcats scored five runs in the top of the sixth inning and made that hold up as they went on to defeat the Delmarva Shorebirds 5-4 on Wednesday night at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium.
Carolina (4-1 // 40-29) trailed 1-0 as they came to bat in the sixth but turned the game around when Luis Pena tied the score with a double to left.
Later in the inning, Jose Anderson cracked a three-run home run, his third of the season, to put the Mudcats in front 4-1. Carolina added a very important insurance run in the same frame when Filippo Di Turi scored on a wild pitch for a 5-1 advantage.
Delmarva (1-4 // 28-43) would not go quietly as came back with a pair of runs in the last of the sixth inning on a two-run home run off the bat of Elis Cuevas to trim the Mudcats lead to 5-3.
The Shorebirds pulled to within a run in the in the seventh thanks to a Nate George groundout to cut the lead to 5-4.
Delmarva got the winning run to the plate with two out in the ninth inning but Garrett Hodges (S, 3) stranded the runner on base and preserved the 5-4 victory and ran the Mudcats record to 16-9 in one-run games.
Wande Torres (W, 1-5) worked five innings allowing just one run and striking out six to record his first win of the season.
The series continues Thursday night at 7:05 P.M. as the Mudcats send RHP Melvin Hernandez (5-4, 2.40) while the Shorebirds counter with RHP Evan Yates (3-2, 4.78).
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