PCL1 Oklahoma City Comets

Dodgers Hit Back-to-Back Homers in 8-5 Win

June 26, 2019 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Oklahoma City Comets News Release


Oklahoma City - The Oklahoma City Dodgers scored eight straight runs, including back-to-back home runs in the seventh inning, in an 8-5 win against the New Orleans Baby Cakes Tuesday night at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

The win opened a four-game series between the teams and snapped a four-game losing skid for the Dodgers.

The Baby Cakes (42-36) built a 4-0 lead Tuesday to put the Dodgers behind early.

New Orleans loaded the bases in the third inning before back-to-back two-run singles by Lewis Brinson and Isan Diaz gave New Orleans a 4-0 lead.

Zach Reks led off the bottom of the fourth inning with a single for Oklahoma City. Later with one out, Edwin RÃ-os hit a two-run homer out to the Budweiser Deck in left field to cut New Orleans' lead to 4-2 in the fourth inning. The home run moved RÃ-os into a tie for the team lead with 14 homers this season.

Shane Peterson followed and reached base on catcher interference. He came around to score on a RBI double by Jake Peter to cut New Orleans' lead to one run. Blake Gailen followed with a RBI single that allowed Peter to score and knot the game, 4-4.

The Dodgers (31-45) loaded the bases in the fifth inning with one out and Rocky Gale was hit by pitch to bring in the go-ahead run, 5-4. With the bases loaded again, a wild pitch by Brian Moran allowed another run to score for a 6-4 Dodgers advantage.

Oklahoma City built up its lead in the seventh inning on two pitches.

Peterson led off and hit the first pitch he saw of the inning out to center field for a home run. Jake Peter followed and hit the first pitch of his at-bat out to right field for back-to-back homers and an 8-4 Dodgers lead.

The back-to-back home runs were the third of the season for the Dodgers and first since May 5 at New Orleans.

New Orleans' Lewis Brinson led off the eighth inning with a double, advanced to third on a groundout, then scored on a sacrifice fly by Austin Dean to cut OKC's lead to 8-5.

Kevin Quackenbush pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the Dodgers for his third save of the season.

Dodgers starting pitcher J.D. Martin (1-0) picked up a win in his team debut after being promoted from Double-A Tulsa. Martin allowed four runs and five hits over 7.0 innings with four walks and four strikeouts. His 7.0 innings pitched tied his season-high total with Tulsa.

New Orleans starting pitcher Dustin Beggs (6-4) was charged with the loss, allowing six runs (five earned) over 4.1 innings with three walks and three strikeouts.

The Dodgers continue their home series against the New Orleans Baby Cakes at 7:05 p.m. Wednesday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

Tickets are available through the OKC Dodgers ticket office located on South Mickey Mantle Drive, by phone at (405) 218-2182, or by visiting okcdodgers.com.

Live radio coverage of each game begins 15 minutes before first pitch on AM 1340 "The Game," 1340thegame.com and through the free iHeartRadio or MiLB First Pitch apps.

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