MWL1 Lake County Captains

Fort Wayne Powers by Captains 11-4

Published on June 29, 2011 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Lake County Captains News Release


(Eastlake, OH)- A pair of two run homeruns, in the first inning, by Luis Domoromo and Wes Cunningham lifted Fort Wayne to a 4-0 lead and never looked back. The TinCaps defeated the Captains 11-4 on Wednesday afternoon.

Lake County made it 4-1 in the second inning on an RBI single by Carlos Moncrief that scored Aaron Fields who reached on a single to center, his first hit of the season.

In the third inning, Domoromo singled to lead off. Connor Powers doubled to left putting runners on second and third. Domoromo scored on a Jordan Cooper wild pitch. Cunningham singled to center scoring Powers to make it 6-1.

In the fourth inning, the TinCaps made it 8-1. Tyler Stubblefield was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Cunningham drove in his fourth RBI walking with the bases full.

With the bases loaded for Fort Wayne in the fifth inning, Stubblefield singled off the foot of Bryce Stowell scoring a run, giving the TinCaps a 9-1 lead.

In the bottom half the fifth the Captains loaded the bases, with a single from Argenis Martinez and Jordan Casas and a walk to Jesus Aguilar. Moises Montero singled up the middle for his first hit and RBI of the season. Aaron Fields singled for the second time, driving in his first RBI of the year. Nick Bartolone finshed the inning with a sacrifice fly to leftfield as the Captains cut into the lead at 9-4.

In the sixth inning, Captains' reliever Luis Encarnacion walked three and threw a wild pitch as the TinCaps scored two more for an 11-4 lead.

Mark Hardy (4-7) picked up the win for Fort Wayne tossing five innings, allowing four runs on ten hits, walking two and striking out two. Jordan Cooper (2-3) suffered the loss working 3.1 allowing a career high eight runs and 11 eleven hits, walking one and striking out four.

Lake County will continue the home stand on Wednesday as they welcome in South Bend for three beginning at 7:00PM at Classic Park. The Captains will start LHP Mike Rayl (5-2) vs. RHP Bradin Hagen s (4-3) for the SilverHawks. Catch all the action on AM 1330 WELW or online at captainsbaseball.com.




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