
Four-Run Third Too Much to Overcome, BG Falls 5-1
June 20, 2015 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Bowling Green Hot Rods News Release
Bowling Green, Ky. - Bowling Green dropped its season-high sixth game in a row Saturday night, as the Fort Wayne TinCaps clinched the final series of the first half with a 5-1 win over the Hot Rods in front of 7,751 fans at Parkview Field.
Bowling Green's (37-32) skid is the most consecutive defeats since last April, when the Hot Rods dropped a franchise-record 13 straight. Bowling Green is also on the verge of being swept for the second straight series after not being swept at all in 2015 before entering the Lansing series on Tuesday.
In the bottom of the first inning, Fort Wayne (31-36) drew first blood, when Franmil Reyes knocked home Michael Gettys on a RBI single, taking the 1-0 lead. Gettys finished 4-for-5 for the TinCaps.
Hot Rod starter Hyrum Formo experienced deeper trouble in the third, as three of the first four batters of the inning reached, when Nick Torres led off the frame with a single to right field and moved to second base on a Trae Santos walk. After a Reyes flyout to centerfield, Franchy Cordero singled into centerfield, scoring Torres, to give the TinCaps a 2-0 lead. Santos made it 3-0, scoring on a Luis Tejada groundout, while back-to-back two-out RBI doubles from Jose Ruiz and Chase Jensen bumped the Fort Wayne cushion to 5-0.
Formo's (4-2) day ended after that four-run frame, logging just 3.0 innings and allowing five runs on seven hits while striking out and walking two in his first loss in six starts dating back to May 13.
Thomas Milone scored the only run of the game for Bowling Green, leading off the sixth inning with a single and moving to second base on Jace Conrad's infield single, which broke a 0-for-18 slump. Bralin Jackson's groundout moved both runners into scoring positon, then Milone scored from third with Casey Gillaspie at the plate on a wild pitch from Fort Wayne starter Ernesto Montas, cutting the TinCaps advantage to 5-1.
That would be all the Hot Rods mustered, but the Bowling Green bullpen kept the TinCaps at bay for the final 5.0 innings. Damion Carroll, Kyle Bird and All-Star Hunter Wood combined to shut out Fort Wayne on four hits and four strikeouts. Bowling Green's bullpen has now tossed scoreless ball in 11 straight innings.
Montas (6-4) permitted just three hits and one run over 6.0 innings, while setting a season-high with five strikeouts.
Bowling Green left nine men on base and went just 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position, despite six of the nine starters collecting at least one hit. All-Stars Conrad and Gillaspie notched two hits each.
The first half of the 2015 season comes to an end on Sunday at 12:05 p.m. CDT, when Henry Centeno (4-3, 4.99) opposes the newest TinCap in lefty Brad Wieck (3-5, 3.21 with Savannah), who makes his first start in the Midwest League after coming to the Padres as the "player to be named later" in the MLB deal that involved big league reliever Alex Torres going to the Mets in March.
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