Homer in Fifth Gives Quakes Lead for Good
July 29, 2015 - California League (CalL1)
Lancaster JetHawks News Release
LANCASTER, Calif. - After taking a two-run lead into the fifth inning, the JetHawks were unable to overcome a three-run homer and a four-run seventh for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in a 9-6 loss on Tuesday night at The Hangar.
J.D. Davis and Derek Fisher both homered for the JetHawks (52-49). Fisher totaled three hits, and Davis and Marc Wik added two each.
Starter Bryan Radziewski (3-4) labored through 4.1 innings for Lancaster. The left-hander allowed a career-high two home runs and five runs total. Jordan Mills also struggled in relief, yielding four runs over two innings of work.
With Lancaster in the lead, 4-2, the Quakes (56-44) went ahead in the fifth inning on a three-run homer by Brandon Dixon. Tim Locastro and Delvis Morales had reached base on a hit-by-pitch and a single.
Trailing by one run entering the bottom of the third, the JetHawks got a one-out single from Fisher, who scored on a Davis double. Quakes starter Jeff Brigham then exited, and Wik and Chase McDonald both hit run-scoring doubles off reliever Karch Kowalczyk (1-1) for a two-run advantage.
The two clubs swapped runs in the second, as Joey Curletta gave Rancho Cucamonga an early lead with a RBI-triple before a James Ramsay RBI-single tied the score. In the third, Cody Bellinger put the Quakes back in the lead with a solo homer. Bellinger hit his second home run of the game against Mills to spark a four-run seventh inning.
Andrew Walter tossed 2.2 innings of scoreless relief for the JetHawks, allowing just two hits and striking out five.
The rubber game will be played Wednesday with first pitch first pitch scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Keegan Yuhl (2-0, 1.54) will pitch for Lancaster against Rancho Cucamonga's Chase De Jong (1-1, 6.10). The JetHawks will team with High Desert Medical Group to host Family Night Wednesday. Fans can receive four game tickets, four hot dogs and four sodas for $50.
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