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Indians Outlast Bats Behind Walks, Ritchie's Four Hits

August 7, 2022 - International League (IL)
Indianapolis Indians News Release


INDIANAPOLIS - Jamie Ritchie recorded a career-high tying four hits and Travis Swaggerty took a career-high four walks as the Indianapolis Indians outlasted the Louisville Bats in a back-and-forth, high-scoring affair on Sunday afternoon at Victory Field, 11-8.

With the game tied 8-8 in the bottom of the seventh inning, Ritchie roped his third hit of the night to right-field to give Indianapolis (51-52) its first lead since the second inning against Matt Pidich (L, 4-4). He ended the day with his fourth career-high four-hit game and first since June 6, 2021 with Triple-A Reno vs. Sacramento.

A sacrifice fly two batters after Ritchie's go-ahead single and a run-scoring groundout off the bat of Jared Oliva plated insurance runs for the Indians. Eric Hanhold (S, 5) entered for the final two frames and recorded the only two three-batter innings of the game by an Indians pitcher.

After Indianapolis scored first in the bottom of the second inning on a two-out, RBI single by Ritchie, Louisville (43-62) took a lead and piled on for a four-run lead with two in the third and three in the fourth. All five of the Bats' runs in those frames came with two outs.

Trailing by four, the Indians put up crooked numbers in their next four offensive half innings to crawl to a lead. Drew Maggi smoked a two-run double down the left-field line to bring the score to 5-3 with two outs in the bottom of the fourth.

Both teams then went back-and-forth through the next two innings, with Indianapolis outscoring Louisville by one run in each to tie the game. In the fifth, Diego Castillo offset a one-run double by Michael De Leon in the top half with a two-run single past the third baseman's glove, bringing Indy within one. A two-run double by Ronnie Dawson off Noe Toribio (W, 2-1) in the top of the sixth was then erased by three runs in the Indians' half inning. A run-scoring groundout, wild pitch and costly, game-tying throwing error by third baseman Juniel Quercuto to score Rodolfo Castro all the way from first base to tie the game at 8-8.

Swaggerty went 0-for-1 with a career-high four walks, besting his previous career-high of three walks last matched on July 11, 2019 with High-A Bradenton Lakeland. Mason Martin recorded his sixth career-high three-walk game, his first since July 1, 2019 with Single-A Greensboro at Hagertown. The Indians walked a total of 12 times compared to just 10 hits.

Following an off day on Monday, the Indians are set to begin a six-game series against the Memphis Redbirds at AutoZone Park, with first pitch on Tuesday scheduled for 8:05 PM ET. Both teams have yet to name starting pitchers.

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