Lugnuts drop another one-run affair to Whitecaps
June 14, 2005 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Lansing Lugnuts News Release
COMSTOCK PARK- Andrew Kown limited the Lugnuts(33-31) to three hits in seven innings as the West Michigan Whitecaps(30-35) scored a pair of runs in the first inning and made it stand up as they defeated Lansing by a 2-1 score at Fifth Third Ballpark on Tuesday night. Lansing's loss combined with a win by South Bend elimnated the Lugnuts from the first half Eastern Division title and also sent them 2.5 games behind Fort Wayne in the wild-card chase after the Wizards swept a doubleheader from Southwest Michigan. Five games remain in the first half.
The Whitecaps got all the runs they would need in the first inning off Russ Savickas(1-2) as with one out and the bases empty, Nick McIntyre doubled to left center. A walk to Jeff Frazier set the scene for back-to-back RBI hits from Wilkin Ramirez and Brent Dlugach to give West Michigan a 2-0 lead. Ramirez's RBI single plated McIntyre and Dlugach's double sent home Frazier. Still, Savickas settled down and fanned the next two hitters to end the inning. The righthander worked six innings and scattered seven hits, allowing only three over the final five frames he worked in but got no offensive support and was saddled with the loss.
Lansing got a two-hit night from David Corrente, but not much else against Kown(2-6) and Anthony Tomey, who retired all six batters he faced in the eighth and ninth innings to earn his third save. The Lugnuts' lone run came off Kown in the fifth when Corrente singled off Kown, took third on a single by newest Lugnut Eugenio Velez and came home on a sacrifice fly by Jason Armstrong. The Lugnuts stranded runners in scoring position in the sixth and seventh and in all left on five runners.
Jeremy Harper worked a pair of shutout innings behind Savickas for the Lugnuts and fanned three hitters, but Lansing saw their final seven hitters get retired by Kown and Tomey after Corrente's two-out double in the seventh.
The Lugnuts wrapup their three-game set with West Michigan tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. EST as Chi-Hung Cheng goes in what is now a pivotal game for the Lugnuts in the prequel to the final four games of the half against Fort Wayne. Matt Righter will be on the hill for West Michigan, which was eliminated from first half playoff possibilities when Fort Wayne defeated Southwest Michigan.
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