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Monster Night for Torres, Cunningham and Akins Leads T-Bones to Victory

July 17, 2018 - American Association (AA)
Kansas City Monarchs News Release


CLEBURNE, TX. - The names Torres, Cunningham and Adkins sound like the name of a fancy high-dollar law

Firm, and on Monday night at Cleburne, the trio help lay down the law in 10-4 win for the Kansas City T-Bones over the Cleburne Railroaders at the Depot.

Hunter Adkins (4-2) would pick up his fourth win of the season as he would toss seven strong innings, allowing two earned runs on only four hits. It was the second night in a row for the T-Bones where the starter went seven plus innings, only allowing two earned runs.

Dylan Mouzakes (1-5), the starter for Cleburne, would go six strong innings, allowing three earned runs on four hits.

The Railroaders and T-Bones would be be held scoreless until the top of the fourth inning where the T-Bones Nick Torres would double as Colin Walsh would come around to score. Taylor Featherston would then hit his fourth home run of the season as he would hit a two-run shot over the left field wall.

Cleburne would answer back in the bottom of the fifth as KC Huth would launch a solo home run off Adkins for his first of the season. Railroaders would answer again, this time in the bottom of the sixth as Cam Monger would double to cut the T-Bones lead to one.

Kansas City would knock out Mouzakes after six and would open the floodgates off Cleburne's bullpen, scoring three in the top of the seventh. The inning started with Adrien Nieto walking; then Keith Curcio would single to put runners on first and second. A wild pitch would advance the runners before Dexter Kjerstad would load the bases up with a walk. The next batter, Dylan Tice, would walk to score a run. Then Todd Cunningham would come through in the clutch with a bases-loaded double to score two more to make the score 6-2.

Nick Lee would pitch one inning, allowing one run for Kansas City as Levi Scott would blast his eighth home run of the season for the Railroaders, making it 6-3.

Kansas City would add some insurance runs in ninth inning as Todd Cunningham would single for his third RBI of the night,scoring Keith Curcio. Two batters later, Nick Torres would crush a three-run shot in the ninth for his fifth of the season.

Cleburne would score one run in the ninth as well, but that was it for them as they fell to the T-Bones 10-4.

The T-Bones have now won two in a row as they take the series opener. Todd Cunningham and Nick Torres would combine to go 4-10, driving in six runs. The T-Bones will look to win their third game in a row tomorrow against the Railroaders as first pitch will be at 7:06 in Cleburne.

Season, group, mini-plans and nightly party suites are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting the Box Office at T-Bones Stadium. Call the Box Office at 913-328-5618 or purchase and print at www.tbonesbaseball.com. Box office hours are 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday - Friday and 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Saturday. For additional information or interview requests, members of the media may contact the T-Bones Media Relations Department at (817) 739-3693. Stay tuned to tbonesbaseball.com and the T-Bones Facebook and Twitter pages for updates throughout the season.

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