Muckdogs Take Series from Spikes, Win Third of Their Last Five with 5-4 Victory
August 2, 2018 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Batavia Muckdogs News Release
STATE COLLEGE, PA - The Muckdogs picked up their third win in five days on Wednesday afternoon in Medlar Field at Lubrano Park by topping the Spikes 5-4. The game didn't pick up at its expected time of 12:00 p.m. due to rains that pushed first pitch all the way back to 2:20 p.m.
Once the game finally got underway, Batavia did not waste any time getting on the board. Sean Reynolds went deep to left field and got the Muckdogs their first lead of the game, making it 1-0 going to the bottom of the first.
The lead doubled with an RBI double from Luke Jarvis, his first extra-base hit as a pro. His shot off the right field wall scored Igor Baez, and put Batavia up by a pair.
State College halved the lead in the bottom of the second as a result of a Brady Whalen home run. Whalen, a switch hitter batting from the left side, hit the fifth home run Humberto Mejia has given up this season. All five of those home runs had been from left-handed batters.
A pair of errors from the Spikes in the top of the fifth opened another scoring window in the top of the fifth. Lars Nootbaar dropped a Brayan Hernandez fly ball in left field that he lost in the sun, and then Stanley Espinal airmailed a throw from the hole on the left side to put Demetius Sims on. Hernandez came in to score on a ball that squeaked away from the catcher Alexis Wilson. Immediately after, Sean Reynolds smacked an RBI double to score Sims and cash in on both of the Spikes' errors.
Tyler Kolek came on in relief of Mejia, Kolek ended up as the winning pitcher in the ballgame in his three innings of relief. He retired his first six batters, and gave up just one run in the seventh. When he came out of the game, Batavia still held a 4-2 lead.
Once again, Batavia answered with a run of their own, JD Osborne slugged a double to the left center gap to score Jerar Encarnacion. Encarnacion was the third run to score that reached on an error.
CJ Carter and Elkin Alcala closed out the game for the final six outs. Nick Dunn drove in his second and third runs in the game with a two-run shot into the right field bleachers. In a 5-4 game, Alcala got the final out after giving up the homer to give the Muckdogs the win.
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