PawSox Bested by Toledo
June 21, 2013 - International League (IL1)
Pawtucket Red Sox News Release
TOLEDO, OHIO -- Several missed opportunities at the plate and a series of lapses in the field conspired to cost the Pawtucket Red Sox their first loss in six games, as they fell Friday to the Toledo Mud Hens by an 8-5 final in front of 10,750 fans at Fifth Third Field.
Pawtucket carried a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the fourth inning, thanks to a pair of unearned runs off Toledo starter Derek Hankins. Mitch Maier doubled home Jeremy Hazelbaker, who reached on an error in the first, before Brandon Snyder, who doubled, scored on miscue in the fourth.
Nonetheless, the PawSox squandered chances to expand their lead by stranding five runners, including four in scoring position, in those four innings and left another at third base the following frame. They wound up finishing 2-for-13 with men in scoring position.
Their early lead disappeared after knuckleballer Steven Wright saw Danny Worth triple on a misjudged fly ball with one out in Toledo's half of the fourth. Wright (L, 3-5) then loaded the bases with consecutive walks, before surrendering a sacrifice fly by Danny Dorn and an RBI single by Ben Guez.
The Mud Hens snapped the 2-2 tie following another of Wright's five walks, starting the last of the fifth inning. Worth capitalized with a go-ahead RBI single and Dorn added a two-run double to make it 5-2.
Xander Bogaerts homered to start the sixth inning for Pawtucket, but Hankins (W, 3-3) minimized the damage and turned over a 5-3 lead to one of the International League's most reliable bullpens.
Mud Hens' lefty Matt Hoffman and right-hander Brayan Villareal each pitched a scoreless inning, enabling their teammates to break it open in the eighth.
Facing Ryan Rowland-Smith, Guez ignited the uprising with a triple and came home on Ramon Cabrera's infield single. Cabrera then scored when right-fielder Jeremy Hazelbaker dropped Kevin Russo's fly ball. Worth followed with another single, driving in the last of three unearned runs allowed by the Sox.
With Toledo closer Bruce Rondon working in a non-save situation, Dan Butler blasted his fifth home run, a two-run shot, in the top of the ninth. Rondon retired the next three batter, however, to snap the Mud Hens' three-game losing skid and the Sox's five-game winning streak.
At 4-1 on its current eight-day trip, Pawtucket looks to even its current series behind Rubby De La Rosa (1-1, 2.89), who faces Robbie Weinhardt (2-0, 3.90) at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
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