Pheasants Launch Three Homers, Take Series from RailCats
Published on June 6, 2012 under American Association (AA)
Sioux Falls Canaries News Release
SIOUX FALLS -- The Sioux Falls Pheasants used the long ball to move past the Gary Southshore RailCats in a 4-1 victory Wednesday afternoon in Sioux Falls. The Pheasants took the rubber game to win their second straight series.
Trailing 1-0, the Pheasants smacked three home runs in the sixth inning, led by back-to-backs solo shots from Crisitan Guerrero and Mark Shorey.
"You know what, I'm just looking for good pitches and I've hit a couple good ones," said Guerrero, who homered in every game of the series. "I try to go up there and try be as focused as I can and take a good swing."
Guerrero belted his sixth home run of the season. Five have come against Gary SouthShore pitching.
Later in the inning, Trevor Lawhorn doubled, and Jake Taylor followed with a two-run blast to left field, his first home run of the year that gave Sioux Falls a 4-1 advantage.
Pheasants starter Mark Michael (2-2) earned the win with a quality start and kept the RailCats off the basepaths for most of the afternoon. After giving up a run on three hits and two walks in the first inning, Michael limited the RailCats to just two hits in the next six innings, retiring nine in a row in one stretch. He hurled seven innings total, allowing five hits, striking out six and walking three.
The RailCats plated one run in the first inning on Mike Massaro's single for an early 1-0 lead. Gary SouthShore threatened to add more, but two RailCats were caught in rundowns after Rico Washington singled to right, resulting in a double play.
RailCats starter Morgan Coombs (1-1) pitched five shutout innings before the rough sixth inning. He tossed 5 1/3 innings overall, giving up three runs on six hits, walking one and striking out six.
Jack Van Leur tossed a scoreless eighth in relief of Michael, and Cody Evans earned his third save of the year with a 1-2-3 ninth to seal the Pheasants' 10th victory.
Guerrero, Jonny Kaplan and Trevor Lawhorn each had multi-hit performances. Lawhorn doubled twice.
After an off day on Thursday, the Pheasants travel to St. Paul for a three-game weekend series that begins at 7:05 p.m. on Friday, June 8, at Midway Stadium. The game will be broadcast on Sioux Falls Sports Radio 1230-AM KWSN and www.kwsn.com.
Notes: The attendance was 1,732...The last time the Pheasants hit back-to-back home runs was June 26, 2011, against the Railcats (Brandon Sing and Francisco Leandro)...Al Quintana was ejected from the game in the middle of the second inning. He was replaced by Rob Lind in the lineup...Mark Michael struck out six batters, a season high. He has struck out four or more in all four appearances.
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