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South Bend Powers Past Bowling Green, 10-4

August 31, 2015 - Midwest League (MWL1)
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Bowling Green, Ky. - South Bend hit two home runs in the first four innings and got out to an eight-run lead that the Hot Rods could not come back from, as Bowling Green fell 10-4 in front of 2,493 fans at Bowling Green Ballpark on Tuesday night.

Bowling Green (29-33, 66-66) dropped to .500 in its overall record since being 7-7 on April 22, while South Bend (32-31, 61-69) clinched the season series against the Hot Rods.

In the top of the second inning, South Bend touched Hot Rods starter Brad Wallace for five runs in the frame. Wallace struck out David Bote to lead off the inning but Mac James could not handle the pitch, allowing Bote to reach safely on the pass ball. Ian Happ and Charcer Burks followed with consecutive singles, with Bote scoring on Burks' knock to make it 1-0 Cubs.

Vimael Machin walked to load the bases, and Rashad Crawford reached on a fielder's choice, when Coty Blanchard threw out Happ at the plate. On the next pitch, Jeffrey Baez hit the ball onto the walkway beyond the left-field wall for the first grand slam hit against the Hot Rods this year, giving South Bend a 5-0 lead.

Following a perfect third inning, Wallace once again ran into trouble in the top of the fourth. Burks reached on an infield single and advanced to second base on a throwing error by Grant Kay. With Machin at the plate, Wallace tried to pick Burks off at second base, but the throw trickled into centerfield, allowing Burks to take third. After a Machin groundout, Crawford hit his fourth home run of the year on the first pitch of his at bat over the right-field wall, extending the Cubs' lead to 7-0. A Gioskar Amaya RBI double scored Baez to make it 8-0, but the inning ended on the same play when Gleyber Torres was gunned down at home on a relay from Bralin Jackson to Alec Sole to James.

Wallace (2-5) worked 5.0 innings and surrendered eight hits and eight runs (two earned), although the two home runs he allowed accounted for six in the Cubs' tally. The former Arkansas State Red Wolf also walked one and struck out three.

Bowling Green's offense dented Cubs' starter Trevor Clifton (7-10) for just three hits over 6.0 innings, scoring just one run when Carter Burgess - who pinch hit for Thomas Milone in the sixth and reached on an infield single - scored on a two-out wild pitch with the bases loaded, making it 8-1. Clifton walked two and punched out three, winning for the fourth time in five starts.

South Bend extended its lead to 10-1 against Hot Rods' reliever Luis Urena after a two-run double by Burks in the top of the seventh inning, but the Hot Rods responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame. James singled off Cubs' reliever Dillon Maples and moved to third on Kay's double to right field. Cade Gotta drove home James on an RBI groundout, making it 10-2, and Burgess doubled home Kay with a line drive into left field, making it 10-3. Bowling Green struck once more in the bottom of the eighth, when Jackson doubled home Hunter Lockwood making for the final score of 10-4.

Against Sam Wilson in the top of the ninth, Kay singled into centerfield with one out, but Wilson induced a Gotta popup and Burgess groundout to clinch the series victory.

Burgess and Kay both knocked two hits for the Hot Rods, and seven of the 10 batters who Bowling Green sent to the plate had at least one hit. Four Cubs recorded multi-hit games, led by a 3-for-5 night from Burks who also scored two runs and had three RBI.

Bowling Green brings the three-game set to a close on Wednesday morning at 10:35 a.m. CDT, sending Henry Centeno (8-7, 3.49) to the mound to oppose Cubs' southpaw Tommy Thorpe (4-6, 3.16).

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