Three Homers Help Power JetHawks Win
August 7, 2015 - California League (CalL1)
Lancaster JetHawks News Release
LANCASTER, Calif. - The JetHawks used a total of 16 hits, including three home runs, to build an early lead before staving off late trouble for an 8-5 win over the High Desert Mavericks on Friday night at The Hangar.
Chase McDonald, J.D. Davis and Alex Bregman each homered for the JetHawks (56-55). Davis' home run gave him a homer in his fourth straight game, and Bregman's was his first for Lancaster. James Ramsay went 3-for-5 to extend his hitting streak to 14 games.
Akeem Bostick (3-4) carried a quality start through seven innings before the Mavericks (58-50) scored their fourth run of the game on three consecutive hits in the eighth. The right-hander was charged with five runs over seven innings, striking out seven and walking one.
High Desert opened the scoring in the first inning on a Royce Bolinger sacrifice fly, but Lancaster took the lead in the bottom half on a Ronnie Mitchell two-run single. Ramsay added a RBI-single in the second, and after the Mavericks plated a run in the top of the third, McDonald hit his 20th home run of the season in the home half. Davis would add a two-run shot in the fourth off Richelson Pena (9-7), and a Mott Hyde RBI-single in the fifth extended the JetHawks' lead to 7-2.
Pena was charged with the loss after giving up six runs on 11 hits through just four innings of work for High Desert.
Alberto Triunfel homered to lead off the seventh inning for the Mavericks, and Bostick allowed three hits to open the eighth, including a Bolinger RBI-double. Albert Minnis entered in relief and yielded a RBI-single to Ronald Guzman, cutting the JetHawks' lead to two.
But Bregman homered in the bottom of the eighth to extend Lancaster's lead to three runs, and Minnis tossed a scoreless ninth inning to complete the JetHawks' second straight win.
The series continues on Saturday with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m. Lancaster will send Bryan Radziewski (3-4, 3.44) to the mound, and Reed Garrett (4-3, 5.61) will start for High Desert. The first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive a JetHawks-themed backpack, courtesy of Child Care Resource Center.
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