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Toledo Drops Game Two to Durham

May 25, 2016 - International League (IL1)
Toledo Mud Hens News Release


A picture perfect day for baseball at Fifth Third Field featured a rehab start for Detroit's Shane Greene, but the story of the game was an inability to come up with clutch hits, as Durham defeated Toledo, 5-3, Wednesday afternoon.

The story of the game was offensive inaction for the Mud Hens (19-25), as they stranded 11 and went 2-13 with runners in scoring position. Toledo managed to get runners to first and third with nobody out and second and third with nobody out in the third and fifth innings but failed to score each time. On the flip side, Durham only left six on base and scored four of their five runs with two outs.

The Mud Hens made it 1-0 in the bottom of the first inning thanks to some heads up running courtesy of Dixon Machado, who came around to score after Casey McGehee came through with a clutch two-out RBI single.

Shane Greene was capped at 61 pitches and was relieved of his rehab duty after 3.1 innings of work, but Greene still managed to strike out seven while scattering four hits and not allowing a run. Lloyd McClendon summoned Drew VerHagen out of the Hen pen, but the second pitch VerHagen delivered was blasted to the seats in right field for a solo shot by Dayron Varona tying the game, 1-1.

Drake Britton, who came on to pitch the fifth, allowed a two-out double off the bat of Nick Franklin, which plated Jaff Decker, to make it 2-1 Durham. Three pitches later, Richie Shaffer laced a line-drive home run to left field completing the three-run fifth for the Bulls and making it a 4-1 game.

Chad Huffman's hitting stayed as hot as the weather was Wednesday morning, as his third hit of the game (four hits total) was a 2-RBI double off the left field wall, which plated the previously walked Machado and Wynton Bernard to make it a 4-3 game in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Durham's Jaff Decker dished up a two-out RBI double off of Bruce Rondon in the top of the ninth to tack on an insurance run for the Bulls and extending their lead to 5-3, which is how the game ended.

Also coming out of the Mud Hens' bullpen was Preston Guilmet who pitched a scoreless sixth, Logan Kensing who pitched a scoreless seventh, and Bobby Parnell also saw action, pitching a perfect eighth.

Earning his second win of the season for Durham was Justin Marks who went 5.1 innings striking out three, walking two, allowing one run and seven hits, and getting his first save of the season for the Bulls was Dylan Floro.

Toledo is back at it for the series finale against Durham tomorrow morning, and the first pitch is slated for 10:35 a.m.

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