Wingnuts Take Series from Cats
Published on June 2, 2011 under American Association (AA)
Wichita Wingnuts News Release
WICHITA, KS- The Wichita Wingnuts beat the Fort Worth Cats 9-7 at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium on Thursday night.
Wichita rallied for five runs, four of which were unearned, in the bottom of the first against Cats' starter Mike Bacsik. Ryan Patterson homered to left-center with one out to give Wichita a 1-0 lead. After Bacsik retired Jorge Cortes on a groundout to first, Juan Richardson reached on an infield single to short that went off the lower body of Cory Morales. On the next play, Morales made a wild throw to first on Jorge Delgado's groundball, putting runners on first and second with two outs. Josh Workman continued the rally with an RBI single to left-center that chased home Richardson.
Now leading 2-0, Mike Conroy crushed a triple to the right-center field fence that increased the Wingnuts' lead to four runs. Morales then committed his second error of the inning with Jeff Stevens at the plate, bouncing his throw to first base and allowing Conroy to score Wichita's fifth run.
Wichita scored two more runs in the second against reliever Griffin Bailey. Patterson doubled down the left field line and came around on a double into the right field corner by Cortes. Richardson lined a single to right-center that brought in Cortes and gave the Wingnuts a 7-0 lead.
Fort Worth chipped away in the third, scoring two unearned runs against Wingnuts' starter Ryan Hinson. Marcos Rodriguez' sacrifice fly put the Cats on the board. John Allen followed with a two-out, RBI double that made it 7-2.
Cory Morales lined a two-out, two-run double into the left field corner in the top of the fourth to bring the Cats within three, but Delgado's two-out single down the right field line in the bottom of the inning re-extended Wichita's lead.
Fort Worth scratched out runs in the sixth and seventh to pull within two heading into the top of the eighth. With runners on second and third and two out, Rodriguez singled hard to center field. After Brian Fryer scored the Cats' seventh run, Ryan Patterson's throw from center beat Cory Morales to the plate where Jeff Stevens dropped the tag to end the inning and keep the Wingnuts in front by one.
Patterson led off the bottom of the eighth with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Richardson to give Wichita an insurance run.
Josh Dew worked a perfect top of the ninth to earn his seventh save.
Hinson earned the win, allowing five runs, three earned, in six innings of work. Hinson struck out five and walked two while allowing six base hits.
Bacsik took the loss, allowing five runs, one earned, in one inning.
The Wingnuts open a three-game series against the Kansas City T-Bones on Friday night at 6:05 p.m. Nick Singleton takes the mound against left-hander Devin Anderson. For tickets, call the Wingnuts' office at (316) 264-NUTS or visit the Wingnuts' official website at www.wichitawingnuts.com.
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