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WooSox Return Home, Continue Hot Streak with 10-1 Win

June 15, 2021 - International League (IL)
Worcester Red Sox News Release


WORCESTER, M.A. - The Worcester Red Sox (23-13) continued their torrid offensive stretch with a 10-1 win over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (18-19) at Polar Park. The victory extends the team's win streak to a season-best seven games, the longest active streak in Minor League Baseball.

The WooSox entered the night having scored first in 16 of their 23 wins, and the trend stayed true on Tuesday night thanks to a three-run third. After two quick outs, Johan Mieses cracked a ball toward the right centerfield wall-IronPigs centerfielder Mickey Moniak chased the sinking liner, but it bounced off his glove and rolled on the warning track. By the time Moniak tossed it in, Mieses had chugged to third with his first triple of the season.

The next batter, Jonathan Araúz, drove him home with a single up the middle, and on the first pitch of the next at-bat, Josh Ockimey blasted a homer over the centerfield wall to make it 3-0 Worcester. The long ball marked Ockimey's sixth of the year and his first since June 2, when he homered on consecutive nights at home.

Lehigh Valley pushed a run across a half-inning later when Moniak walked and took second on a wild pitch. After a strikeout, Matt Vierling fisted a ball down the right field line to bring home the IronPigs' lone run.

But after outscoring Syracuse by a total of 21 runs last week, the WooSox offense continued to roll. Marcus Wilson walked to lead off the third, got an extra 90 feet on a balk by Lehigh Valley starter Adonis Media and scored when Cordero roped a double down the right field line. After a groundout, Cordero came home on a Jeter Downs RBI single to extend the lead to 5-1.

Worcester put up two-run innings again in the fifth and seventh. In the fifth, Bryan Mitchell entered to replace Medina, and the WooSox greeted him with a Downs walk and a Connor Wong double. After a groundout, Araúz notched his second run-scoring single to center, plating Downs and Wong. Two frames later, Cordero capped off a three-hit day with a two-run double that scored Ockimey and Wilson. Araúz then grabbed his fourth RBI of the night in the eighth on a sac-fly to make it 10-1.

On the mound, Raynel Espinal delivered his sixth straight win, tossing five innings of one-run ball with seven strikeouts and three walks. In that six-game win streak-a career long-the right-hander has posted an ERA of 2.61. John Schreiber, Marcus Walden and Kevin McCarthy combined for four scoreless innings out of the bullpen to close the victory.

The WooSox continue the six-game series Wednesday at Polar Park against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs at 6:35 p.m. Tickets are available for each game of the homestand at WooSox.com or by calling 508-500-8888. Television coverage is live on NESN+, and radio coverage starts at 6:15 p.m. on 100 FM The Pike and the WooSox Radio Network. Daniel Gossett (4-1, 3.58), who has won five in a row, gets the start for Worcester.


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