Game Recaps 5/29

On next Tuesday's Indians Minor League Magazine show on STO, Indians Amateur Scouting Director Brad Grant will be in studio to discuss the MLB Draft. Also, infielder Josh Barfield will be featured, and a then and now with pitcher Rafael Perez will be shown.

K-Tribe Sweeps Doubleheader, Wins A Season High Five Games in a Row

The K-Tribe swept a doubleheader from Frederick, bringing their win streak to a season high five games in a row. Kinston won game one 5-0 and took game two 3-2.

A complete game shutout victory by Steven Wright propelled the Kinston Indians to a 5-0 victory in game one at Historic Grainger Stadium. Wright pitched all seven innings of the opener striking out seven, allowing two hits and four base runners. It was the K-Tribe pitching staff’s third shutout of the year.

The Indians scored in the first inning for the third straight day, plating a run on an RBI single by Chris De La Cruz. The Tribe added a run in the third with an RBI force-out from Nick Weglarz. As Wright kept dealing, Kinston kept scoring, blowing it open in the sixth sending nine men to the plate and scoring three. A two-run double by Alex Castillo and a run-scoring double put things out of reach in the penultimate frame. Wright finished things up in the seventh for his second win against three losses, lowering his staff-leading ERA to 2.38, fifth in the Carolina League.

Jason Denham’s three-run homer in the fourth inning gave the Indians enough of a cushion to hold off Frederick again. Despite Josh Tomlin giving up two runs in four innings, Neil Wagner and Luis Perdomo combined to hold the Keys scoreless over the last three innings. Perdomo pitched a scoreless ninth for his Carolina League-leading 12th save.

The Indians won their season-high fifth straight game in the nightcap, all coming at home. Frederick was swept in their second straight series, after not being swept up to this point last week. They have lost seven straight over that stretch.

The K-Tribe will play the next 14 of their 17 games away from home. Kinston’s seven game road trip starts Friday night in Potomac. Hector Rondon takes the mound for Kinston in the 7:05 start.

CAPTAINS LOSE IN 11 INNINGS

(Eastlake, OH) – The Lakewood BlueClaws scored four runs in the top of the eleventh inning off Captains reliever Dallas Cawiezell, capped of by a three run home run by Michael Taylor as the BlueClaws defeated the Lake County Captains 8-6 in eleven innings on Thursday. The Captains battled back to score two runs of their own in the bottom of the inning, but fell short.

The BlueClaws took the lead in the third inning when Derrick Mitchell hit a three run home run off Captains starter Joey Mahalic to give the Blueclaws a 3-0 lead. The Captains got on the board in the bottom of the third inning off Claws starter Drew Naylor when Matt Brown singled home Mark Thompson to cut the lead to 3-1. The Captains tied it in the bottom of the fourth inning when Doug Pickens and Matt Willard singled and they both scored when Thompson doubled to right field to make it 3-3.

The Captains took the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning when Doug Pickens walked and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Willard and he scored on a double by Thompson, his fourth hit of the day. The BlueClaws forced extra innings scoring a run in the top of the ninth inning off Captains closer Vinnie Pestano on and RBI groundout by Mitchell. This was only Pestano’s second blown save in fourteen tries.

Mahalic went seven innings and gave up three runs on seven hits, walking two and stricking out five and did not get a decision. Gary Campfield relieved Mahalic in the eighth inning and pitched a scoreless inning. Pestano pitched the ninth inning and Dallas Cawiezell the final two innings and picked up the loss to drop to 2-2. Zach Simon got the win to up his mark to 5-1.

Game three of the four game series is Friday at 7:05 PM as the Captains send LHP Kelvin De La Cruz (4-2, 1.57) to the mound against the BlueClaws LHP Jacob Diekman (1-3, 5.01) The game can also be heard on AM 1330 WELW, WELW.COM or CAPTAINSBASEBALL.COM.

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