TinCaps Baseball: Reed, Young Homer In Caps Win
LANSING, Mich. – Buddy Reed and G.K. Young both homered in an 11-3 win for the TinCaps on the road against the Lansing Lugnuts (Toronto Blue Jays) at Cooley Law School Stadium on Friday night.
After a scoreless first inning, Fort Wayne (38-23, 64-67) threw a haymaker in the second. The TinCaps scored six runs in the second to knock Lugnuts starter Andy Ravel (L) out of the game.
Reed started the scoring with a two-run homer to right field that scored Young, who had walked. Fort Wayne’s center fielder finished the night with two hits and two walks as well.
Catcher Chandler Seagle (double), Nate Easley (single), and Reinaldo Ilarraza (double) also provided run-scoring hits during the second-inning outburst.
That proved to be more than enough offensive support for TinCaps starter Michel Baez (W), who limited the Lugnuts to two runs over six innings with five strikeouts. Jim McDade (S) picked it up from there for three innings. McDade recorded one strikeout and one walk. It was the first time McDade had walked a batter in 70 innings of work since June 1. For the 24-year-old from Pennsylvania, 56 1/3 of those innings came with Fort Wayne (the remaining with Short-Season Tri-City), establishing a new Midwest League record. The old mark of 45 consecutive innings without a walk had been set by William Castro for Danville in 1973.
Meanwhile, Young, the first baseman who posted three hits and a walk, added to the TinCaps’ lead in the third, making it 7-0 at the time. Gabriel Arias, the 17-year-old shortstop, expanded the lead to 8-0 with a double as he had his second straight two-hit game.
Following a two-run homer from Lansing’s David Jacob in the fourth, Fort Wayne put up three more in the fifth. Right fielder Jack Suwinski drove in a run with a double — one of three hits for him. Arias made it 10-2 with an RBI groundout. Seagle increased the lead to 11-2 with a single.
Lansing (22-39, 59-68) scored a mostly meaningless run in the bottom of the ninth.