Clippers' Bats Come Alive for Third Straight Win

The Columbus Clippers came with a vengeance in game one of a four game series against the Toledo Mud Hens after being swept two weeks ago when the teams met for the first time this year.
The Clippers' offense got going early and never stopped, beating the Mud Hens 11-5.

Chris Tremie's squad got on the board in the first inning after Brandon Barnes kicked off the evening with a double. Lonnie Chisenhall, down on a rehab assignment from Cleveland, scored Barnes with a double of his own to make it 1-0.
Two batters later, Yu Chang laced another double to score Chisenhall for a 2-0 lead. Chang moved up to third base on a Francisco Mejía single and was then scored by an Eric Haase sacrifice fly, making it 3-0 after one inning.
The Clippers struck again in the second when Yandy Díaz singled in a run and Chang lifted a sacrifice fly to extend the lead to 5-0.
Toledo struck against Clippers' starter Sean Brady (1-0), making his Triple-A debut, with a two-run homerun off the bat of Chad Huffman to pull within 5-2 in the fourth inning.
Columbus bounced right back with four runs in the bottom of fourth to give Brady a 9-2 lead. Barnes cranked a two-run bomb to make it 7-2 and Mejia followed that with a bases-loaded sac-fly to make it 8-2. The next batter, Hasse grounded out to score one more and push the Clippers' advantage to 9-2.
Brady tossed a clean fifth and his day would be done after that, having allowed two runs on five hits, with two walks and five strikeouts.
Haase put an exclamation point on his day at the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning. He stroked a no-doubt solo shot that clanked off the brick wall beyond the left field bleachers at Huntington Park to give his team a 10-2 lead.
Toledo made their best comeback bid in the eighth when they scored three runs off reliever Jack Leathersich. The first came in on a wild pitch and two more scored on a Ronny Rodríguez two-out single to pull the Mud Hens within 10-5. Cam Hill replaced Leathersich with two-outs in the eighth and escaped the jam.
Barnes added one run in the eighth with a RBI single, giving him a 5-for-6, 3 RBI day, and the team an 11-5 lead.
Hill continued on for a scoreless ninth to secure the game one win for Columbus.
The teams will play game two tomorrow at Huntington Park with first pitch scheduled for 6:35 p.m.