Rain, Rain, Go Away: The TinCaps Beat the Whitecaps Today
COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. - On a rainy night in West Michigan, the TinCaps beat the elements and rallied back for a 6-4 win over the Whitecaps. The game lasted 3:31, the 12th TinCaps game this season that lasted past the three and a half hour mark.
COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. - On a rainy night in West Michigan, the TinCaps beat the elements and rallied back for a 6-4 win over the Whitecaps. The game lasted 3:31, the 12th TinCaps game this season that lasted past the three and a half hour mark.
Early on in the game, Fort Wayne (26-37, 59-72) couldn't buy a base runner off of Robbie Welhaff. The righty starter allowed just two TinCaps to reach (one hit, one walk) in six scoreless innings with six strikeouts to boot.
On the other side,
The Whitecaps (25-38, 46-86) scored two runs in the fifth inning to take a 3-0 lead, which only set the stage for a strange seventh inning. The TinCaps took the lead in the seventh, scoring five runs on three hits plus three costly West Michigan errors.
After the Whitecaps cut the deficit in half with a run in the bottom of the seventh inning, the TinCaps regained a two-run lead via a Lopez single that scored
Just to add to the wackiness of the evening, the ninth inning got interesting for the TinCaps when the Whitecaps put runners on first and third with nobody out. Yet,
Next Game
Tuesday, August 27 @ West Michigan (7:05 p.m.)
- TinCaps Probable Starter: RHP Efraín Contreras
- Whitecaps Probable Starter: LHP Robert Klinchock
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