Season-High Crowd Watches TinCaps Slug Their Way to Victory
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The TinCaps sent a sell-out crowd of 8,007 fans at Parkview Field home happy on Friday night, slugging two home runs in a 3-2 win over the Lake County Captains (Cleveland Indians affiliate). Fort Wayne has now won four games in a row.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The TinCaps sent a sell-out crowd of 8,007 fans at Parkview Field home happy on Friday night, slugging two home runs in a 3-2 win over the Lake County Captains (Cleveland Indians affiliate). Fort Wayne has now won four games in a row.
The TinCaps (32-34) emphatically took the lead in the bottom of the first on a mammoth two-out, two-run home run from
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The Captains (39-28) scored an unearned run in the third when
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Fort Wayne tacked on an insurance run via a solo home run in the fifth inning by
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The TinCaps bullpen followed Weathers' start with five straight scoreless innings, as
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The Captains made it interesting in the ninth, when Benson smacked his league-leading 17th home run of the season with no one on base and one out. An infield single put a runner on first with one out, but Smith induced a double play ball to end the game.u1:p
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The 'Caps bullpen finished the night with just one run allowed in six innings on four hits. During the current four-game win streak, Fort Wayne's bullpen has allowed two earned runs in 17.0 innings of work (1.06 ERA) with 17 strikeouts and three walks.
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Saturday, June 15 vs. Lake County (7:05 p.m.)u1:p
- TinCaps Probable Starter: RHP Efraín Contrerasu1:p
- Captains Probable Starter: RHP
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