Bostick, Moroff Club Indians Past Tides
INDIANAPOLIS - Christopher Bostick smacked four hits and Max Moroff belted his International League-best ninth home run on his 24th birthday to carry the Indianapolis Indians over the Norfolk Tides, 4-1, on Saturday night at Victory Field. Bostick's four-knock performance was the second of his career, the other coming on
INDIANAPOLIS - Christopher Bostick smacked four hits and
The Indians (15-17) broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth on Moroff's drive over the left-field wall. The Tides (15-20) had pulled even against
Bostick padded Indy's lead in the sixth with a run-scoring double into the left-field corner for his third hit of the night. He launched a two-bagger to the warning track in right-center in the eighth, making him the first Tribe player in 2017 to collect four hits in a single game.
Norfolk's Jayson Aquino (1-3) escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first with a strikeout of
Indianapolis' recent trend of strong pitching returned after a hiccup on the bump in Friday's 11-4 loss to the Tides, snapping what was a six-game winning streak. Hutchison (2-1) hurled six innings of one-run ball, allowing four hits and one walk with four punchouts.
Wood joined Bostick with a pair of doubles, giving the Indians four such occurrences in the last three games. Through the first 29 games of the season, only three Indians players - Bostick,
Indianapolis and Norfolk conclude their four-game series with a Mother's Day matinee Sunday afternoon at Victory Field. The Indians will send right-hander