Captains trio blanks Lugnuts
(Eastlake, OH) - Alex Royalty , Luis Araujo and Skylar Arias combined to shut out the Lansing Lugnuts (9-9, 41-46) on Monday night at Classic Park. The Lake County Captains (11-7, 51-36) won a pitcher's duel, 2-0, to avoid a three-game sweep.
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Royalty (5-4) blanked the Lugnuts over six innings and earned the win. The starter held Lansing to three hits, walked one, hit two batters and struck out four.
Royalty also got some defensive help. He ended the first and third innings on line drive double plays. In the first,
Araujo spun a dominant, one-two-three seventh inning in support of Royalty. Arias then notched his third save with two scoreless frames in the eighth and ninth. The lefty allowed just one baserunner, hitting Brodt with a pitch in the ninth, and struck out three.
Lake County scored the game's first run in the fourth on an RBI single by
The Captains have Tuesday off before beginning a six-game Iowa road trip on Wednesday when Lake County starts a three-game series against the Clinton LumberKings. First pitch at
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