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Captains Welcome Lugnuts for Second Home Series of 2024 Season

Lake County and Lansing are set to play the first six games of their 18-game regular-season series this week.
By Tyler Danburg
April 16, 2024

EASTLAKE, OH – The Lake County Captains (4-4) will host the Lansing Lugnuts (3-6), the High-A Affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, this Tuesday through Sunday at Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake. The Captains are currently tied for third in the Midwest League East standings with Fort Wayne, and are

EASTLAKE, OH – The Lake County Captains (4-4) will host the Lansing Lugnuts (3-6), the High-A Affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, this Tuesday through Sunday at Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake.

The Captains are currently tied for third in the Midwest League East standings with Fort Wayne, and are 1.5 games behind first-place Great Lakes. The Lugnuts are tied with West Michigan for fifth in the Midwest League East, and are three games out of first place.

Last Series in Review

  • Lake County went 2-3 against the Fort Wayne TinCaps from April 9-14. The games originally scheduled for April 10 and April 11 were rained out, with the April 10 game being made up as part of a doubleheader on April 13.
  • The Captains won the first two games of the series 7-2 and 7-6, before falling in the final three games in tight fashion by just five combined runs.
  • In the first game of the series, Lake County hit 4 home runs, its most in a game since August 14, 2022, when they hit 5 home runs versus Fort Wayne. Returning Captains Jorge Burgos and Tyreese Turner hit their first home runs of the season, while Jonah Advincula and Alex Mooney (No. 20 Cleveland prospect according to MLB Pipeline) hit their first professional long balls.
  • Last weekend marked the first time Lake County scored 7+ runs in three games of a series since July 18-23, 2023 at Fort Wayne.

Five Names to Know – Lake County

  • RHP Austin Peterson leads the Midwest League with 17 strikeouts. He is 1-1 with a 2.70 ERA through two starts, hammering the zone with 71% of his pitches going for strikes.
  • LHP Parker Messick (Cleveland’s No. 21 prospect according to MLB Pipeline) ranks second in the Midwest League with 15 punchouts, and ranks fourth in the league with a 0.93 ERA. Messick has thrown 68.4% of his pitches for strikes, and most recently allowed one run in 4.2 innings of work on April 13 at Fort Wayne.
  • INF Alex Mooney hit safely in all four games he played against Fort Wayne, batting .316 (5-for-14) with 2 home runs and 5 RBI against the TinCaps. Mooney’s two long balls in this series mark the first two home runs of his professional career.
  • C Cooper Ingle is batting .389 (7-for-18) with 3 doubles and 6 RBI in five games played this season. Ingle sports an .833 batting average and 6 RBI with runners in scoring position, the sixth-most in the Midwest League. He is a perfect 3-for-3 with RISP when there are two outs.
  • OF Jorge Burgos is batting .278 (5-for-18) with 1 home run, 1 double and 5 RBI in five games. A 99-game veteran with Lake County, 25 of Burgos’ 82 career High-A hits (30.5%) have gone for extra bases.

Five Names to Know – Lansing

  • 1B Will Simpson (No. 29 Oakland prospect according to MLB Pipeline) ranks fourth in the Midwest League with 9 RBI. He leads the Midwest League with 11 walks and paces qualified Lansing hitters with a .296 batting average (8-for-27).
  • OF Cameron Masterman has clubbed four doubles, which are tied for the second-most in the Midwest League.
  • RHP Mitch Myers has made two appearances (one start), posting a 2.70 ERA with a team-high 11 strikeouts across 6.2 innings of work. After starting 21 of 23 games for the Lugnuts in 2023, he threw 3 shutout innings of relief in his 2024 debut on April 5 at Dayton.
  • OF Henry Bolte (No. 11 Oakland prospect) is batting .194 (6-for-31) with 1 home run and 6 RBI in eight games played this season. At Single-A Stockton in 2023, Bolte belted 14 home runs and knocked in 68 runs.
  • LHP James González has not surrendered a run in a team-high seven innings of work. In his season debut on April 5 at Dayton, he got the start and the victory with 5 shutout innings and 6 strikeouts.

Series Schedule (all games will be broadcast on the Bally Live app and MiLB.TV)

  • Tuesday, April 16: 6:35 p.m.
  • Wednesday, April 17: 12:05 p.m.
  • Thursday, April 18: 6:35 p.m.
  • Friday, April 19: 6:35 p.m.
  • Saturday, April 20: 6:35 p.m.
  • Sunday, April 21: 1:00 p.m.

First pitch for the opening game of this week’s scheduled six-game series between the Captains and Lugnuts is scheduled for Tuesday night at 6:35 p.m. The Captains will be hosting their inaugural Donkey Derby, and will play as their Copa de la Diversión alternate identity, Los Picantes de Lake County, for the first time this season. The game will be broadcast on both the Bally Live app and MiLB.TV, with social media coverage courtesy of @LCCaptains on both X and Instagram.