Baby Cakes flex muscles to rip Reno
Isaac Galloway hit two of the Baby Cakes' season-high four home runs, powering New Orleans past the Reno Aces, 7-4 on Thursday night.Galloway's two-run shot in the third inning off Arizona Diamondbacks top prospect Anthony Banda gave the Baby Cakes a lead they would not relinquish. Galloway added a solo
Galloway's two-run shot in the third inning off Arizona Diamondbacks top prospect Anthony Banda gave the Baby Cakes a lead they would not relinquish. Galloway added a solo home run in the seventh against Ruby De La Rosa to notch his second career multi-homer game, and first since July 12, 2011.
Back-to-back home runs in the eighth by
Reno struck first against
After Galloway's first home run vaulted the Baby Cakes into the lead,
Reno answered in the bottom of the frame on Jack Reinheimer's run-scoring double, and inched within a run an inning later on a sacrifice fly by Christian Walker. The Aces put the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position against Copeland with one out in the sixth, but
Walker drove in his second run of the game on a seventh-inning double but O'Grady again stranded the tying run in scoring position, and
Copeland (3-3) scattered eight hits in 5 1/3 innings, struck out five and walked three to pick up the victory as the Baby Cakes improved to 7-2 in series openers.
Banda (3-2) surrendered four runs and seven hits in six innings and suffered the loss for the Aces, who have dropped consecutive games after winning six of their previous seven.
The four-game set continues on Friday at 8:35 p.m. Central.