Bats stay hot as Baby Cakes rout Omaha

The New Orleans Baby Cakes piled up season highs with 13 runs on 18 hits on Saturday night, including a seven-run fifth inning, in a 13-2 rout of the Omaha Storm Chasers.
After recording their highest-scoring frame of the year with six runs in the sixth inning of Friday's victory, the Baby Cakes one-upped themselves with the seven-run fifth on Saturday to build a 10-0 cushion.
JT Riddle finished a home run short of hitting for the cycle, and opened the big rally with a double. Tomas Telis followed with an RBI single, and with two outs, Jon Rodriguez delivered a run-scoring double. Magneuris Sierra, who collected his first RBI of the season earlier in the game, roped a two-run single up the middle, and Eric Campbell capped the outburst with a three-run homer which cleared Werner Park's left-field pavilion.
Telis led the attack with four hits, while Campbell and Rodriguez joined Riddle in racking up three hits apiece. Campbell notched the sixth multi-hit effort in his last 10 games and extended his hitting streak to eight games, the longest of the year for New Orleans. He is batting .380 over his last 15 games.
Overshadowed by the bats coming alive was another sterling performance by a Baby Cakes starting pitcher. Ben Meyer turned in the team's sixth consecutive quality start, all of which have seen the starter pitch at least seven innings, and held Omaha out of the hit column until Frank Schwindel was credited with a one-out double in the fifth after Austin Dean lost the ball in the lights.
Meyer (2-2) gave up one run and two hits and struck out five without issuing a walk to drop his ERA to 2.10.
Conversely, Omaha starter Andres Machado (0-4) was hammered for 10 runs and 14 hits - nine earned - in five innings in taking the loss.
The Baby Cakes look for their sixth win in the last seven games and a return to the .500 mark in the third game of the series on Sunday at 2:05 p.m.