Captains withstand Trenkle’s monster night, 12-11
LANSING, Mich. – Caeden Trenkle went 4-for-5 with two doubles, two home runs and a diving catch in center field, but the Lansing Lugnuts (5-9, 36-43) fell to the Lake County Captains (5-9, 36-43), 12-11, on Saturday night at Jackson Field. The game featured 34 combined hits, 17 for each
LANSING, Mich. – Caeden Trenkle went 4-for-5 with two doubles, two home runs and a diving catch in center field, but the Lansing Lugnuts (5-9, 36-43) fell to the Lake County Captains (5-9, 36-43), 12-11, on Saturday night at Jackson Field.
The game featured 34 combined hits, 17 for each team, and took three hours and 21 minutes to play, the Lugnuts’ longest nine-inning game of the year.
.@caeden_trenkle's remarkable night:
— Lansing Lugnuts (@LansingLugnuts) July 9, 2023
1⃣ diving catch
2⃣ doubles
2⃣ home runs
4⃣ hits
4⃣ runs scored
4⃣ runs driven in pic.twitter.com/VUb4z0OdOk
A night after the Captains had rallied from 6-1 and 7-2 deficits for 9-8 victory, Lake County built leads of 8-4, 10-5 and 12-6 and then hung on tight as the Lugnuts scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and one in the eighth to creep within a run.
But with the potential game-tying run aboard in the person of fleet Colby Thomas, Magnus Ellerts entered from the Lake County pen and struck out Jack Winkler to end the eighth before whiffing two in a perfect ninth inning to secure the victory.
Center fielder Trenkle did his utmost to lead the Lugnuts’ cause right from the start, blasting a two-run homer to right field in the bottom of the first inning for a quick 2-0 lead.
After the Captains knocked out Lansing starter Joelvis Del Rosario with a six-run second inning, Trenkle drilled an RBI double in the home half and came plateward on a Daniel Susac RBI single to pull the Lugnuts within 6-4.
Trenkle then ignited the Nuts’ four-run seventh with a solo roundtripper to right, his sixth home run of the year, robbed Nate Furman of an extra-base hit with a remarkable highlight-reel catch in the top of the eighth, and then led off the bottom of the eighth with a double and scored on a Thomas RBI single for Lansing’s final run.
All told, the 2022 ninth-rounder from Oklahoma State scored four runs and drove in four runs thanks to his four extra-base hits, lifting his average from .269 to .294 and his slugging percentage from .423 to .514.
In defeat, debuting second baseman Brennan Milone walked, homered and supplied an RBI single; left fielder Thomas went 2-for-5 with an RBI double and an RBI single for the second straight game; and catcher Susac finished 3-for-5, his team-leading 23rd multi-hit game.
The Lugnuts and Captains wrap up their six-game series with a Capital City Market Kids Day on Sunday beginning at 1:05 p.m. with gates opening at 12 noon. It is the final game before a four-day pause for the Major League Baseball All-Star Break. Tickets are available via lansinglugnuts.com or by calling (517) 485-4500 during office hours.
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