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Cubs Lose Marathon Game to Kernels

South Bend loses series opener 8-5 to Cedar Rapids
July 14, 2021

W: Ryan Shreve (3-1, 2.20 ERA) L: Max Bain (2-4, 6.32 ERA) BOX SCORE Tuesday night was a long one. The South Bend Cubs (26-34) fell to the Cedar Rapids Kernels (35-26) on Tuesday night in the longest nine-inning game of the season at four hours and seven minutes. The

W: Ryan Shreve (3-1, 2.20 ERA)

L: Max Bain (2-4, 6.32 ERA)

BOX SCORE

Tuesday night was a long one.

The South Bend Cubs (26-34) fell to the Cedar Rapids Kernels (35-26) on Tuesday night in the longest nine-inning game of the season at four hours and seven minutes.

The first three batters of the game all recorded hits vs. Max Bain, with the third being a three-run homer from Seth Gray. Cedar Rapids wound up batting around in the first inning, stranding the bases loaded but sending nine to the plate and scoring three runs. Tanner Jesson-Dalton got the final out of the innings but left the game in the second with an apparent arm injury.

Manager Michael Ryan was forced into using eight pitchers tonight.

After batting around in the first inning, the Kernels would send eleven batters to the plate in the fourth. The first three batters reached off Bryan King in the inning, loading the bases with no outs. DaShawn Kiersey then drove in a run on a sac-fly and the last batter King faced would be the next hitter in Michael Helman who doubled in another. Eduarniel Nunez replaced King and allowed four of the first five batters he faced to reach base.

In all it was a five-run fourth the Kernels.

Trailing 8-1 halfway through the game South Bend would go on a run.

The Cubs scored two runs in the fifth inning on a sac-fly from Tyler Durna that scored Edmond Americaan, and a fielder's choice from Grayson Byrd that scored Delvin Zinn. Byrd was in a 3-0 count with the bases loaded and just one out, but reliever Tyler Palm worked it back to 3-2 and then got the ground ball.

South Bend added another run in the seventh. Zinn singled to start the inning, stole his fourth base of the night, then scored on a Durna RBI single to left-center. And the Cubs weren't done rallying. Jake Slaughter tripled to start the eighth and scored on a passed ball from catcher Alex Isola.

With the Cubs now trailing just 8-5, they had runners on first and second and the game-tying run at the plate with one out. But Zinn grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to end the threat. That's as close as the Cubs would get.

The win was the eighth straight for the Kernels, and their sixth-straight win over South Bend.

Zinn (3-4, 3 R, 4 SB, BB) and D.J. Artis (1-3, RBI, 2 SB, 2 BB) combined to reach base in their first seven trips up to the plate. Artis joined the team from double-a Tennessee earlier in the day.

Graham Lawson, Burl Carraway and Jose Albertos combined to throw the last 4.1 innings scoreless, while allowing just one base hit.

Next up: Joe Nahas takes the hill for South Bend against Tyler Beck, who was born in South Bend and went to Saint Joseph's High School.