Wings top 'Pigs with comeback win
Carlos Paulino had two hits and three RBI, sparking a 6-2 Red Wings comeback win over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs Sunday afternoon at Frontier Field.
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Wings right-hander Greg Peavey came into Sunday's game looking for his first win since being promoted from Double-A June 21. After a scoreless first inning, the IronPigs went ahead 2-0 after a one-out walk, followed by a homer by Chris McGuiness. Peavey worked his way out of further trouble by notching a pair of strikeouts.
Peavey settled down and found a groove, keeping Lehigh Valley in check. In the fifth inning, Peavey got a little help from catcher Paulino. After allowing a one-out single to Russ Canzler, Peavey threw strike three to Cord Phelps, and Paulino threw out Canzler stealing on the pitch for the strikeout, throw-out double play to end the inning.
IronPigs start Severino Gonzalez was perfect through four innings, but the Wings finally got to him with two outs in the bottom of the fifth. Danny Ortiz and Eric Farris singled, to put runners on base for Argenis Diaz. Diaz doubled and both Ortiz and Farris scored to tie the game 2-2. Paulino followed that up with a single, and Diaz scored to give the Wings a 3-2 lead. After walking Jorge Polanco, Gonzalez got James Beresford to fly out to center field to end the inning. Gonzalez threw 4 2/3 perfect innings before allowing the hit to Ortiz.
Peavey (1-4) worked six innings and allowed six hits, two earned runs, and three walks while striking out five. Peavey threw 102 pitches, 64 for strikes.
Farris, Diaz and Paulino teamed up again to boost the Wings' lead in the seventh. Farris singled with one out, Diaz followed with a single, and Paulino doubled to bring home both runners to make it 5-2 Red Wings. That brought an end to the day for Gonzalez, with Dalier Hinojosa taking over on the mound.
Gonzalez (1-5) set down the first 14 batters he faced, but ended up with a line of 6 1/3 inning pitched, with seven hits and six runs allowed. He walked one, struck out one, and threw 91 pitches, 61 for strikes.
Michael Tonkin took for Peavey to start the seventh, and Tonkin pitched two perfect innings, striking out one and getting help from a nifty defensive play by Diaz in the seventh.
Logan Darnell worked the ninth inning for the Red Wings, getting three quick outs with a strikeout to end the comeback win.
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NOTES: Class A Ft. Myers left-handed pitcher Mat Batts is the Twins minor league Player of the Week...Batts made one start for the Miracle on Friday at Brevard County, allowing one run on five hits in 7.0 innings pitched with no walks and five strikeouts, earning the win...he has combined to go 7-4, 1.89 ERA (95.0 IP, 20 ER) with 19 walks and 93 strikeouts in 16 starts between Low-A Cedar Rapids and High-A Ft. Myers...the Winston-Salem, North Carolina native was drafted by the Twins in the 17th round of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of North Carolina |
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