Hot Rods, Whitecaps Suspended In Bottom Of The Third

Bowling Green, Ky. - Wednesday's game between Bowling Green and West Michigan was suspended due to lightning after a 45 minute delay in the middle of the third inning, as West Michigan held a 1-0 lead.

The Hot Rods and Whitecaps will resume at 5:05 p.m. CDT on Thursday with play picking up in the bottom of the third inning of the suspended game. That contest will be followed by a condensed seven-inning game after a thirty-minute break between games.

West Michigan scored the only run of the game in the top of the first, when Hyrum Formo was taken deep over the right-field fence by Mike Gerber, giving the Whitecaps a 1-0 lead.

Formo pitched 3.0 innings and scattered four hits, but gave up just the Gerber bomb, while walking none and striking out two.

Bowling Green threatened in the bottom of the second inning, loading the bases against Whitecaps' starter Artie Lewicki with a Justin Williams single, a Nick Ciuffo fielder's choice and a Coty Blanchard walk, but Lewicki struck out Alec Sole and induced a Cristian Toribio groundout to end the Hot Rods' threat.

Lewicki allowed just the two hits through 2.0 innings, walking one and striking out two in his brief outing.

For the resumption, pitchers for both sides are to be determined, but for the second game, Bowling Green will tout righty Brad Wallace (1-2, 4.11) to oppose Whitecaps' right-hander Spencer Turnbull (8-2, 2.81)

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