Spinners Roll Lucky Sevens

FISHKILL, NY - Another night of extra innings for the Lowell Spinners brought another win, as the team scored three runs in the top of the 11^th inning, highlighted by a Jagger Rusconi double, to take their seventh straight victory, 5-2, over the Hudson Valley Renegades on Thursday night.  

Lowell (7-0) wasted no time jumping out in front, as the first four batters of the game, Chris Madera, Jagger Rusconi, Tyler Hill and Roldani Baldwin singled, plating one run and loading the bases. After a strikeout, a walk to Isaias Lucena forced in another run and loaded the bases again to continue the threat, however, Yoan Aybar grounded into a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.

Hudson Valley (3-4) cut the deficit to one in the second inning, as a two-out walk and an ensuring wild pitch served up by Spinner starter Josh Pennington became a run after a single up the middle.

The Renegades staged a two-out rally in the eighth inning to tie the game off of relievers Danny Zandona and Dioscar Romero. Zandona retired the first two batters of the inning before being lifted after a single. Romero came on and after a stolen base, allowed an infield single that brought in the tying run.

The Spinner offense was quiet until the 11^th inning when Aybar led off with a walk, moved to second on a groundball, to third on a wild pitch and scored on Madera's single up the middle. Rusconi hit the next pitch into the left field gap, scoring Madera and Steven Reveles, who had walked, to put the game out of reach.

Pennington began and ended his outing with 1-2-3 innings, but struggled in between with control, walking three against four strikeouts, but was able to make it through five innings in line for a win. Zandona struck out two in 2.2 innings pitched, while Romero (2-0, 1.35) struck out two in 2.1 innings pitched to pick up his second win of the season. Pat Goetze retired all three batters he faced in the 11^th for his first save.

Madera, Rusconi and Baldwin each had two-hit nights for the Spinners, who after having 10 straight batters between the 5^th through 9^th innings, got the bats going in extra innings for the second night in a row. Reveles, a 2016 undrafted free agent from Nebraska, picked up his first professional hit in his first professional at-bat in the second inning.

Enmanuel DeJesus (1-0, 0.00), who sparkled in his season debut against Williamsport on Sunday, returns to the bump tomorrow in the series finale. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.