Vasquez shuts out Indians, Hens win series

The Mud Hens secured a 2-0 win over Indianapolis on Thursday to take three-of-four from the current International League West leaders. Toledo starter Anthony Vasquez threw the team's fourth shutout of the season, helping the Hens to gain more ground on their intra-division rivals. 

The Mud Hens secured a 2-0 win over Indianapolis on Thursday to take three-of-four from the current International League West leaders. Toledo starter Anthony Vasquez threw the team's fourth shutout of the season, helping the Hens to gain more ground on their intra-division rivals.
The night belonged to Vasquez. The southpaw cruised through all nine innings, striking out seven and walking none in the process. After allowing four hits through the first three innings, he gave up just one in his final six frames of work. This was his first complete game shutout since his 2012 campaign with the Pacific Coast League's Tacoma Rainiers and the second of his professional career. The dominant outing was a sigh of relief for the veteran as he had been tagged for 21 runs in his first five starts for the Hens since being called up from Double-A Erie in May.
Thursday's game was the second consecutive the Hens jumped out to a lead in the first inning. It began with two outs when Jason Krizan roped a double into the left-center gap. Cleanup hitter Michael Almanzar drew a walk before Efren Navarro drove in his team-leading 34th run in the form of Krizan.
The Hens went quietly in the second and third but got right back to it in the fourth starting with a line-drive single by Omar Infante. Indianapolis starter Drew Hutchinson K'd Matt den Dekker, but Bryan Holaday stepped up and ripped a double down the third-base line that allowed Infante to score all the way from first.
The Hens move to just 4.5 games back of first place in the West with their series win over the Tribe. They will look forward to their three-game weekend road trip to play a Louisville team they took three-of-four from in May. The series runs Friday through Sunday with Friday's first pitch scheduled to be thrown at 7:05 p.m.