Bats Attack Cats in 9-3 Win

West Sacramento, Calif. - The Oklahoma City Dodgers had one of their best performances at the plate in a road game this season, racking up nine runs and 13 hits in a 9-3 victory over the Sacramento River Cats Wednesday night at Raley Field.
The nine-run output was the second-highest run total in any road game for the Dodgers this season, but their highest in a nine-inning contest. The team scored in six different innings, including five straight between the third and eighth innings. Entering Wednesday, the Dodgers had scored in just five of their previous 38 innings on the road.
The Dodgers (34-21) started the scoring with two runs in the second inning. Edwin Ríos led off the frame with a solo blast past the bullpens and halfway up the grass seating in right field for his first homer of the season. Later in the inning, Dodgers pitcher Manny Bañuelos laid down a perfect squeeze bunt along the first base line to score Kyle Garlick and make it 2-0.
Bañuelos' counterpart Tyler Beede got him back in the bottom of the inning, knocking a two-out RBI single to pull the River Cats back within one.
With a runner on in the top of the fourth inning, Garlick pummeled a two-run homer to the roof of the clubhouses past the left-center field fence, putting the Dodgers ahead, 4-1. The home run was estimated to have traveled 470 feet for Garlick's team-leading eighth tater with OKC.
Another run scored on an error in the fifth, and Alex Verdugo laced a two-run double to right-center field in the sixth to grow the lead to 7-1. Verdugo led the Dodgers with three hits Wednesday and was one of three players with multi-hit games. 
Sacramento (29-31) scored once in the sixth to stop the stretch of five straight runs by the Dodgers, but OKC answered back in the seventh with a RBI single by Michael Ahmed.
The River Cats scored their final run in the seventh, and Henry Ramos tallied the Dodgers' final run in the eighth with a pinch-hit RBI single.
Bañuelos (6-3) earned his team-leading sixth win with 5.2 solid innings. He struck a season-high 10 batters for his first double-digit strikeout game since Aug. 6, 2010 when he was with the High-A Tampa Yankees. The lefty allowed two runs and six hits with three walks, although two were intentional walks.
Three OKC relievers combined for five more strikeouts, giving the pitching staff 15 for the game and 29 through the first two games of the series.
Beede (3-6) was knocked around for seven runs (six earned) and eight hits over 5.1 innings. He allowed six walks to go along with four strikeouts.
The Dodgers and River Cats meet for the rubber match in their three-game series at 9:05 p.m. Central time Thursday. Live coverage begins 15 minutes before first pitch on AM 1340 "The Game," 1340thegame.com, or through the free iHeartRadio mobile app.