Castro Takes Tortugas To School
DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Carlos Castro homered three times in Florida's 14-2 win over the Daytona Tortugas Wednesday morning at Radiology Associates Field at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in front of 1,864 school children on Education Day. Florida won the final two games of the set to take the series.Daytona started
DAYTONA BEACH, FL -
Daytona started the scoring in the bottom of the first, when
Florida, sporting the top offense in the league, took over from there. The Fire Frogs took the lead they would never surrender in the second frame. Carlos Castro hit his first home run of the day, a two run shot to left field on an 0-2 pitch.
Florida would add another run in the inning before Castro was back at it in the third. He hammered his second two-run, two-strike homer off the batting cage in left field against RHP
Florida scored five runs in the fifth inning, highlighted by Castro's third home run of the day. This time, it took just one pitch for the designated hitter to leave the ballpark. Florida would tack on two more in each of the next two stanzas to cruise to the series win.
Reyes (3-1) suffered his first setback, allowing eight runs and hits in four innings, his shortest outing of the year. LHP
The Tortugas hit the road to begin a three game series in Dunedin beginning on Thursday. Daytona will throw LHP
Notes: Daytona has been outscored 33-5 in their last three morning games at The Jack…Castro hit three home runs in a game for the first time in his career. He had three home runs total this season prior to Wednesday. It was the fourth multi-homer game of his career and first since 6/30/16 with Rome…RHP