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Pregame: TinCaps (23-28) vs. Great Lakes (28-24)
DYLAN SINN | The Journal Gazette
It has been a difficult couple of nights for the TinCaps, who have let leads get away in the late innings in back-to-back losses. The offense woke up in Friday s matchup, exploding for seven runs combined in the fifth and sixth innings, but some shoddy defense from the TinCaps opened the door for the Loons and they roared back to win 10-9. Fort Wayne committed four errors in the game.
The TinCaps will try to bounce back from that back-breaking defeat with their manager back in the dugout. Anthony Contreras was ejected in the fifth inning Friday for arguing with the base umpire following a check-swing call that went against Fort Wayne and led to a three-run homer later in the at-bat. Contreras was as angry as I ve ever seen him and hitting coach Jonathan Mathews managed the rest of the game. Mathews said afterward he thought the ejection was well-timed to wake up the TinCaps. It seemed to do that, wh