West Michigan exploded for five runs in the fifth and seven more in the ninth to run away with a 16-6 victory at Parkview Field tonight, setting up an .
TinCaps offense explodes in third victory in four games
DYLAN SINN | The Journal Gazette
The TinCaps are seeing the ball well.
After racking up 22 walks in the first three games of the season, Fort Wayne s bats finally started stringing together hits tonight and the result was an emphatic 10-3 victory that featured a grand slam from Agustin Ruiz, a solo homer from Jawuan Harris and 11 total hits. It was the perfect antidote to the team s first loss of the season, which came Thursday.
The TinCaps have done an outstanding job in the first four games of not offering at pitches outside the zone and making opposing pitchers throw strikes to get outs. The Whitecaps appeared to challenge the Fort Wayne hitters more often in the early innings tonight and the TinCaps took advantage, pushing across nine runs on seven hits in the first two frames. Harris, whose solo shot led off the bottom of the first and knotted the score at 1, said the team has emphasized not expanding the zone early in
TinCaps fall to West Michigan, 6-3, in Espinoza s return
DYLAN SINN | The Journal Gazette
The TinCaps dropped their first game of the season, falling to West Michigan 6-3 at Parkview Field after the Whitecaps pushed across five runs in the seventh inning, helped along by a badly blown call. TinCaps right-hander Anderson Espinoza pitched for the first time since 2016.
How it Happened
The teams entered the seventh locked in a 1-1 pitcher s duel, but that ended during a wild inning that took nearly 58 minutes to play. In the top half of the inning, Sam Keating became the first Fort Wayne pitcher this season to really let the game get away from him. A double, catcher s interference and a walk loaded the bases with nobody out and that s when the proceedings got weird.
TinCaps beat West Michigan, 4-2, improve to 2-0
DYLAN SINN | The Journal Gazette
Luis Almanzar ripped a two-run single to center in the sixth and the TinCaps pitching dominated for a second straight night as Fort Wayne won 4-2 in the second of a six-game series against West Michigan.
How it Happened
After a three-run homer from Justin Lopez and a Kelvin Melean three-run triple in Tuesday s opener, Fort Wayne 0 for its first 6 with runners in scoring position tonight, preventing the hosts from taking advantage of some early opportunities. Twice in the first five innings the TinCaps put the first two runners on base, but they were only able to get one run combined out of those opportunities and that came when Melean grounded into a double play in the third. In the fifth, Jawuan Harris struck out with runners on second and third and one out and Melean grounded sharply back to the pitcher to end the threat.