It has not been a good start to the week for the TinCaps offense. They have just seven combined hits in the first two matchups of a six-game series a .
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Pregame: TinCaps (33-37) vs. Dayton (37-32)
The TinCaps are on a roll. After Friday night s 7-3 win over Dayton at Parkview Field, Fort Wayne has won three in a row, five of its last six and 10 of 15, one of its best stretches of the season. The two-week string of good baseball following a season-long seven-game losing streak has propelled the TinCaps from sixth to fourth in the High-A Central East Division standings.
With a win tonight against the Dragons, the TinCaps can win their first series at Parkview Field since the opening week of the season against the West Michigan Whitecaps. A victory would also make it the first time Fort Wayne has won four games in a home series in 2021, and a fourth straight victory would tie a season-high.
TinCaps winning streak ends in odd fashion
It s not often a player who goes 1 for 2 with a double, two walks and three stolen bases could be said to have had a rough night, but that s what happened to TinCaps center-fielder Reinaldo Ilarraza tonight.
Ilarraza was involved in two of the biggest plays of the game and neither of them went Fort Wayne s way in a 4-3 loss to the Dayton Dragons at Parkview Field that snapped a three-game winning streak and sent the TinCaps sliding back into fifth place in the High-A Central East Division.
Ilarraza s first moment in the spotlight came in the top of the seventh. With the game tied at 1, the first pitch of the inning was sent deep to center off the bat of Quin Cotton. Ilarraza seemed to lose the ball in the lights, standing almost still in center, looking at the sky for the ball but unable to locate it before it landed 25 feet behind him on the warning track as Cotton raced to third with a triple. One pitch later, a sacrifice fly gave the D
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