Ninth-inning rally leads to Wingnuts win
Two-out hits in the ninth inning from T.J. Mittelstaedt and Alberto Gonzalez propelled the Wingnuts past the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks 5-4 on Wednesday night in North Dakota.
Wichita’s David Espinosa walked with one out in a ninth-inning tie game, then John Nester struck out. Mittelstaedt singled to advance Espinosa to third base, then Gonzalez drove him in as the lead run with a single.
That helped the Wingnuts shake off the furstration of watching a 4-1 lead through four innings fade away.
Fargo climbed back into the game with two runs in the fifth inning, highlighted by a triple and double, followed by an error by Wingnuts first baseman Dustin Geiger that allowed the second run to score.
Wingnuts starter Anthony Capra gave up four runs over 5 1/3 innings. Daniel Carela, the second reliever out of the bullpen, got the victory with one inning of scoreless relief, and closer Matt Nevarez got his fourth save despite two ninth-inning walks.
Espinosa was 2 for 4 with two RBIs.
The Wingnuts finish the series at Fargo on Thursday night before traveling to Lincoln for three games beginning Friday.
Wichita | Fargo | ||||||||
ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
Ray cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Mozingo lf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Hrndz 2b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Salerno 2b | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Espnsa rf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Muren cf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Nester c | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Gartrll 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Mttlstdt 3b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Dngn rf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gnzlz ss | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Antonio dh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dean lf | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Staley c | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Geiger 1b | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Pnprse ss | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Oldham dh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Ptrson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Valerio ph | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 37 | 5 | 12 | 4 | Totals | 31 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
Wichita | 101 | 200 | 001 | — | 5 12 1 |
Fargo | 001 | 021 | 000 | — | 4 7 1 |
E — Geiger, Noteware. DP – Wichita 1. LOB – Wichita 11, Fargo 7. 2B – Hernandez, Geiger, Oldham, Penprase. 3B – Mozingo. SB – Dean, Geiger. S – Hernandez, Mozingo.
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Capra | 5 1/3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Bennett | 1 2/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Carela W,1-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Nevarez S,4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Fargo | ||||||
Kirk | 5 2/3 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Blough | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Noteware | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Kelley | 1 1/3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
HBP – Staley by Bennett. T – 3:21. A – 2,760.
This story was originally published June 3, 2015 at 10:42 PM with the headline "Ninth-inning rally leads to Wingnuts win."