Wingnuts beat AirHogs to begin four-game road trip
Matt Padgett’s two-run single in the sixth inning drove in the go-ahead run and sent the Wingnuts on their way to a 5-2 win over the AirHogs on Wednesday night in Grand Prairie, Texas, in the first game of a four-day road trip.
Wichita trailed 2-1 after five innings. David Espinosa opened the sixth with a walk and T.J. Mittelstaedt followed with a ground-rule double. After Joash Brodin popped out, Padgett came through with a base hit to send both runners home. Padgett stole second and scored on Harrison Kain’s double to make it 4-2. The Wingnuts added a run in the seventh when Brodin drew a bases-loaded walk.
Wingnuts starter Omar Bencomo (5-0) gave up single runs in the second and third innings, but limited the AirHogs to six baserunners in six innings. He struck out nine and was credited with the win. Daniel Bennett relieved Al Yevoli with two outs and the bases loaded in the eighth inning and got Willie Cabrera to fly out. Dakota Watts pitched a scoreless ninth.
Wichita | G. Prairie | ||||||||
ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
Ray cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | McGruder 2b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Espinosa 1b | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Richardson rf | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mittelstdt 3b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Myrow dh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brodin lf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Cabrera lf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Padgett dh | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Diaz 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nester c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chavez c | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Kain rf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Hoop.-Has. 3b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hernandez 2b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Elder cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vargas ss | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Estrada ss | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Totals | 35 | 5 | 9 | 5 | Totals | 31 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Wichita | 001 | 003 | 100 | — | 5 |
Grand Prairie | 011 | 000 | 000 | — | 2 |
E— Nencomo, Diaz. LOB— Wichita 9, Grand Prairie 7. 2B— Mittelstaedt, Kain, Hoopii-Haslman. SB — Padgett, Vargas, Richardson. CS — Kain 2, McGruder 2.
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Bencomo W,5-0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
Reed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Yevoli | 2/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Bennett | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Watts S,2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Grand Prairie | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Bozeman L,2-5 | 6 2/3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
Rucker | 1 1/3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Dando | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
HBP — by Bencomo (Richardson). WP — Bencomo, Yevoli, Bozeman 2.
T— 2:55. A— 570.
This story was originally published July 15, 2015 at 10:17 PM with the headline "Wingnuts beat AirHogs to begin four-game road trip."