Jon Link’s complete game leads Wingnuts to win
Jon Link pitched a complete game, leading the Wingnuts to a 6-1 win over Gary-SouthShore on Friday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
Link, one the team’s best pitchers for most of the past three seasons, struggled in his first two starts this spring. He picked up his first win on Sunday at Fargo, and followed that up Friday with his best performance so far.
With the help of a double play Link retired 13 consecutive batters before allowing back-to-back doubles to open the seventh inning. He ended that inning without further damage, and held the RailCats scoreless the rest of the way.
Brent Dean put the Wingnuts ahead 2-0 in the second with a two-run single, the Wichita added single runs in the third and fourth for a 4-0 lead. After Gary made it 4-1 in the seventh, the Wingnuts tacked on two more runs in the bottom of the inning. Leo Vargas led off with a double; Brent Clevlen and Dustin Geiger drove in the runs.
The three-game series continues Saturday night.
Gary | ab | r | h | bi | Wichita | ab | r | h | bi |
Newell lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Stringer 2b | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Fuake rf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cox dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metzger dh | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Clevlen lf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Crosby 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Mittelstaedt 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sermo 3b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Geiger 1b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Pugh cf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Prigatano rf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Falsetti c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Kain cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Santiesteban ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dean c | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Devarie 2b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Vargas ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Mederos ss | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Totals | Totals |
Gary | 000 | 000 | 100 | — | 1 |
Wichita | 021 | 100 | 20x | — | 6 |
E— Sermo. DP— Gary 1, Wichita 2. LOB— Gary 6, Wichita 6. 2B— Metzger, Crosby, Pugh, Prigatano, Vargas. SB — Mittelstaedt, Prigatano, Dean 2.
Gary | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
McGee L,0-4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Gunn | 2 1/3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Kovalik | 1 2/3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Link W,2-2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
T— 2:21. A— 4,526.
This story was originally published June 3, 2016 at 9:38 PM with the headline "Jon Link’s complete game leads Wingnuts to win."