Wingnuts remain hot with 6-2 win over AirHogs
The Wingnuts continued their torrid June, beat Texas 6-2 on Tuesday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium for their third straight win.
Wichita improved to 18-7 in June and maintained a 1 1/2-game lead over Laredo in the American Association South Division.
Tim Brown limited the AirHogs to two runs in six innings, and Jesse Pratt finished with three perfect innings for his first professional save.
Martin Medina hit a two-run homer in the fourth to give the Wingnuts a 2-1 lead. Dustin Geiger hit a two-run single in the fifth to make it 4-1, and Zack Cox and Brent Clevlen each drove in a run in the sixth to make it 6-2.
Texas | ab | r | h | bi | Wichita | ab | r | h | bi |
Hur cf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Stringer 2b | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Sanchez ss | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Cox 3b | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Reynolds lf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Clevlen dh | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Rodriguez 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Mittlstt lf | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Bistagne 2b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Medina c | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Gallagher dh | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Geiger 1b | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Byrd 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Prigatano rf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lenahan rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kain | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Valadez c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Vargas ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 34 | 2 | 9 | 2 | Totals | 35 | 6 | 13 | 6 |
Texas | 000 | 101 | 000 | — | 2 |
Wichita | 000 | 222 | 22x | — | 6 |
E— Vargas. DP— Wichita 2. LOB— Texas 5, Wichita 10. 2B— Clevlen, Mittelstaedt, Kain. HR — Reynolds (16), Medina (1). SB — Geiger. CS — Prigatano.
Texas | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Martin L,2-2 | 5 1/3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
Bartley | 2/3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Russo | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Brown W,4-2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Pratt S,1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
WP — Russo.
T— 2:29. A— 2,029.
This story was originally published June 28, 2016 at 10:10 PM with the headline "Wingnuts remain hot with 6-2 win over AirHogs."