Wingnuts beat AirHogs 7-6 in 12 innings
Brent Clevlen’s single drove in Christian Stringer with the winning run in the 12th inning as the Wingnuts beat the Texas AirHogs 7-6 on Thursday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
Stringer led off the 12th with a double off David Russo, the AirHogs fifth pitcher of the night. After Zack Cox walked, Clevlen hit single to left and Stringer sprinted home.
The Wingnuts went 19-8 in June.
Wingnuts starting pitcher Jon Link gave up two home runs and four runs in the fourth inning. It was his only trouble. He retired the final 13 batters he faced and left after eight innings with a 6-4 lead.
The Wingnuts scored four in the bottom of the fourth — two of the runs unearned — to immediately make up for Link’s misstep. Wichita took a 6-4 lead on T.J. Mittelstaedt’s bases-loaded single with two outs in the seventh inning.
The AirHogs opened the ninth with four straight singles off Wichita closer Frankie Reed, scoring two runs to make it 6-6.
Wichita opens a three-game series at Joplin on Friday night.
Texas | ab | r | h | bi | Wichita | ab | r | h | bi |
Hur cf | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Stringer 2b | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Sanchez ss | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Cox 3b | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Reynolds lf | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Clevlen dh | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Rodriguez 1b | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Mittlstt lf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Bistagne 2b | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Medina c | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Lenahan rf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Chavez 1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Byrd 3b | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Prigatano rf | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Gallagher dh | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Kain cf | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Valdez c | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Vargas ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Totals | 47 | 6 | 11 | 6 | Totals | 40 | 7 | 12 | 5 |
Texas | 000 | 400 | 002 | 000 | — | 6 |
Wichita | 000 | 400 | 200 | 001 | — | 7 |
no outs when winning run scored.
E— Reynolds. DP— Texas 2. LOB— Texas 7, Wichita 8. 2B— Rodriguez, Stringer. HR — Reynolds (17), Lenahan (2). SF — Vargas. SB — Prigatano.
Texas | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Hebner | 6 2/3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Ihrig | 1 1/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Oaks | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Madrid | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Russo L,1-3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Link | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
Reed | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Nading | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Johnson W,2-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
HBP — by Hebner (Cox), by Link (Lenahan). WP — Hebner 3.
T— 3:32. A— 2,128.
This story was originally published June 30, 2016 at 10:52 PM with the headline "Wingnuts beat AirHogs 7-6 in 12 innings."