Wingnuts top Lincoln 5-4
Brennen Salgado’s fifth-inning home run put the Wingnuts ahead and they hung on to beat host Lincoln 5-4 in an American Association baseball game Thursday delayed at the star by almost 2 1/2 hours.
Salgado’s two-run homer was his third hit of the night and his first professional home run.
Tim Brown got the Wichita victory, giving up three earned runs over six innings.
Wichita | ab | r | h | bi | Lincoln | ab | r | h | bi |
Stringer 2b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Kuzdale cf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Cox 3b | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Alen 3b | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Mttlstdt rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Flores pr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chavez 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Jacobs lf | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Medina c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Smith dh | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Kain cf | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | Leveret 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Salgado dh | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Smith rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Dean lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Moreira ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Vargas ss | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Urps 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Wiggins | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 37 | 5 | 10 | 5 | Totals | 37 | 4 | 12 | 2 |
Wichita | 010 | 220 | 000 | — | 5 10 4 |
Lincoln | 111 | 100 | 000 | — | 4 12 2 |
E— Chavez 2, Vargas 2, Alen, Johnson. LOB -- Wichita 8, Lincoln 8. 2B -- Stringer, Salgado, Kuzdale. HR -- Salgado (1).
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Brown W,6-2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Nading | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Harvey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Lincoln | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Johnson | 3.2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Shepherd L,3-7 | 1.1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
McKenzie | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shackleford | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Martis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Orosey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
HBP — Havez by Brown, Kuzdale by Johnson.
T— 2:37. A— 3,076.
This story was originally published August 5, 2016 at 1:02 AM with the headline "Wingnuts top Lincoln 5-4."