RailCats beat Wingnuts 4-2
Colin Willis hit a two-run single off Tim Brown with two outs in the seventh inning, giving Gary-Southshore the lead in its 4-2 win over the Wingnuts on Saturday night in Gary, Ind.
Gary has won the first two games of the three-game series.
The Wingnuts carried a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the seventh. The first two RailCats singled to start the inning, then were bunted to second and third. Wingnuts third baseman Zack Cox fielded a grounder and gunned down a runner at the plate for the second out, but Willis’ single to left field brought home two runs and gave Gary a 3-2 lead.
The RailCats added a run in the eighth off Wichita reliever Mike Devine.
The Wingnuts got a run in the third when Christian Stringer doubled to drive home Leo Vargas, and took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on a home run by T.J. Mittlestaedt.
Wichita | ab | r | h | bi | Gary | ab | r | h | bi |
Stringer 2b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Willis rf | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Cox 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Cheky cf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clevlen dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wilson lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mittlstt lf | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Harris cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Chavez 1b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Martinez dh | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Van Strtn cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Crosby 1b | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Medina c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Del Valle c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Prigtno c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Devarie 3b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Vargas rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Holland 2b | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mederos ss | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 30 | 2 | 6 | 2 | Totals | 30 | 4 | 12 | 4 |
Wichita | 001 | 100 | 000 | — | 2 |
Gary | 001 | 000 | 21x | — | 4 |
DP— Wichita 2, Gary 2. LOB— Wichita 4, Gary 4. 2B— Stringer, Willis. HR — Mittelstaedt (15). SF — Wilson. S — Holland. SB — Mittelstaedt, Harris, Mederos.
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Brown L,8-3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Devine | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Gary | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Rosario W,9-3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
Melendez | 1 1/3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Rodriguez S,2 | 2/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
WP — Rosario.
T— 2:08. A— 4,081.
This story was originally published August 20, 2016 at 8:33 PM with the headline "RailCats beat Wingnuts 4-2."