Wingnuts beat Blasters 3-1
The Wingnuts limited Joplin to six hits and beat the Blasters 3-1 on Thursday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in their final home game of the regular season.
Tim Brown started and went seven innings, allowing five hits and no walks. Chad Nading and Frankie Reed each followed with a scoreless inning.
The Wingnuts scored all three runs in the seventh. T.J. Mittelstaedt started the inning with a walk, stole second and third, then scored on a Matt Chavez single. Martin Medina’s double moved Chavez to third, and they both scored on a single by Brennen Salgado.
The Wingnuts play the final four games of the season at Laredo, then begin postseason play Wednesday.
Joplin | ab | r | h | bi | Wichita | ab | r | h | bi |
Glasser 2b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | VnStrtn cf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Valentin 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Stringer 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Huth cf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Clevlen lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gomez dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mittlstt 3b | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Polston ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chavez 1b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Escobar c | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Medina dh | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Krueger rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Salgado rf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Leon 3b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dean c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Arell lf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Vargas ss | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Totals | 33 | 1 | 6 | 1 | Totals | 29 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
Joplin | 001 | 000 | 000 | — | 1 |
Wichita | 000 | 000 | 30x | — | 3 |
E— Mittelsatedt, Vargas. DP— Wichita 2. LOB— Joplin 5, Wichita 6. 2B— Valentin, Escobar, Medina, Dean. SB — Huth, Clevlen, Mittelstaedt 2.
Joplin | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Arias L,2-2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Ramirez | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Johnson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Wichita | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Brown W,9-4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Nading | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reed S,21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
T— 2:27. A— 2,627.
This story was originally published September 1, 2016 at 10:02 PM with the headline "Wingnuts beat Blasters 3-1."