Baseball: Captains Snap Skid, Explode for 10-5 Win in 13 Innings

Nick Bartolone had a career afternoon on Sunday at Fifth Third Ballpark. With two runners on, and no outs, he singled to leftfield, his fourth on the day, scoring Jordan Casas who reach on his fifth hit of the game, giving the Captains a 6-5 lead. Lake County went on to score four more runs in the 13th inning snapping a ten game losing streak with a 10-5 win over West Michigan.


West Michigan took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Hernan Perez reached on a Jesus Aguilar error. Nick Castellanos drove in the runner Perez with a single to right field.

Lake County tied the game up in the third inning with Alex Monsalve's RBI single to center that scored Nick Bartolone.

In the bottom of third, WhiteCap Ryan Hamme doubled to right to start things off. Rob Brantly was hit by a pitch putting a pair of runners on. Castellanos delivered a big two-out double to right field scoring two and giving West Michigan a 3-1 lead.

The Captains got right back to it in the fourth inning. A leadoff walk to Giovanny Urshela got things started. Jordan Casas laid down a great bunt passed the right side of the mound for an infield single. Dwight Childs executed the sacrifice bunt to push the runners over. Bartolone singled up the middle driving in a pair of runs, tying the game up at 3-3.

West Michigan took a 4-3 lead in the sixth inning. The WhiteCaps recorded three straight one out singles from Rob Brantly, Castellanos and James Robbins who drove in the run.

In the eighth inning, Alex Monsalve doubled with one out to get into scoring position for the Captains. Jesus Aguilar singled to leftfield to put runners on first and third. Giovanny Urshela hit a sacrifice fly to right scoring Monsalve to tie the game at 4-4.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Rob Brantly tripled to leadoff. With the infield playing in, Robbins grounded to short, the ball went under the glove of Ronny Rodriguez allowing the unearned run to score giving West Michigan a 5-4 lead.

Lake County's Nick Bartolone walked to lead off the top of the ninth, and moved to second on a wild pitch. Rodriguez bunted Bartolone over to third. LeVon Washington was hit by a pitch to runners on first and third. Carlos Moncrief singled to leftfield scoring Bartolone and tying the game up at 5-5.

Nick Sarianides (4-3) picked up the win working two innings in relief, no runs on one hit and one walk. Pat Cooper (3-4) took the loss, throwing 4.1 innings, allowing five runs on seven hits and two strike outs. Clayton Ehlert with a no-decision pitched three scoreless innings working the ninth, tenth and eleventh innings, allowing just one hit.

Lake County will head into the All-Star break finishing with a first half record of 27-41. The Captains will resume action in Fort Wayne on Friday night at Parkview Field at 7:00PM.