Game 60: BlueClaws (31-28) at Lake County (34-27)
Back at Classic Park…Rubber game of three and the final meeting ever between the BlueClaws and Captains…Lake County to the Midwest League next year…game notes here…audio here (at 12:50)
LWD: RHP Heitor Correa (7-7, 4.07)
LCO: LHP TJ McFarland (8-4, 3.56)
On Correa…He was tagged for seven runs in four innings last time, and is 3-5, 5.25 in the second half…Last win was 7/19 vs Lexington (six starts)
On McFarland…He is 2-1, 7.56 agaist Lakewood and Jim Murphy has hit two home runs off him…He beat Lakewood with five innings, one ER on Monday.
10:53: It is 61 degrees. How nice is that?
12:50: Overcast, tarp was on the field when we got the park at 10:15, but we should be good to go.
1:16: First BlueClaws RBI for Brian Gump, an RBI single to left-center…1-0.
1:25: Correa fans the side mixing in a hit and a walk…three strikeouts matches his total for his previous three starts.
1:41: Tie game…double/single/DP ties it up…1-1 to the 3rd.
1:49: d’Arnaud single and Murphy just missed one. Great diving stop by the SS Sanchez to save the hit and nearly turn two…1-1 to the home 3rd.
2:24: Greenwell hits a monster HR onto the roof of the batting cage beyond the RF wall…Correa then loads the bases but works through it…he’s walked four through four…2-1 LCO.
2:40: Another run for LCO…RBI single for Greenwell…Ballestas throwing for Lakewood in the pen…Correa gave up eight hits and five walks in five innings, three runs.
2:49: McFarland out after one out and two on in the 6th…Turek in…Mattair up.
2:53: 6-4-3 DP.
3:05: Ballestas allows a run, snapping a 7.1 inning scoreless stretch…4-1 to the 7th.
3:19: Garcia an RBI single makes it 4-2…Lakewood has the bases loaded for Murphy…new pitcher, Langwell, coming in.
3:24: Hard ground ball back to the mound, inning over…4-2 LCO at the stretch.
3:41: Three more off Ballestas…7-2 to the 8th…that would be 17 runs on 18 hits in the last 13 Lake County turns at bat.
4:10: Nothing to see here…final was 8-2…back to Lakewood.
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