The Winnipeg Goldeyes (37-31) swept a doubleheader from the Chicago Dogs at Blue Cross Park Tuesday evening, extending their winning streak to ten games. Winnipeg won the opener 4-1 before taking game two 7-4.<\/p>\n
Chicago (21-48) took an early lead in game one when centre fielder Giovanni DiGiacomo hit a two-out solo home run to right-centre field in the top of the second inning.
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\nWinnipeg replied with two runs in the bottom of the third to take a 2-1 lead. First baseman\u00a0Kevin Garc\u00eda\u00a0scored on a throwing error to tie the game before shortstop\u00a0Ray-Patrick Didder\u00a0came home on a double-play ball off the bat of right fielder\u00a0Roby Enr\u00edquez\u00a0to put the Goldeyes ahead.<\/p>\n
In the fifth, Enr\u00edquez lined a single to left that drove in designated hitter\u00a0Max Murphy\u00a0and Didder, making the score 4-1.
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\nLuke Boyd\u00a0(W, 8-3) went the distance for Winnipeg, allowing one run on six hits. The reigning American Association Pitcher of the Week struck out four and walked two.
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\nBrendan Roberts (L, 1-2) started for the Dogs and exited after 4 1\/3 innings. He gave up four runs\u2014two earned\u2014on five hits while striking out one and issuing one walk.
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\nChicago also struck first in the nightcap, with designated hitter Aaron Altherr hitting a two-out, two-run home run to left field in the top of the first inning to give the Dogs an early 2-0 lead.
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\nThe Goldeyes wasted no time responding. In the bottom of the inning,\u00a0Bramasco\u00a0doubled down the left-field line to drive in Didder and reduce the deficit to 2-1. After left fielder\u00a0Adam Hall\u00a0walked, centre fielder\u00a0Noah Marcelo\u00a0singled through the left side of the infield to bring home Bramasco and tie the ballgame. Second baseman\u00a0Keshawn Lynch\u00a0then gave Winnipeg the lead with a sacrifice fly to centre field that allowed Hall to score from third, making it 3-2.
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\nLynch drove in two more runs in the third when he lined a base hit to left that brought home Hall and Marcelo, extending the Goldeyes\u2019 lead to three runs.
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\nWinnipeg made it 7-2 in the fifth inning. Enr\u00edquez doubled down the right-field line to plate Marcelo before Lynch scored on Murphy\u2019s groundout to third.
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\nChicago replied with two runs in the top of the sixth. DiGiacomo singled up the middle to score right fielder Zack Stokes before first baseman Tyreque Reed came home on left fielder Jacob Maiben\u2019s groundout to third, reducing the Goldeyes\u2019 lead to 7-4.
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\nQuinn Waterhouse\u00a0(W, 2-2), the second Winnipeg reliever of the game, was awarded the win in a scorer\u2019s decision.\u00a0Aidan Newton\u00a0started for the Goldeyes and went three innings, allowing two runs on three hits while striking out two. He was followed out of the bullpen by\u00a0Arij Fransen, Waterhouse,\u00a0Eli Saul, and\u00a0Derrick Cherry\u00a0(S, 13).
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\nThe four-game series continues Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., when left-hander\u00a0Kevin Vaupel\u00a0(2-5, 6.02 ERA) will start for the Goldeyes. The Dogs are expected to send right-hander Dominic Guzm\u00e1n (0-2, 4.38 ERA) to the mound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Goldeyes (37-31) swept a doubleheader from the Chicago Dogs at Blue Cross Park Tuesday evening, extending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-847050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}