The Winnipeg Goldeyes (38-31) equalled a franchise record set in 2014 by earning their 11th consecutive victory Wednesday evening, defeating the Chicago Dogs 14-5 at Blue Cross Park.<\/p>\n
After two scoreless innings, Winnipeg\u2019s offence erupted for 10 runs before Chicago (21-49) recorded an out in the bottom of the third.
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\nDesignated hitter\u00a0Ray-Patrick Didder\u00a0opened the scoring with a two-run double to right-centre field, driving in left fielder\u00a0Jiandido Tromp\u00a0and first baseman\u00a0Roby Enr\u00edquez. Shortstop\u00a0Ram\u00f3n Bramasco\u00a0followed with an RBI single to right, extending Winnipeg\u2019s lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n
Centre fielder\u00a0Noah Marcelo\u00a0then lined a two-run single up the middle, scoring Bramasco and second baseman\u00a0Adam Hall\u00a0to make it 5-0. Marcelo came home on catcher\u00a0Rapha\u00ebl Pelletier\u2019s\u00a0single to centre before Tromp doubled down the left-field line, bringing in third baseman\u00a0Keshawn Lynch\u00a0and Pelletier for an 8-0 advantage.
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\nEnr\u00edquez capped the outburst with a two-run single to centre that scored right fielder\u00a0Max Murphy\u00a0and Tromp, giving the Goldeyes a 10-0 lead.
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\nWinnipeg added three more runs in the fourth. Tromp blooped a two-run triple down the right-field line, scoring Lynch and Murphy, before Enr\u00edquez drove in Tromp with a single up the middle to extend the lead to 13-0.
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\nChicago broke through in the top of the fifth when second baseman Nick Roselli lined an RBI single to right that scored designated hitter Tyreque Reed. Left fielder Jacob Maiben followed with a double down the left-field line to drive in his twin brother, third baseman Derek Maiben, making it 13-2.
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\nIn the bottom half of the inning, Marcelo increased Winnipeg\u2019s lead to 14-2 with a single up the middle that brought Bramasco home.
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\nReed led off the seventh with a home run to left to make it 14-3. First baseman Chance Sisco added an RBI single to right in the eighth, scoring shortstop Ethan Wilder and reducing the deficit to 10 runs.
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\nJacob Maiben completed the scoring in the top of the ninth with a single to centre that brought home centre fielder Giovanni DiGiacomo, producing the 14-5 final.
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\nKevin Vaupel\u00a0(W, 3-5) started for the Goldeyes and worked six innings, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out two and walking two.\u00a0Willian Su\u00e1rez,\u00a0Quinn Waterhouse, and\u00a0James Colyer\u00a0each pitched one inning out of the bullpen.
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\nDominic Guzm\u00e1n (L, 0-3) worked two-plus innings for the Dogs, allowing six runs on five hits while striking out one and walking two.
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\nEvery batter in Winnipeg\u2019s lineup recorded at least one hit and scored at least one run. Five Goldeyes had multi-hit games, led by Hall, who went 3-for-5 with a run scored. Tromp finished 2-for-3 with four RBIs, three runs scored, and two walks.
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\nThe four-game series concludes Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Left-hander\u00a0Ryo Kohigashi\u00a0(5-2, 3.23 ERA) will start for Winnipeg, while right-hander Connor Lockwood (1-2, 6.16 ERA) is scheduled to start for Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Goldeyes (38-31) equalled a franchise record set in 2014 by earning their 11th consecutive victory Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-848357","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\/848357","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=848357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}