Irvin Nunez drove in six runs in the 24-8 win.<\/p>\n
PHOTO PROVIDED<\/p>\n
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels set multiple franchise records in their 24-8 win over the Daytona Tortugas Thursday night at Jackie Robinson Ballpark.<\/p>\n
The Mighty Mussels eclipsed a Miracle era (1992-2019) record set Aug. 7, 2012, (22 runs) with their 24-run outburst.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The previous Mussels\u2019 era record (since 2020) was 19 runs scored against the Jupiter Hammerheads June 10, 2021. It is the third time the Mighty Mussels have scored 15+ runs in a game.<\/p>\n
The offense also set a Mussels\u2019 record for hits with 21. The previous record was 20 hits, which also happened June 10, 2021. The all-time franchise record is 24 hits, done by the Miracle May 14, 2009.<\/p>\n
The 24-8 final score also set a franchise record for total runs in a game (32) surpassing the previous total of 27 runs, which had occurred eight total times. That total happened five times during the Miracle era (1992-2019) and three times during the Mussels\u2019 era.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All nine batters reached base at least two times, led by\u00a0Bruin Agbayani\u00a0who reached five times.\u00a0The Mussels\u2019 shortstop paced the offense by going 4-for-6 with five runs scored and three RBI. The five runs scored is an all-time franchise era record. Four runs had been scored by a single player 25 times since 1992, most recently by\u00a0Rixon Wingrove\u00a0in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Irvin Nunez\u00a0went 3-for-6 with six RBI and three runs scored. He fell one RBI shy of\u00a0Andrew Cossetti\u2019s\u00a0Mussels\u2019 record of seven, done in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mussels\u2019 starter\u00a0Matthew Dalquist\u00a0went 4.1 innings, striking out eight while allowing three runs (one earned). The eight strikeouts were the most by a Mussels\u2019 pitcher this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As we flip the calendar to May, Mussel pitching finishes the month of April with a MiLB leading 2.73 ERA and six shutouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leadoff man\u00a0Ramiro Dominguez\u00a0went 4-for-5 with two doubles and four runs scored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
JP Smith II\u00a0drove in two and scored four times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jason Bass\u00a0drove in five and scored three times while recording three hits.<\/p>\n
Bron Chourio\u00a0recorded four hits, and\u00a0Harry Genth\u00a0had two hits and three runs scored.\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0also had two hits.<\/p>\n
The start of the game was delayed by 1:35 due to rain. Following the delay, the Fort Myers offense exploded for seven runs in the second inning. Smith II led off with a single to center. Two batters later, Nunez\u00a0tripled to center to make it 1-0. Bass followed with a two-run shot to center, making it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Later in the frame, Agbayani\u00a0singled to center, plating another pair of runs. Smith II grounded into a fielder\u2019s choice that was followed with a throwing error on the double play attempt, allowing two more runs to score and making it 7-0.<\/p>\n
The seven runs matched a single-inning season high and is the third time the team has reached that mark. It is the second time this week that have scored seven runs in an inning against the Tortugas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daytona got on the board in the bottom of the frame on a sacrifice fly, moving the margin to 7-1.<\/p>\n
Leading off the third, Bass reached on a walk. He would later score on a balk to make it 8-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the score 8-4 in the sixth inning, the Fort Myers offense put up another crooked number. After a leadoff walk to Genth,\u00a0Dominguez\u00a0doubled down the left field line to make it 9-4. Agbayani followed with an opposite field single to make it 10-4. Four batters later, Nunez drew a bases loaded run to put the Mussels ahead by seven.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mussels\u2019 added six more runs in the seventh, three in the eighth, and two more in the ninth. Those 11 runs were highlighted by a two-run single from Bass, an RBI single for Chourio,\u00a0an RBI double from Genth, and the first Single-A homer for Nunez.<\/p>\n
The series continues today, May 1.\u00a0Merit Jones\u00a0(0-1, 1.93) starts for the Mussels. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irvin Nunez drove in six runs in the 24-8 win. PHOTO PROVIDED DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The Fort Myers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-254019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}