DUNEDIN, Fla. \u2013 JP Smith II homered and drove in three runs as the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the Dunedin Blue Jays by a final of 6-4 Wednesday Night at TD Ballpark.<\/p>\n
Trailing 1-0 with one out in the fourth inning, Smith shot an opposite field home run into the Blue Jays (15-25) bullpen to open the scoring and make it a 1-1 game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dunedin would strike again in the bottom of the frame off of Mussels\u2019 (23-17) starter Ramiro Villanueva to retake the lead 2-1 on an RBI single from Aldo Gaiola.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Villanueva allowed a pair of runs across 3.2 innings of work, striking out two. He gave way to Jake Murray (2-1) who worked a scoreless 1.1 innings in relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the fifth, Henry Kusiak delivered an RBI single to left, tying the game 2-2. Smith followed with a sacrifice fly to put Fort Myers ahead 3-2.<\/p>\n
Still leading by that score in the seventh, Damuery Pena and Ramiro Dominguez opened the frame with a single and a double. Smith then recorded his second sacrifice fly of the night to make it 4-2. A wild pitch allowed Dominguez to score and extend the lead 5-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Right hander Kolten Smith worked three stellar frames in relief, matching a season high with six strikeouts while not issuing a walk.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the ninth, Dominguez recorded the Mussels third sacrifice fly of the night to further extend the lead 6-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mitch Mueller allowed a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame but worked out of further trouble to secure the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luis Fragoza made his Florida State League debut in center field and went 1-for-4 with a double and a run scored.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The series continues with a doubleheader today, May 21. The teams are playing two games due to a rainout Tuesday. First pitch of game one is set for 4:30 p.m. from TD Ballpark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN, Fla. \u2013 JP Smith II homered and drove in three runs as the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels…\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-279556","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\/279556","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=279556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279556\/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=279556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}