BRADENTON\u00a0\u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the Bradenton Marauders 4-2 Wednesday night at LECOM Park.<\/p>\n
Outfielders\u00a0Bryce Fowler\u00a0and Minnesota Twins No. 28 prospect\u00a0Yovanny Duran\u00a0both made their Florida State League debuts and combined to drive in three of the Mussels (55-47, 18-19) four runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pirates No. 6 prospect Wyatt Sanford (rehabbing from High-A) led off the bottom of the first with a home run for the second straight night, putting Bradenton (45-57, 14-23) ahead 1-0 against\u00a0Callan Fang.<\/p>\n
In the second, with\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0at third, Duran picked up an RBI in his first FSL at-bat with a ground ball on the right side, leveling the score 1-1.<\/p>\n
The next inning, Fort Myers saw five straight men reach to take the lead.\u00a0Carson Tinney\u00a0and\u00a0Colby Turner\u00a0started the rally with a pair of walks, chasing Bradenton starter Zander Mueth (1-3) from the game. After Dioris Martinez entered from the bullpen,\u00a0Aidan Teel\u00a0blasted a double off the wall in right to make it 2-1. Fowler,\u00a0an undrafted free agent who was signed out of Alabama, followed with his first professional hit, a two-run single. Young added the final hit of the frame and Fowler was caught trying to go first to third. The Mussels recorded three straight 100+ mph exit velocities to take a 4-1 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fang exited after 3.2 innings and a season-high 63 pitches. He left with men at first and second and just one out.\u00a0Hendry Chivilli\u00a0needed just three pitches to escape the jam and strand the pair of inherited runners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bradenton catcher Richard Ramirez connected on a leadoff homer in the sixth to make it 4-2. Chivilli worked 2.1 innings and allowed one run on one hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Murray\u00a0recorded a pair of outs but had to exit with an injury in the seventh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Hilker Jr.\u00a0(S4) worked the final 2.1 innings and racked up five strikeouts to close out the ballgame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The series continues today, Aug. 6. Twins No. 23 prospect\u00a0Matt Barr\u00a0(6.75) starts for the Mussels, opposite Pirates No. 16 prospect Levi Sterling (4.24). First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. with coverage beginning at 6:15 p.m. on the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON\u00a0\u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the Bradenton Marauders 4-2 Wednesday night at LECOM Park. Outfielders\u00a0Bryce Fowler\u00a0and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-364440","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\/364440","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=364440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}