Quentin Young hits 14th home run against Bradenton.\n<\/p>\n
Fang strikes out nine, Mussels secure series win over Marauders<\/p>\n
BRADENTON \u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the Bradenton Marauders by a final score of 5-3 Sunday afternoon at LECOM Park.<\/p>\n
Fort Myers (58-48, 21-20) sent\u00a0Callan Fang\u00a0to the mound to make his 12th appearance of the season. He recorded the first eight outs on strikeouts, setting a career-high in punch outs.<\/p>\n
Fang\u2019s nine total strikeouts are the most by a Mussels\u2019 pitcher this season. The previous high was eight, last set by\u00a0Merit Jones\u00a0on June 2. Fang\u2019s day was over after 3.2 scoreless innings, allowing just one hit.<\/p>\n
The Mighty Mussels continued to close in on their single-season stolen bases record. With three more today, Fort Myers sits at 230 steals on the season, just six off tying the record set last season. They have the most stolen bases in the Florida State League and are fourth in all of Single-A.<\/p>\n
Vahn Lackey\u00a0led off the top of the fourth inning with a bloop double down the right field line, but the Mussels could not bring in the 2026 1st rounder and the game remained scoreless.<\/p>\n
With two outs in the top of the sixth,\u00a0Isaiah Lane\u00a0and\u00a0Luis Fragoza\u00a0recorded back-to-back singles against Bradenton\u2019s (46-60, 15-26) Wifrailyn Jaquez (0-1). After a pitching change, the Mussels finally broke through.<\/p>\n
Yovanny Duran\u00a0went up the middle to score Lane and give the Mussels the lead. The next batter was\u00a0Colby Turner, who looped a jam-shot single to score two men and put Fort Myers on top 3-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Marauders fought back in the bottom of the frame against\u00a0Jake Covey\u00a0(1-0). A two-out, two-run double from Antonio Pimentel cut Fort Myers lead to 3-2. Covey held there, leaving runners at second and third.<\/p>\n
Hendry Chivilli\u00a0(S1) took over in the seventh, recording three groundouts in a 1-2-3 inning.<\/p>\n
In the top of the eighth, with Lane and Duran in scoring position, an error by Bradenton pitcher Tony Gonzalez led to two more runs.<\/p>\n
Chvilli gave up a solo blast to Triple-A rehabber Nick Cimillo in the eighth, making the score 5-3.<\/p>\n
A heavy downpour at LECOM Park caused a weather delay in the bottom of the ninth inning. After 44 minutes, Sunday\u2019s game was called. Bradenton had the tying run at the plate with one out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fort Myers has now won back-to-back series on the road after winning four of seven in St. Lucie in late July. They sit in a tie for third place in the FSL West 2nd Half standings, six games off the pacing Tampa Tarpons with 25 games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT:\u00a0The Mighty Mussels return home Tuesday, Aug. 11, to begin a six-game series with the Clearwater Threshers. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. with coverage beginning at 6:40 p.m. on the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network.<\/p>\n
Four run third Inning leads Fort Myers past Bradenton, 6-1<\/p>\n
BRADENTON \u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the Bradenton Marauders 6-1 Saturday night at LECOM Park.<\/p>\n
With the bases loaded and two outs in the third,\u00a0Yovanny Duran\u00a0opened the scoring with a two-run double to left.\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0followed with a two-run double of his own, off the wall in right-center, to make it 4-0 and chase Marauders\u2019 (48-59, 15-25) starter Reinold Navarro (4-2) from the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four runs allowed were the most this season for the Pirates No. 12 prospect. Navarro has been the best pitcher in the FSL, leading the league with 111 strikeouts across 20 appearances. The Fort Myers\u2019 (57-48, 20-20) offense brought his ERA up from 2.34 to 2.80.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mussels\u2019 starter\u00a0Ramiro Villanueva\u00a0went 2.2 innings before exiting with the bases loaded in the third.\u00a0Eric Hammond\u00a0(1-4) induced a comebacker on a check swing to escape the jam.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the fifth,\u00a0Carson Tinney\u00a0led off with a single to center off of Triple-A rehabber Sean Sullivan.\u00a0Ramiro Dominguez\u00a0followed with his third walk in as many plate appearances. Then\u00a0Aidan Teel\u00a0connected on a double to the right field corner to make it 5-0. Two batters later, Young delivered a sacrifice fly to deep right to make it 6-0 and bring in his third RBI of the game. Young now has driven in at least three runs six different times this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hammond worked 3.1 innings of one-run ball. He struck out four and exited with the Mussels leading 6-1 through six innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nick McAuliffe\u00a0held the lead across the seventh and eighth innings, striking out four and facing one above the minimum.\u00a0Michael Hilker Jr.\u00a0needed just eight pitches to retire the side in the ninth and secure the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McAuliffe and Hilker faced just two above the minimum and combined to strike out five batters across the final three frames.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Young sets exit velocity record In doubleheader split<\/p>\n
BRADENTON \u00a0\u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels split their doubleheader against the Bradenton Marauders Friday night at LECOM Park. A rain-out Thursday night set the stage for Friday\u2019s twinbill.<\/p>\n
In game one,\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0set a franchise record for exit velocity. His 14th homer of the year left the bat at 115.8 mph, beating\u00a0Carson Tinney\u00a0who had just set the record on Sunday at 114.9. Young now has five homers with exit velocities above 111 mph this season. The Minnesota Twins\u2019 No. 11 prospect trails only\u00a0JP Smith II\u00a0(15 HR earlier this season) for the most homers in a season since the franchise switched to Single-A in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Due to an hour and 45 minute weather delay prior to game one, game two did not conclude until 12:05 a.m., marking the latest finish of the season and surpassing the 11:53 p.m. wrap on May 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game 1: Fort Myers 6, Bradenton 4<\/p>\n
Mussels\u2019 starter\u00a0Matt Barr\u00a0went 3+ innings and allowed four runs (two earned) while picking up a pair of strikeouts. Young\u2019s homer in the fourth briefly put Fort Myers ahead 2-1 before Bradenton struck for three runs in the bottom of the frame to make it 4-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the fifth,\u00a0Isaiah Lane\u00a0tripled to right-center, plating\u00a0Bryce Fowler. Three batters later, Twins\u2019 No. 28 prospect\u00a0Yovanny Duran\u00a0connected on his first FSL homer, a go-ahead three-run blast to make it 6-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matthew Dalquist\u00a0(3-3) took over with two men aboard in the third and covered the final four innings. After allowing one inherited runner to score, he kept Bradenton off the board for the rest of the game. Dalquist struck out three Marauders while throwing 34 of his 51 pitches for strikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Game 2:\u00a0 Bradenton 7, Fort Myers 3<\/p>\n
Mussels\u2019 starter\u00a0Cristian Hernandez\u00a0allowed a run in the first after walking two batters, hitting another and committing an error. The righty did punch out two, but needed 33 pitches to navigate in his first FSL inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trailing 1-0 with two-outs in the top of the second,\u00a0Merphy Hernandez connected on a two-run single to put Fort Myers ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
C. Hernandez exited after 2.1 innings. The 21-year-old struck out four of the final five batters he faced and the lone run he allowed was unearned.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the fourth,\u00a0Aidan Teel\u00a0and M. Hernandez executed a double steal to draw home the third Fort Myers\u2019 run of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adam Falinksi\u00a0worked 1.2 innings of one-run ball, holding the lead.<\/p>\n
Melvin Rodriguez\u00a0(0-1) took over in the fifth for his FSL debut. The 20-year-old allowed three runs, including a go-ahead home run from Antonio Pimentel to flip the lead 5-3.<\/p>\n
Bradenton added another two runs off Rodriguez in the sixth to extend the margin 7-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Young hits 14th home run against Bradenton. Fang strikes out nine, Mussels secure series win over Marauders…\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-368862","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\/368862","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=368862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368862\/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=368862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}