JUPITER \u2013 Vahn Lackey connected on his first professional homer and Carson Tinney reached base four times as the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels fell 7-6 to the Palm Beach Cardinals Friday night at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium.<\/p>\n
Palm Beach (59-59, 26-26) opened the scoring in the bottom of the first off of Matthew Dalquist. After a leadoff single from Ryan Mitchell, Cardinals No. 20 prospect Sebastian Dos Santos homered to right, making it 2-0. <\/p>\n
In the second, Isaiah Lane and Jimmy Keenan worked back-to-back walks on full counts from Jan Cabrera. Quentin Young then shot a 106-mph single through the right side to make it 2-1. <\/p>\n
The Cardinals added to their lead with a run in the second, making it 3-1. <\/p>\n
With one out in the fourth, Minnesota Twins\u2019 No. 2 prospect Lackey connected on his first professional homer, a 106-mph blast to left center. Twins\u2019 No. 10 prospect Tinney followed with a blast of his own (his fifth) as the top two picks in this summer\u2019s draft went back-to-back to tie the game 3-3. It was the third time the Mussels\u2019 (63-53, 26-25) offense has hit back-to-back homers this season. <\/p>\n
After Aidan Teel reached on an error, Ramiro Dominguez doubled to give Fort Myers the lead 4-3. <\/p>\n
Dalquist retired seven straight Cardinals across the second, third and fourth before allowing back-to-back hits to Trevor Haskins and Ryan Mitchell. Mitchell\u2019s knock was a game-tying double, knotting the score 4-4. Following the double, Matthew Becker took over on the mound and retired the second batter he faced to close the frame. <\/p>\n
Tinney led off the fifth with a walk and advanced to third on a double from Teel off the wall in right. Tinney later scored on a wild pitch to put the Mussels back in front 5-4. <\/p>\n
With a runner at third and one out in the bottom of the inning, Dominguez made a nice play on a chopper to cut down the tying run. <\/p>\n
Becker exited after 1.1 innings. His season ERA remains at 0.00 across 8.1 FSL innings, with just two hits allowed. <\/p>\n
Brent Fransico took over in the sixth and allowed a game tying sacrifice fly from Dos Santos to level the score for the third time. <\/p>\n
Tinney led off the seventh with a double down the left field line. A wild pitch advanced him to third and Dominguez later brought him home on a sacrifice fly to make it 6-5. <\/p>\n
Francisco exited with one out and a runner at first in the eighth. Adam Falinski (2-2) took over and struck out the first batter he faced before issuing a walk and allowing a two-run go-ahead double to Alexander Frias. <\/p>\n
For Falinski, it was his second blown save in as many appearances this week after converting on his first four chances in a Mussels\u2019 uniform. Fort Myers has converted just 46% of its save opportunities this year. <\/p>\n
The series continues Saturday, Aug. 22. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. with coverage beginning at 5:50 p.m. on the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER \u2013 Vahn Lackey connected on his first professional homer and Carson Tinney reached base four times as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-378550","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\/378550","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=378550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}