JUPITER\u00a0\u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels were defeated by the Palm Beach Cardinals by a final score of 3-1 Sunday afternoon at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium.<\/p>\n
Fort Myers (64-54, 27-26) tabbed\u00a0Eric Hammond\u00a0to start the series finale. Hammond struck out one Palm Beach (60-60, 27-27) hitter in a clean first inning.<\/p>\n
In the top of the fourth inning,\u00a0The Mussels\u2019 Ramiro Dominguez\u00a0was hit by a pitch to lead off the frame. Dominguez then stole his 24th base of the season, which is second on the ballclub (Merphy Hernandez, 42).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mussels\u2019 offense drew five free passes over the first three innings but could not break through against Cardinal pitchers Jefferson Moran and Dallis Moran.<\/p>\n
In the fifth, facing Moran, Fort Myers finally paid off a walk. After\u00a0Byran Acuna\u00a0was walked to lead off the inning, he stole second base and advanced to third on a throwing error. Two batters later,\u00a0Colby Turner\u00a0drove Acuna in on a sacrifice fly to open the scoring.<\/p>\n
Hammond spun 4.2 innings of shutdown ball, allowing one hit and striking out three over 63 pitches. He set a season-high in innings and tied his max in pitches.<\/p>\n
Melvin Rodriguez\u00a0(0-2) took over with two out in the fifth and finished the inning. In the bottom of the sixth, he surrendered back-to-back one-out hits that tied the game at one.<\/p>\n
Jake Covey\u00a0took over and inherited a runner at second. He allowed a two-run home run to the first batter he faced as Palm Beach took a 3-1 advantage.<\/p>\n
In the top of the seventh,\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0led off with a single, the first hit of the day for Fort Myers. The Mussels got second and third with two out, but could not capitalize.<\/p>\n
Hendry Chivilli\u00a0took over in the eighth inning and fanned three Cardinals.<\/p>\n
The Mighty Mussels could not score in the top of the ninth and they lost the series finale to Palm Beach. Fort Myers finished the regular season with a 25-17 record against FSL East opponents, going 5-7 against Palm Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The final two series of the season are both against FSL West foes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a day off today, Fort Myers returns home Tuesday, Aug. 25 to play the Bradenton Marauders, beginning the final home series of the regular season. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER\u00a0\u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels were defeated by the Palm Beach Cardinals by a final score of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-379722","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\/379722","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=379722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}