Merphy Hernandez stole two more bases Thursday in the Mighty Mussels’ win.<\/p>\n
FORT MYERS \u2013 The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the Bradenton Marauders by a final score of 4-2 Thursday night at Lee Health Sports Complex.<\/p>\n
Merphy Hernandez\u00a0stole bases number 45 and 46 tonight, moving past\u00a0Ben Revere\u00a0(2009) for the second-most in a single-season in franchise history (since 1992). The top spot belongs to\u00a0Anthony Felston, who stole 86 bases in 1998.<\/p>\n
Since being promoted to Single-A on May 21, Hernandez leads the Florida State League and is tied for second among all full-season MiLB players in steals. He steals a base 58% of the time he reaches base and averages .84 steals per game. Despite only playing in 55 of Fort Myers\u2019 122 games, Hernandez accounts for 16% of the Mussels\u2019 steals in their record-breaking season, which has seen the team\u2019s total climb to 280.<\/p>\n
Fort Myers (67-55, 30-27) sent\u00a0Cristian Hernandez\u00a0to the mound to make his fourth start of the season. He worked around a pair of one-out singles and struck out two Marauders (52-68, 21-34) in a scoreless first.<\/p>\n
The Mussels grabbed the lead in the bottom of the first. M. Hernandez smoked a first-pitch triple into the right-center field gap. Three batters later,\u00a0Isaiah Lane\u00a0punched a single into right field to score the run and give Fort Myers a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
After\u00a0Bryce Fowler\u00a0doubled to begin the bottom of the second inning,\u00a0Quentin Young\u00a0delivered a first-pitch RBI knock to double the Mussels\u2019 lead.<\/p>\n
Young swiped second during the next at-bat, marking the 17th consecutive game with a stolen base for the Mighty Mussels. This ties the longest streak in franchise history, set earlier this year from May 21 to June 9. It is the second-longest streak in the FSL this year and the longest active streak among full-season MiLB clubs.<\/p>\n
After Bradenton got a run in the top of the third, Fort Myers responded in the bottom half.\u00a0Carson Tinney, who doubled earlier in the inning, came into score on a wild pitch. Later in the frame, Young drove home\u00a0Colby Turner\u00a0on a sacrifice fly to make it 4-1.<\/p>\n
C. Hernandez was done after 3.2 innings. He recorded a season-high in strikeouts with the Mussels with six, allowing just one run.\u00a0Rainer Marin\u00a0(1-0) replaced him and made his FSL debut, working 1.1 innings and registering his first Single-A strikeout.<\/p>\n
Adam Falinski\u00a0took over in the sixth. Over two innings, he surrendered one run and stranded the bases loaded in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Nick McAuliffe\u00a0(S1) replaced Falinski in the eighth. McAuliffe slammed the door over the final two innings, giving the Mussels their third win in four games this week.<\/p>\n
The series continues today, Aug. 28, with Fan Appreciation Night at Lee Health Sports Complex. Fort Myers sends\u00a0Matthew Dalquist\u00a0(4.66) to the mound, while Bradenton counters with Yonleg Gaetano (4.43). First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. with coverage beginning at 6:40 p.m. on the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merphy Hernandez stole two more bases Thursday in the Mighty Mussels’ win. FORT MYERS \u2013 The Fort Myers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-383709","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\/383709","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=383709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}