Host Gateway scored six runs in the first inning on the way to a 9-1 victory over the Crushers on July 26 in Sauget, Ill.<\/p>\n
Alex Garbrick (0-3) made his third start for Lake Erie and gave up all six runs in the first, including a three-run home run.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies added three runs in the fourth inning to make it 9-0.<\/p>\n
The Crushers (28-38) scored their run in the eighth inning when third baseman Pavin Parks hit a home run to right field. Parks has 14 homers this season, tied for fifth in the Frontier League. He also has 49 RBI.<\/p>\n
The Crushers had six hits total, all by different players. Right fielder Garret Pike had a double, his 10th of the season.<\/p>\n
Position players Jacob Tobias and Samuel Benjamin each pitched one inning for Lake Erie. Benjamin recorded a strikeout, the first by a Lake Erie position player this season.<\/p>\n
After winning the first game of the series, 8-5, Lake Erie was shut out in the second game before managing one run on July 26.<\/p>\n
The Crushers are 2-4 through the first week of their 12-game, two-week road trip. They have a travel day July 27 before beginning a three-game series against the Jackals on July 28 in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Host Gateway scored six runs in the first inning on the way to a 9-1 victory over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19154,136,138,137,726],"class_list":["post-252663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-crushers","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}