Sussex County racked up 20 hits, including three doubles, a triple and a grand slam, in a 19-5 rout over the visiting Crushers on July 31.<\/p>\n
Lake Erie (29-41) already trailed, 4-0, entering the fifth inning. A Miners grand slam in the fifth put them behind by eight runs. Then the Miners piled on nine runs in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n
Crushers starter Gauge Lockhart took the worst of it. Lockhart gave up eight runs in four innings, did not record a strikeout and walked three.<\/p>\n
Lake Erie scored one run in the seventh inning on a sacrifice fly by Luis Acevedo. The Crushers scored four runs in the eighth inning on a two-run single by Pavin Parks and a two-run double by Samuel Benjamin.<\/p>\n
Chayton Krauss had three of the Crushers\u2019 seven hits and scored a run. Benjamin also pitched 1 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
The Crushers and Miners will continue their series Aug. 1 at Sussex County. The Crushers are 3-7 through 10 games of their two-week, 12-game road trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sussex County racked up 20 hits, including three doubles, a triple and a grand slam, in a 19-5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,726],"class_list":["post-256935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256935","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=256935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256935\/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=256935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}