Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

The White Caps and Lugnuts combined for 23 runs on 36 hits in a 12-11 Lugnuts win as the two team’s regular seasons winded down.  The White Caps came back from four runs down to tie it and send it into extra frames and then both teams scored twice in the eleventh.  Then finally in the thirteenth, Zachary Piccola gave up a solo homer to end the game.

Four different White Caps had three hits and seven had two or more.  Jeramy Laster went three for seven with three RBIs and a run while James Skelton had the White Caps lone long ball with a a two run homer in the third inning.

Zachary Piccola gave up three unearned runs in the top of the tenth inning as the White Caps lost to the Loons 5-3.  He gave up one hit and one walk with one strikeout in that single frame.

James Skelton singled, scored and drove in a run.  Michael Bertram doubled and drew a walk.

Jonah Nickerson had a pretty good start in the White Caps 4-3 win over South Bend. He gave up three runs (two earned) on ten hits and five walks with two strikeouts in seven innings.  Zachary Piccola picked up the win with two shutout innings and he improved to 1-0 on the season.

Gorkys Hernandez went two for five with a double and a run.  Brennan Boesch singled twice and he drove in two runs.