Dragons drop 5th straight, again fall in extra innings
Extra-inning games have been a headache for the Dayton Dragons this season — and Friday night’s game was no exception.
Great Lakes scored in the top of the 10th, beating the Dragons 1-0 in front of 7,979 With two outs in the fans at Fifth Third Field. The 10th, Dragons center fielder Loons — the Midwest League Michael Siani walked and East Division first-half win- Miguel Hernandez moved ners — swept the three-game to third on a wild pitch by series, including two extra-inthe Loons’ Justin Bruihl. The nings victories. next batter, Mariel Bautista,
Dayton fell to 1-6 in lined out to the shortstop Valextra-inning games, includera to end the game. ing 0-3 at home. The Dragons threatened in
“We haven’t executed the the ninth. Warren and Martiway we should,” said man- nez singled and moved into ager Luis Bolivar. “We maybe scoring position on a wild put too much pressure on pitch by Cody Ochsenbien ourselves in that type of sit- — the first time the Dragons uation.” moved a runner to third.
After winning six of However, Miguel Hernanseven games earlier this dez grounded out to shortmonth, the Dragons have stop to end the inning. lost five straight, including Dragons first baseman three against Great Lakes — Cameron Warren had two although by the slimmest of hits. margins. The Dragons fell to 14-18 in
The Dragons fell to the the second half and sit seven Loons 2-0 in 10 innings on games back of first-place Wednesday. They led 4-3 Bowling Green (21-11). Dayton Thursday, but Great Lakes is two games back of South scored three runs in the ninth Bend and Lansing, who are Officially, the to earn a 6-4 victory. tied for the second-half wild- Cincinnati Reds acquired
The third in the series was card at 16-16. Alex Wood from the Los another nailbiter. “We’re just taking it game- Angeles Dodgers in a trade
Dragons starter Connor by-game,” Bolivar said. last December.
Curlis threw seven innings, “We’ve got a month to go. Unofficially, being forced allowing no runs on six hits We’ve got to keep playing by injury to delay his Cincinwith one walk and two strike- good games. We can’t look nati debut until today makes outs. Reliever Andy Fisher — ahead. We’ve got to keep the left-hander look more the Midwest League pitcher going day-by-day.” like a trade deadline pickup. of the week — was also stelThe Dragons head to Fort Wood doesn’t care. He’s lar in relief, tossing three Wayne for three games just happy to finally be able innings and allowing one before returning home Tuesto pitch after missing the hit and one unearned run. day for back-to-back fourentire season with lower
“It was a great job by both game series against Bowl- back spasms. of them,” Bolivar said. “They ing Green and Lake County. Wood learned from manattacked and mixed pitches. Dayton doesn’t have ager David Bell on WednesThat’s two good outings another off day until Aug. 13. day that he would be startin a row, at home and on “This is the tough part,” ing Sunday’s 1:10 p.m. series the road. They gave us all Bolivar said. “This is the part finale against the Colorado they had. I’m very proud where you have to learn to Rockies. of them.” grind and work.” “On Wednesday, David
By rule, each team starts Promoted: Dragons called me,” Wood said on Frithe 10th inning with a runner catcher and Midwest League day. “Before he could even at second base. The Loons’ All-Star Pabel Manzanero was ask me anything, I told him Dan Robinson grounded out called up to advanced-A DayI felt good and I was ready to second base, moving Leotona (Fla.) earlier this week. to go. He said, ‘All right, nel Valera to third. The next Manzanero was leading the you’re starting Sunday.’ I batter, Kody Hoese, hit a fly Dragons in hits (95), douwas ecstatic, man. I’m just ball to left fielder Nate Scantbles (25), home runs (10), ready to get this thing going.” lin that scored Valera to give RBIs (44) and batting averWood’s back started both- the Loons a 1-0 lead. age (.244). ering him in spring training. Dragons at Fort Wayne, 3:05 p.m. the behind also had six RBIs last July 31, for Washington against the New York Mets.
David Dahl hit a two-run homer, and Charlie Black- mon had three hits and two RBIs for the Rockies, who had lost 16 of 19 before winning 8-7 at Washington on Thursday.
German Marquez (6-9) 1410 His road to being activated has been marked by speed bumps, but he once was able to get started on a rehab regimen, he gathered momen- tum. Over his four rehab assignment starts since July 6 – three for Triple-A Louisville and one for Double-A Chattanooga – Wood is 1-1 with a 3.18 ERA. He lasted six innings with one earned run, four hits, no walks and four strikeouts while throwing 85 pitches for Chattanooga in his fourth start on Monday.
Wood was supposed to get just five innings in that game, but he was still short of his pitch count and wanted one more. A call was placed to head trainer Steve Baumann with the Reds in Milwaukee and he gave the green light. allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings, struck out seven and walked none, his second straight sharp outing after allowing a career- worst 11 runs to San Francisco.
“To come in here against Castillo and knowing what he was up against shows what kind of pitcher German is,” Colorado manager