Captains Score Franchise-Record 20 Runs In Win Over Dragons

July 6, 2024 – Midwest League (MWL)
Lake County Captains News Release

EASTLAKE, OH – In the second game of a scheduled three-game home series, the Lake County Captains (7-6, 48-31) defeated the Dayton Dragons (8-6, 42-38) by a final score of 20-1 on Friday night at Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake.

Lake County set a franchise record with 20 runs, which included a 12-run bottom of the seventh inning that tied a franchise record for most runs in an inning.

The Captains made 18 plate appearances in the frame, which were the team’s most in an inning since at least 2005.

Lake County’s first four batters of the frame reached base. After RF Guy Lipscomb began the half-inning with a walk, SS Angel Genao, MLB Pipeline’s No. 11 Cleveland prospect, hit an RBI double to extend the Captains’ lead to 6-1. Then, 3B Alex Mooney, MLB Pipeline’s No. 20 Cleveland prospect, and C Cooper Ingle, MLB Pipeline’s No. 30 prospect, hit back-to-back home runs to make it a 9-1 contest.

Following a flyout from DH Jorge Burgos, six of the next seven Lake County hitters drew walks, with three straight bases-loaded walks capping off this stretch. A two-run single from Ingle, a two-run double from CF Jake Fox, MLB Pipeline’s No. 18 Cleveland prospect, and an RBI single from LF Jonah Advincula concluded the Captains’ seventh-inning surge.

Lake County then added another three runs in the eighth with an RBI ground-rule double from Mooney, an RBI single from Ingle, and a sacrifice fly from Burgos. The tandem of Mooney and Ingle combined to go 7-for-8 at the plate with nine runs, two home runs, eight RBI, and three walks, with Mooney stealing a base.

The Captains jumped out to a 4-0 lead through four innings. In the home half of the first, Burgos hit an RBI ground-rule double, and 2B Jose Devers, MLB Pipeline’s No. 19 Cleveland prospect, ripped an RBI single. Fox tallied an RBI single two innings later, and 1B Maick Collado added a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth.

After leading off the bottom of the fifth with a hit-by-pitch, Mooney made it a 5-1 game by stealing second base and scoring on the play courtesy of a pair of Dragons errors.

Captains RHP Trenton Denholm (8-2) earned his eighth win of the season. The right-hander pitched six innings, allowing just three hits, one earned run, and three walks, while throwing four strikeouts in 78 pitches (58 strikes). Dayton’s lone run of the night was courtesy of a two-out RBI single from RF Hector Rodriguez, MLB Pipeline’s No. 12…