Young’s homer leads Tri-City past Spokane
G.K. Young launched a three-run homer and the Tri-City Dust Devils never trailed in a 9-3 victory over the Spokane Indians Saturday night in Spokane.
Young’s third home run of the season cleared the left-field wall and capped the scoring on a six-run third inning to put the Dust Devils (31-36) up 7-0.
A triple by Buddy Reed in the fourth —his third of the season — scored Nate Easley, then a wild pitch by Spokane reliever Mark Vasquez scored Reed for the Dust Devils’ ninth and final run of the game.
Indians starter Kyle Cody (2-5) got stuck with eight of the runs — all earned — in his 3+ innings.
Tri-City starter Eric Lauer was quietly effective, scattering two hits and a walk while allowing just one run over 4 innings. Adrian De Horta (2-1) threw 4 innings of solid long relief to pick up the win, giving up two unearned runs.
The Dust Devils will try for a three-game series sweep against the Indians (28-39) at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Dust Devils 9, Indians 3
Tri-City ab | r | h | bi | Spokane ab | r | h | bi | ||
Easley 2b | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Taveras cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reed cf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | C.Smith rf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Potts ss | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | C.Lblanc ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Ovrstrt c | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Spivey dh | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tatis 2b | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Kwlaczyk c | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Young 1b | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -Garay c | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
White 3b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A.Tejada 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Asuncion rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Lohr 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Magee lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Terry 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Day lf | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Totals 34 | 9 | 8 | 7 | Totals 33 | 3 | 4 | 2 | ||
Tri-City | 016 | 200 | 000 | — | 9 |
Spokane | 000 | 100 | 200 | — | 3 |
E—White 2 (10). DP—Tri-City 1, Spokane 2. LOB—Tri-City 7, Spokane 4. 2B—Tatis (3), Easley (6), Asuncion (11), Leblanc (11), Day (7). 3B—Reed (3). HR—Young (3).
Tri-City | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Lauer | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
De Horta W,2-1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Seidenberger | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Spokane | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Cody L,2-5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
M.Vasquez | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Dula | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Cody pitched to 1 batter in the 4th. WP—Lauer, De Horta, Cody, M. Vasquez 3. HBP—by Cody (White). Umpires—Home, Codey Davis; First, Tanner Dobson. T—2:48. A—7,014.
This story was originally published August 27, 2016 at 9:38 PM with the headline "Young’s homer leads Tri-City past Spokane."