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KALAMAZOO, MI., — The Battle Creek Bombers found themselves in a tough spot Tuesday night, in an 11-5 loss to the Kalamazoo Mac Daddies.<\/p>\n
The bats were hot, racking up 10 hits on the night, but Battle Creek\u2019s pitching faltered to hand the Bombers their third loss of the season.<\/p>\n
The scoring got going early though for the Bombers, with TJ McKenzie<\/strong> scoring on a passed ball in the top of the first, giving the Bombers a 1-0 lead. They continued their strong offensive start in the second, putting up two runs, one coming off of a Tyler Wardwell<\/strong> RBI double.<\/p>\n With a three-run lead going into the home half of the second, starting pitcher Ty Weatherly<\/strong> struggled finding the strike zone. He surrendered four walks, along with a base hit, allowing five runs to cross the plate. After two innings, it was 5-3 Mac Daddies.<\/p>\n The Bombers pulled within one run in the top of the sixth thanks to a Wardwell sacrifice fly, scoring Joe Mason<\/strong>. In the home half of the inning, Kalamazoo retaliated with an RBI single from Gavin Doyle<\/strong>. The Mac Daddies led 6-4.<\/p>\n The game was quiet for a couple innings, until the bottom of the eighth. Thomas Shultz<\/strong> struggled in relief, allowing three runs on 21 pitches, only retiring two Mac Daddies in the inning. Trace Peterson<\/strong>, who started as the designated hitter, got his shot in relief. He allowed two more runs on a Garrett Navarra<\/strong> homerun, totaling five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, giving Kalamazoo an 11-4 lead.<\/p>\n The last push from the Bombers came off the bat from right fielder Justin Van De Brake<\/strong>, with a solo homer to lead off the away half of the ninth. The Bombers fall to 5-3 on the season, and fall for their second straight game.<\/p>\n They return to action tomorrow, Wednesday, July 15th<\/sup>, at 6:35 p.m. against the Kalamazoo Growlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KALAMAZOO, MI., — The Battle Creek Bombers found themselves in a tough spot Tuesday night, in an 11-5 loss to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"\n