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Article by Nevada Cullen, Photo by Melissa Vozar<\/em><\/p>\n KENOSHA, WI — Battle Creek Battle Jacks starting pitcher Justin Graves<\/strong> fired seven strong innings and punched out eight, while the offense compiled 11 hits in the Battle Jacks’ 10-4 victory over the Kenosha Kingfish on Saturday.<\/p>\n After back-to-back walks to start the game, Jace Matkin<\/strong> jacked a two-run double to right center. A throwing error brought him home, and the Battle Jacks led 3-0 early.<\/p>\n Dillon Kark<\/strong> roped the first pitch of the second inning down the left field line for a double. Following another Kenosha error, Fisher Pyatt<\/strong> drove Kark home with an RBI single to give the Battle Jacks a 4-0 edge.<\/p>\n Battle Creek struck again in the third with a Robbie Merced<\/strong> solo shot to left. It marked his second long ball against the Kingfish, after he blasted a three-run, walk-off home run on Sunday.<\/p>\n Then, the Battle Jacks scored for a fourth straight inning. Pat Mills<\/strong> doubled down the right field line to score Rafael Gomez Jr.<\/strong> on a perfectly executed hit-and-run. Mills plated Gomez again in the sixth with an RBI single to extend the lead to 7-0.<\/p>\n Later in the seventh, Isaiah Gibbs<\/strong> came through with a two-out, two-run single into center. Mills drove in his third run with a bases-loaded walk to put the Battle Jacks up by 10.<\/p>\n Graves finally exited in the eight, and finished with no earned runs allowed. He yielded just three hits and two walks in the longest start for a Battle Creek hurler this season.<\/p>\n The Kingfish got four back in the eighth with a three-run homer by Brady Counsell.<\/strong> But, Caleb Lanoux<\/strong> entered to end the side and pitched a scoreless ninth to seal the game.<\/p>\n With the win, the Battle Jacks (8-4) are back on top of the Great Lakes East division. They host the Kalamazoo Growlers Sunday, with first pitch at 1:35 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Article by Nevada Cullen, Photo by Melissa Vozar KENOSHA, WI — Battle Creek Battle Jacks starting pitcher Justin Graves fired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9842,"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":[25,135,42,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-categories","category-game-recaps","category-permanentslider","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"\n