Jon Willis – Duluth Huskies Broadcaster<\/p>\n
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The Huskies offense continued to roll on Wednesday, as they scored 21 runs on 20 hits in two games with the Honkers.<\/p>\n
Game 1 was delayed 2 hours due to some rain in the area, but the conditions did not stop the Huskies. The Huskies did get off to a slow start, but thanks to a great start from Austin Humphres and a quality 4 innings out of the bullpen from David Stich, the Huskies were within 2 in the 8th.<\/p>\n
From there, they exploded for 8 runs in the top of the 8th. Jared Mettam tied the game in the 8th with a double to knock in two runs, and they ended up taking the lead on a bases loaded hit by pitch. From there, any run would just be a bonus, and up came Brylan West with the bases loaded and he drilled a ball over the left center wall for a grand slam to get the Huskies to 10 runs. That sucked the life out of the hometown Honkers, and the Huskies held on to win 10-5.<\/p>\n
Humphres went 5 innings, giving up 3 runs on 5 hits with 6 strikeouts and 2 walks. Stich came in relief, and went 4 innings with 2 runs on 7 hits 1 strikeout, and 3 walks.<\/p>\n
Game 2 started right on time, with the Huskies spacing out their runs more in this game, with 3 runs in the 2nd, 6th, and 8th. Duluth got up 5-1 early, but a grand slam from Petey Craska would tie the game.<\/p>\n
Max Coupe single handily gave the Huskies the lead back though, knocking in two runs off a double in the 6th, and then stealing home when he got the pitcher sleeping, to put the Huskies back up.<\/p>\n
Rochester added two in the bottom of the 6th, but then Duluth would put the game away with 3 runs in the 8th, two of them off the bat of Michael Hallquist on a double. From there, Isaac Rohde shut things down on the pitching side of things, and the Huskies won 11-7.<\/p>\n
Jared Mettam ended up going 2-4 with a home run and 2 RBI’s, with 3 walks and 4 runs in game two.<\/p>\n
With the win, the Huskies are now 23-19 overall, and 7-3 in the second half, winners of their last 6 games. They are 1.5 games back of first place, with Waterloo off to a 8-1 start in the second half. They have a huge series coming up with La Crosse Thursday and Friday, with La Crosse off to a 7-1 second half start. With so many teams in the battle for first, this could be a deciding series early in the 2nd half.<\/p>\n
First pitches of both games are set for 6:35 PM CST, you can listen along on the Duluth Huskies YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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