Harrison Durow gave the Waterloo Bucks (17-8) a masterful performance in an 8-5 win over the Duluth Huskies (8-17) on Thursday evening. The righthander did not allow a hit through five complete before surrendering a leadoff single in the sixth, carving up Duluth with a career-most 6.1 frames of two-hit, two-walk baseball while tying a career-high with seven strikeouts. Thanks to a La Crosse loss in Eau Claire, the Bucks now lead the Great Plains-East by 5.0 games as their magic number moves to seven.<\/p>\n
Daniel Irisarri (2-for-4, BB, R) led off the second with a bunt single before being forced at second on a Cameron Repetti (0-for-5, R) fielder’s choice. Sam Biller (2-for-3, 2 BB, R, 2B, RBI, 2 SB) drew a walk then Chris Seng (0-for-5, R, SB) advanced both men with a groundout. Johnny Tincher (1-for-4, 2 BB, R, RBI) plated Repetti with an infield single, opening the scoring.<\/p>\n
Irisarri opened the fourth with a walk, moved to second on a wild pitch then scored on a Biller double laced into left-center.<\/p>\n
Leading off the fifth, Garrett McGowan (2-for-5, BB, 2 R, HR, 3 RBI, SB) annihilated a solo home run to deep right, giving the Bucks a 3-0 lead while tallying his 250th RBI. Two batters later Max Jung-Goldberg (1-for-3, 2 BB, R, 2B) doubled down the right field line, crossing home a short time later on an errant throw as Josh Kasevich (2-for-5, RBI) singled.<\/p>\n
Durow retired 14 of the first 16 men he faced to pick up his second win of the season, allowing a leadoff single in the sixth that broke up his no-hit bid. He proceeded to retire the next three batters, striking out his seventh of the game to end the inning. Zach Button earned a hold with 1.2 frames of scoreless baseball, striking out two.<\/p>\n
Waterloo added four more in the eighth as Biller singled, stole both second and third then Seng reached on an errant throw following a strikeout. Seng nabbed second, then Tincher walked and McGowan ripped a two-run single to right. Tincher would go on to score on a wild pitch before Kasevich plated McGowan with an RBI single back up the middle.<\/p>\n
Brycen Mautz earned his second save of the summer by inducing a flyout on one pitch, stranding the tying run on first.<\/p>\n
The Bucks and Huskies conclude their season series on Friday night at Wade Stadium with first pitch set for 6:35 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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