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The Bucks went 8-for-15 (.533) with runners in scoring position, plating three in the second, four in the third and three more in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Emi Gonzalez (3-for-3, 2 R, 3 RBI) rapped three hits and Sam Biller (2-for-3, BB, 2B, 5 RBI, SB) drove in five while Jackson Lyon (2-for-3, 2 R) and Liam Critchett (2-for-3, BB) added multi-hit games.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan Davitt earned his fourth win of the summer with 4.0 innings of four-hit, three run baseball. The righthander rebounded incredibly well from a three-spot in the first, striking out two and walking just one. Decker Stedman tossed a three-up, three-down fifth to finish things out prior to the rain delay.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks are idle on Monday and Tuesday before returning to action at home with a 6:35 p.m. CST start against the Eau Claire Express on Wednesday, August 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Waterloo Bucks (40-23, 17-12) earned win No. 40 of their 2021 season with a 10-3 sweep-clinching game two win  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10457,"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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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