A pair of recently promoted pitchers shined bright in their Dow Diamond debut, and 8 of the 9 Loons batters had hits as they rolled to a 6-3 win over the Lake County (OH.) Captains (Cleveland Indians) tonight.
Crawford -a 19 year old Dodger free agent from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua- gave up 3-runs on 3-hits, 3-walks, while striking out 6 batters through 5-innings in his first home game for the Loons.
Kremer, who just arrived in Midland yesterday was lights out, allowing just 1 hit and 2-walks, while striking out 3 Lake County batters through 2 scoreless innings of relief.
Ibandel Isabel roped his second home run as a Loon to lead off the bottom of the second inning and
Logan Landon scored from first base on a
Darien Tubbs single to give Great Lakes an early 2-0 lead.
The Captains managed two runs in the top of the fourth, but Landon answered with a one out solo home run (7) in the bottom half of the inning to give the Loons a 3-2 lead.
Lake County tied the game with one run in the fifth, but
Erick Meza drove in
Omar Estevez from second base after the pair led off the bottom of the fifth with back to back doubles for a 4-3 Great Lakes lead.
Isabel and Landon were the big bats for the Loons tonight. Isabel was 3 for 5 including his home run, while Landon finished 3 for 4 with a home run, a walk, and 2-runs. Meza was 2 for 5 with an rbi and a run, and Estevez finished 2 for 5 with one run scored.
Luis DePaula (1-0, 2.08 ERA) got the save while striking out 5 Lake County batters through 2 scoreless innings.
With the win, the Loons (20-27 in the second half of the Midwest League standings) are now tied with the Captains (20-27) in their pursuit of the final eastern division playoff spot.
The two teams are 4.5 games back of the Lansing Lugnuts (Toronto Blue Jays) for the final MWL playoff spot.
The Loons will host Lake County for the final game of the series tomorrow in a 2:05 pm afternoon game at Dow Diamond.
Jason Marcoux
