RubberDucks 9, Fisher Cats 2
- Updated: May 25, 2022
AKRON, Ohio – The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (17-22) lost, 9-2, to the Akron RubberDucks (Cleveland Guardians, 24-16) on Tuesday afternoon. Akron remains in first place in the Southwest Division of the Eastern League, while New Hampshire fell to five games below .500 for the second time this season.
Tanner Morris extended his hit streak to nine games with a single in the first inning. He finished 2-for-4 with walk and a run scored. Morris leads the team in batting average (.319), on-base percentage (.449), walks (26) and multi-hit games (11). He has seven multi-hit games in the month of May and has hit safely in every game since May 12.
Morris scored on a Spencer Horwitz sacrifice fly in the third inning, and Luis De Los Santos added the Fisher Cats’ second run in the eighth with a leadoff solo homer to left field. The blast was De Los Santos’ second home run of the season.
The Fisher Cats left eight runners stranded on base across the first five innings, though, as Akron took a 7-1 lead at the end of the fifth. Nick Fraze (L, 1-4) was tagged for seven runs across 4.1 innings of work. He struck out three.
The RubberDucks scored three in the first and four in the fifth, with five of those seven runs coming on homers from Will Brennan and George Valera. Brennan leads the Eastern League in RBIs with 39. Valera finished 2-for-5 with a double, homer, three runs scored and four RBIs.
Akron has won 13 of their last 16 games.
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