A fresh day gave the Muckdogs (13-15) a fresh start, which was just what they needed to erase a 3-0 deficit in the continuation of Friday night’s game to go on and beat the Valley Cats (9-16) 5-4.
On Friday, J.D. Martinez powered the Tri-City offense with a two-run homerun in the 1st. And then came the rain.
When play resumed Saturday night, Martinez added another on the board with a solo shot. The Valley Cats made it 4-0 in the 4th, but that would be all as Batavia battled back to get the win.
The offense started just four pitches into the bottom of the 4th as Xavier Scruggs put his fourth homerun ball over the left field wall. They added one more in the 5th when D’Marcus Ingram reached on a force out, stole second, and eventually came in to score on a base hit by Scruggs.
Batavia’s big inning came in the 6th as they scored three runs to go up 6-5 and put the game away for the win. It all started when Niko Vasquez reached on an error. Beau Riportella and Ryan Jackson had back-to-back singles to load the bases. Ingram then got a RBI on another force out as Vasquez came in to score. Devin Goodwin got the other two runners in on a double.
Justin Edwards (2-1, 3.44) started on Saturday to earn himself the win. He went four and two-thirds innings with two runs, four hits, one walk and five strikeouts. Joe Kelly followed him for the hold and LaCurtis Mayes finished it in the 9th for his third save on the season.
Scruggs went 2-for-3 in the game with a homerun and two RBI. Ryan Jackson also had two hits in the game, going 2-for-4.
