Mike Couzens has been named manager of broadcasting and media relations, the Fort Wayne TinCaps announced today.TinCaps fall hard on the road to Loons
The Great Lakes Loons used three big innings to help pound out an 11-6 win over the TinCaps on Sunday in Midland, Mich.
The Loons (28-7 second half, 71-33 overall), scored three runs in the second, five in the fifth and three more in the sixth.
Great Lakes had six extra-base hits and five RBI from Bryant Hernandez, who had just seven RBI this year. Hernandez capped the three-run second with a triple to right-center. The TinCaps (19-16, 55-50) came back in the third when Edinson Rincon hit a two-run homer and tied it at 3 in the fifth on Nate Freiman’s sacrifice fly.
Great Lakes broke the game open in the fifth with two outs. J.T. Wise doubled to make it 4-3. Hernandez hit a three-run double, and Nick Buss had an RBI single to push the Loons’ lead to 8-3.
Back-to-back RBI singles by the TinCaps’ Dean Anna and Daniel Meeley in the sixth cut the margin to 8-5.
The Loons’ Brian Cavazos-Galvez hit a two-run homer in the sixth, and then Brian Ruggiano singled home another run, making it an 11-5.
The TinCaps’ final run scored on Wande Olabisi’s RBI fielder’s choice in the seventh.
Reliever Jon Berger (3-1) took the loss after giving up five runs and five hits in two innings.
