Lugnuts get 2 in 9th, rare win over ’Caps

This time it was Lansing’s turn to come from behind.

One day after the TinCaps spotted the Lansing Lugnuts a 2-0 lead and then roared back to beat them for the seventh straight time, Lansing erased its own 2-0 deficit, raking three TinCaps pitchers for 10 hits in a 5-3 win Sunday afternoon at Lansing, Mich.

Sean Ochinko’s walk-off home run with two out in the ninth and one aboard handed the Lugnuts (25-24 second half, 61-57 overall) their first win over the TinCaps since May 7.

Matt Fields, Scott Gracey and Steve Turnbull combined on a five-hitter for Lansing, with Turnbull getting the win on two innings of one-hit relief in the eighth and ninth innings.

The TinCaps (30-19, 66-53) got their two-run lead in the third, when Dean Anna lashed a two-out single to right to drive in a run, and Everett Williams came home as well when the ball got away from Lansing right fielder Michael Crouse. In the fifth, Anna chased Griffin Benedict home with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.

The good times ended in the seventh, when Brad Glenn’s two-out, two-run double tied it at 3. It stayed knotted until Justin Jackson cracked a single with two gone in the ninth, setting up Ochinko’s heroics.