LAKEWOOD CRUISES TO 14-3 VICTORY IN FINALE

BlueClaws Record Season High 21 Hits

SALISBURY, Md. –The Lakewood BlueClaws scored six runs in the sixth and five more in the eighth, pulling away from the Delmarva Shorebirds for a 14-3 win at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium Monday.

Lakewood (28-23) blasted three home runs on the day and right-hander Julio Rodriguez (1-0) allowed three hits and a run in five innings for the win. The BlueClaws outhit Delmarva (22-30), 21-10, on their way to a second straight win of the series.

Five Lakewood players tallied two hits apiece led by catcher Sebastian Valle. Valle was 2-for-4 with a home run, four RBIs and two runs scored.

Michael Ohlman hit a home run for the Shorebirds. Ty Kelly was 2-for-4 with a pair of RBI singles for Delmarva.

Valle gave Lakewood a 2-0 lead in the second with a mammoth home run off the scoreboard in left-center field with one out. Jeremy Barnes led off with a double to right field and scored on Valle’s third homer on the season and second of the season.

Shorebirds’ catcher Ohlman hit a solo homer to left center to cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the fifth. The blast was Ohlman’s second of the year.

Lakewood sent nine men to the plate in the top of the sixth inning and scored six runs with the help of home runs by Leandro Castro and Domingo Santana to take an 8-1 edge and knock starter Kenny Moreland out of the game in favor of Jake Smith. Castro began the frame with a shot over the left-field fence to make it 3-1 before Santana stroked a two-run shot to cap the scoring in the inning with one out.

Ty Kelly singled up the middle with two outs in the seventh to score Mychal Givens and make it 8-2. Givens was hit by a pitch by reliever Jacob Diekman to get on base.

Three straight RBI hits in the eighth gave the BlueClaws five runs to put the game away.

Delmarva starter Kenny Moreland (0-2) took the loss, going five innings and surrendering six runs on nine hits and one walks. He struck out three.

The Shorebirds open a four-game set with Greensboro Grasshoppers Tuesday in Greensboro, N.C., at 7 p.m. Right-hander Bobby Bundy (0-2, 5.16) will start for Delmarva while lefty Jose Alverez (3-1, 3.86) goes for Greensboro.