The Louisville Bats lost 7-2. Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n Game Notes<\/p>\n For the third day in a row the Iowa Cubs beat up the Bats starting pitcher as they scored five runs in the 2nd inning to take a lead and never looked back.<\/p>\n Top Pitch Velocity:\u00a0Luis Mey \u2013 99.4 MPH (foul)<\/p>\n Top Exit Velocity:\u00a0Christian Encarnacion-Strand \u2013 109.5 MPH (home run)<\/p>\n Furthest Hit Baseball:\u00a0Christian Encarnacion-Strand \u2013 399 feet (home run)<\/p>\n The Chattanooga Lookouts won 8-6. Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n Game Notes<\/p>\n The game began with Carlos Jorge hitting a triple to the wall on the first pitch. Two pitches later Leo Balcazar hit a 2-run home run. Columbus then scored the next six runs of the game. The Lookouts picked up two runs in the 8th to make it 6-4. Then came the 9th inning\u00a0 when Chattanooga loaded the bases with just one out and Michael Trautwein unloaded them with an opposite field grand slam to put the Lookouts in front for good. He\u2019s hit 20 home runs in his career and this was his first grand slam.<\/p>\n Leo Balcazar hit nine home runs with Dayton in the first half last season. He only hit three with Chattanooga after joining them at the middle of July and playing in 51 games with them. His home run in the 1st inning was an opposite field line drive over the wall in right-center.<\/p>\n Last year Carlos Jorge only had three hits in the first eight games in which he had an at-bat, going 3-20 to being the year in 2025 with Dayton. He got three hits on opening night this year.<\/p>\n Austin Hendrick had three hits in three games last year with Chattanooga. He homered twice in each of those games. In Friday\u2019s season opener he had three hits but he didn\u2019t homer. New year, new trend.<\/p>\n The Dayton Dragons lost 5-1. Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n Game Notes<\/p>\n Nestor Lorant struck out seven batters to open up his season. In 24 games with Dayton last season he only had seven more more strikeouts twice. His season high was nine and that also took place against Fort Wayne and he also threw 4.1 innings in that game. The Dragons lost that game, too.<\/p>\n The Dragons pitching staff had 10 groundouts and just one flyout.<\/p>\n
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