Daytona’s Two-Out Scoring Seals Victory

Wendell Rijo
Wendell Rijo
The Daytona Tortugas scored seven runs with two outs on Thursday, beating the Brevard County Manatees 10-0 in a rain-shortened, six-plus inning contest. It was the 20th loss in 21 games for the Manatees and they fell to 6-40 in the FSL North Division in the second half.

Daytona got on the board in the bottom of the third. Shed Long tripled against Manatees starter Cody Ponce, with two outs. Gavin LaValley singled him home and Aristides Aquino kept the inning going with a single of his own. Juan Duran capped a big inning for Daytona, with a 393-ft. blast, making it 4-0.

Blake Trahan’s RBI double in the fourth made it 5-0 and Reydel Medina’s RBI double in the fifth scored Aquino, who tripled one out earlier, giving the home squad a 6-0 lead.

Ponce (2-8) was done after giving up six earned runs on nine hits. Obviously, the big blow was the homer by Duran, but the silver lining for Ponce was the eight strikeouts and just one walk in his five innings. He threw 59 of 80 pitches for strikes.

Daytona (75-59, 39-26) picked up the final four runs in the bottom of the seventh, just as the rain picked up. Kender Villegas gave up a single to Long and LaValley grounded one to shortstop Wendell Rijo, who tried to make the throw to second to get the force and Trey York couldn’t corral it, putting runners at first and third.

Aquino then hit one to left field, that Brandon Diaz took a bad route to. He tried to correct, but the ball fell in, giving the Tortugas a 7-0 lead. One out later, Medina doubled home LaValley and Aquino. Chad Tromp followed with a single and the Tortugas opened up a 10-0 lead.

At that point, the skies opened up and they never got the tarp pulled. After waiting the required 30 minutes, the game was called. Daytona finished with an impressive 13 hits and got multi-hit games from Trahan, Long, Aquino and Medina.

Nolan Becker was making his first Florida State League start for the Tortugas and he pitched well over his four innings. He walked one and struck out two, while giving up only three hits. Brennan Bernardino (5-3) threw the final three innings, picking up the win.

Brevard County (38-96, 15-51) managed just six hits, with York and Rijo getting the only extra-base hits, both doubles.

The I-95 series shifts to Space Coast Stadium Friday, as the teams will play the final three games of the season in Brevard. Friday’s first pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m





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