Toledo Mud Hens Defeat Indianapolis Indians 7-6 in Eleven Innings - AAA, IL

MLN - THE RAW FEED - www.mlntherawfeed.com – TOLEDO, Ohio -- First baseman Jeff Larish whacked an RBI triple with no outs in the bottom of the 11th to give Toledo a 7-6 victory over Indianapolis in front of 8,122 Saturday evening at Fifth Third Field.

The Mud Hens improve to 14-8 overall and 7-5 at home, while the Indians fall to 13-10 on the season and 5-6 on the road.  Toledo improves to 21-6 against Indianapolis in games at Fifth Third Field over the past four years.

Larish’s game-winning hit followed a lead-off walk by 3B Mike Hessman in the home half of the 11th.

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Mud Hens RHP Francis Beltran (1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB) needed just 16 pitches to earn the win, while Indians RHP Jonah Bayliss (2 BF, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB) was pinned with the loss after just six pitches.

Beltran improves to 1-1 on the season, while Bayliss falls to 0-1.  A total of 366 pitches were thrown by 10 hurlers in the four-hour and one-minute affair.

DH Erick Almonte (2-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBI), SS Derek Wathan (3-for-5, 2 RBI) and Larish (2-for-4, 1 RBI) had more than one base knock for Toledo, while DH Craig Wilson (3-for-5, 3 R, 1 RBI), 2B Matt Kata (2-for-5, 2 RBI) and 3B Neil Walker (2-for-6) turned in multi-hit efforts for Indianapolis.

Tribe CF Andrew McCutchen, who went 0-for-3, saw his career-best 13-game hitting streak come to an end.

The clubs combined for 10 extra-base hits on the evening, including four home runs.  Wilson, C Raul Chavez and 1B Adam Boeve gave the Indians three roundtrippers in a game for the first time in 2008, while Almonte drilled a long ball for the Mud Hens.

The game feature four ties and four lead changes.  Indianapolis plated one run in the second, two in the fourth, two in the sixth and one in the seventh.  Toledo responded with one score in the first, one in the second, three in the fourth, one in the seventh and one in its final at-bat.

Kata’s RBI single and Chavez’s second blast of the season highlighted the Tribe’s two-run fourth, while Boeve’s first dinger of the campaign sparked the visitor’s sixth.

Wathan’s two-run double and Hessman’s sacrifice fly gave the home team its most productive frame of the night in the fourth.

The starting pitchers -- Indianapolis RHP Luis Munoz (4.0 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 2 SO) or Toledo RHP Yorman Bazardo (4.0 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 SO) -- did not figure in the decision.

The Indians fall to 6-2 in one-affairs this season, with both setbacks coming in 11 innings.

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