Dayton Dragons Game Highlights and Box Score - A, Midwest League

MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - Dayton , Ohio — Matt Klinker tossed seven scoreless innings and Devin Mesoraco drilled his first Midwest League home run as the Dayton Dragons snapped a six game losing streak by defeating the Lansing Lugnuts 5-1 on Monday night. The Dragons win coupled with a loss by West Michigan moved the Dragons back into a tie for first place in the Eastern Division.

Klinker (3-2) allowed only three hits and walked no one while striking out six to earn the win.

The Dragons jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning. Jake Long singled to left to start the rally and Logan Parker was hit by a pitch. Mesoraco reached on an error to load the bases. After Kevyn Feiner popped to third, Keltavious Jones singled to left-center to drive in both Long and Parker to give the Dragons their first lead since Friday night. Justin Reed’s sacrifice fly brought in Mesoraco to make it 3-0.

Mesoraco drilled a one-out home run in the fourth, his first with the Dragons, to make it 4-0. The Dragons scored an unearned run in the seventh before Lansing tallied one in the ninth to close out the scoring.

The Dragons host the Lugnuts on Tuesday in the second game of the four game series at 7:00 p.m. Luis Montano (5-2) will start for Dayton.

Notes: The five runs produced by the Dragons marked ended a streak of nine straight games in which the club had scored three runs or less…Klinker and reliever Jeff Jeffords combined to strike out 11 Lansing batters without issuing a walk.

Lansing Lugnuts 1 (21-22) Dayton Dragons 5 (22-20)

AB R H RBI AB R H RBI

Jackson ss 4 0 0 0 REED cf 3 0 1 1

Ahrens 3b 4 0 1 1 CABRERA ss 4 0 1 0

Rodriguez dh 4 0 0 0 PHIPPS rf 3 0 0 0

Liuzza c 4 0 1 0 WARING 3b 4 0 0 0

Tolisano 2b 3 0 1 0 LONG c 4 1 1 0

Eiland cf 3 0 1 0 PARKER 1b 2 1 0 0

Mastroianni lf 3 0 0 0 MESORACO dh 4 2 1 1

McDade 1b 3 0 0 0 FEINER 2b 4 0 1 0

Sierra rf 3 1 1 0 JONES lf 3 1 1 2

Cheng p 0 0 0 0 KLINKER p 0 0 0 0

Collins p 0 0 0 0 JEFFORDS p 0 0 0 0

Crowell p 0 0 0 0

Totals...... 31 1 5 1 Totals...... 31 5 6 4

Score by innings: R H E

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Lansing Lugnuts 000 000 001 - 1 5 3

Dayton Dragons 030 100 10 - 5 6 0

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E - Ahrens(5); Liuzza(3); McDade(4). LOB - Lugnuts 3; Dragons 7. 2B -

Ahrens(8); Eiland(2). HR - MESORACO(1). SF - REED(1). SB - Eiland(2);

Sierra(4); REED 2(13); JONES(8).

IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF Fly Gnd

Cheng L 2-1 3.1 4 4 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 14 16 4 4

Collins 2.2 1 1 0 2 5 0 1 0 0 10 12 1 2

Crowell 2.0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 7 8 0 3

KLINKER W 3-2 7.0 3 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 23 23 4 10

JEFFORDS 2.0 2 1 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 8 8 0 1

HBP - by Cheng (PARKER). BK - Collins(1).

Strikeouts - Jackson 3; Liuzza 2; Eiland; Mastroianni 3; McDade 2; CABRERA

2; PHIPPS; WARING; PARKER 2; MESORACO; FEINER; JONES 2. Walks - PHIPPS;

PARKER; JONES.

Umpires - Home:Guyll, M 1st:Gary, J

Start: 7:00 Time: 2:16 Attendance: 8404

Collins faced 2 batters in the 7th.

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