Kinston Indians Walloped by the Winston-Salem Warthogs 10-2, Niuman Romero Extends Hitting Streak to 20 Games

MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com – Carolina League Player of the Week Niuman Romero extended his Carolina League-leading hit streak to 20 games, but the Kinston Indians dropped their second game in a row, 10-2 to Winston-Salem.  The K-Tribe and Warthogs end up splitting their four-game series.

Winston-Salem's bats were awake early as the Warthogs scored multiple runs in the first inning for the second straight day, plating three off of K-Tribe starter Sung-Wei Tseng.

After another Warthogs run in the third, the K-Tribe bats responded to load the bases with one out in the third inning. Nick Weglarz hit an RBI single driving in Brian Juhl for the first Kinston run, but a double play would end
the inning and get the Warthogs out of trouble. Jason Denham hit his second home run of the series in the seventh inning, a solo shot to cut the lead to 4-2, but the Warthogs put the game out of reach with six runs in the ninth
inning.

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Tseng gave up three runs in three innings, and the K-Tribe bullpen provided five scoreless innings of relief. Brendan Donnelly made a Major League rehab appearance throwing a scoreless fourth inning. Matt Meyer threw two scoreless innings of work, his longest outing of the season. Neil Wagner threw a scoreless seventh and eighth, before giving up four runs in the ninth.

The Indians have Wednesday off, but open up a three-game set on Thursday against the Frederick Keys at Historic Grainger Stadium. Kinston will have a Thirsty Thursday matchup, fireworks on Friday night, and Grady Sizemore
T-shirt night on Saturday evening. All three games start at 7:00 PM, with Kinston just one game out of first place for the final playoff spot in the Carolina League Southern Division. Hector Rondon (7-4) will make his first
start Thursday night since coming back from his scoreless inning in the MLB Futures Game at Yankee Stadium Sunday.

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