Record Crowd Turns Out To See Great Lakes Loons Lose to The Lansing Lugnits 2-1

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MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com – Once again, the Great Lakes Loons set a new Dow Diamond attendance record. And once again, the Loons fall to the Lansing Lugnuts.

In front of a record 5,792 fans the Loons fell to the Lugnuts by a score of 2-1 on Saturday. The crowd was 46 fans more than the previous record crowd set Friday night. The Loons have lost eight of their last nine games and have led only five innings of the 82 innings they’ve played in the second half of Midwest League action.

The Lugnuts opened the scoring when designated hitter Jonathan Jaspe hit a bouncing ball over a drawn in infield for an RBI-single.

Following a Matt Berezay walk, the Loons responded when Eduardo Perez laced an RBI-triple to the right-center field gap to tie the score at one.

In the fifth, the Lugnuts scored the go-ahead run when Matt Lane’s liner to right field allowing Chris Emanuele to score to make it 2-1.

The Loons couldn’t capitalize on a scoring opportunity in the eighth inning. With runners on first and third, Trayvon Robinson lined a ball down the third base line that was ruled foul by home plate umpire Jon Saphire. Later in the inning, Saphire ejected Scott Van Slyke for arguing multiple check swings in his at bat.

Nate Starner (6-7) started for the Lugnuts and pitched five very impressive innings allowing only one run and struck out eight.

Arismendy Castillo (2-5) went five innings allowing both Lugnut runs while walking four and striking out six. Matt Gomez de Segura and Miguel Ramirez combined to pitch four innings of relief for the Loons in the loss.

The Loons fall to 1-8 in the second half of play in the Midwest League season. The Lugnuts improve to 5-5.