Indianapolis, IN
Powered by 11 singles, Indianapolis edges Saints 6-4
The Indianapolis Indians didn’t need to use the long ball on Thursday night, instead producing 14 hits — 11 of them singles — in a 6-4 win over the St. Paul Saints at Victory Field.
Ten of the hits and eight of the singles came against Saints starting pitcher Aaron Rozek, who allowed five runs over 4 2/3 innings. Rozek, a Burnsville native, was making his fifth start of the season for the Saints after going 5-4 with a 2.19 earned-run average at Double-A Wichita. He struck out six and walked two.
Alika Williams led off the first against Rozek with a double and scored on a single by Nick Yorke that was deflected by third baseman Diego A. Castillo.
Castillo homered in the second inning and the Saints added a run on Wynton Bernard’s sacrifice fly.
It was more death by a thousand cuts in the third inning as the Indians began the inning with four straight singles to score two runs and added a two-out, run-scoring single by Billy McKinney to take a 4-2 lead.
DaShawn Keirsey Jr. led off the fifth with a double and came home on a one-out double by Yunior Severino to make it 4-3.
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