The Hawaii Tropics host the Vancouver Mounties for a three game series at Diamond Head.
Game 1- SP Stephen Taub was in control of this game but ran out of gas after 6 2/3 innings. Taub allowed just a single run on 4 hits and struck out 7 batters. He improved t0 9-6 with a 4.94 ERA. That win was in question as RP Felipe Lopez came close to coughing up the lead. Lopez allowed 3 runs in 2 hits and a walk in just 1/3 of an inning of work. RP Luis Santiago took the ball from Lopez and shut down the mounties for 1 2/3 innings. RP Adrian Garcia came on to get the last out of the game for his first save of the season.
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Taub beats the Mounties
3B Leonard Jones was 1 fr 3 with a two run homer in the fourth inning.
1B Manuel Aguilar, Jr. was 1 for 4 with a solo homer in the second inning.
Backup C Steffen Peterson was 2 for 3 with a double and a run scored.
Hawaii wind 5-4.
Game 2- The Tropics Offense has been able to take advantage of error and walks recently. They did it again in this game as they took 13 hits, 5 walks and 2 errors and scored 16 runs. Every starting fielder recorded a hit but Leonard Jones. Jones was 0 for 4 with a walk and a run scored. Jones said after the game, “It looks like I’m buying.”
2B Jack “Junkyard” Nichols was 2 for 5 with a three run homer, two runs scored and four RBI.
CF Doeke Soethout was 3 for 4 with a double, two homers, four runs, five RBI and a stolen base.
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Soethout with the big night
RF Mike Campbell was 2 for 5 with a solo homer, three runs and an RBI.
In a rare start, P Maxime Manceau went 7 innings, surrendered just a single run on five hit s and a walk while striking out a batter. He upped his record to 4-2 with a 4.30 ERA.
Hawaii wins 16-1.
Game 3- Michael Campbell hits a first inning three run homer and the Tropics never look back as Hawaii sweeps the series. Campbell was 2 for 4 with three RBI on the day along with two runs scored.
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SP Jesus Gonzalez took care of business allowing one run on seven hits, walked no one and struck out seven batters. He improves to 8-9 on the season with a 4.15 ERA.
Hawaii wins 5-1 and wins the series 3-0.
The Des Moines Kernels pay a visit to Diamond Head for a two games series with the Tropics.
Game 1- Alaric Wullenweber was roughed up for 5 runs in the fifth inning and Kernels Starter Ernesto Lopez cooled off the hot bats of the Tropics. Lopez had a line of 8 IP, 2 runs, 4 hits, 2 walks and 7 Ks.
Wullenweber was cruising with just a hit allowed and six strikeout through four innings. Then after a strikeout in the fifth the wheels came off and soon he was out of the game. Alaric finished with 4 2/3 IP, 5 runs, 5 hits, a walk, and 7 Ks. He falls to 10-8 with a 4.02 ERA.
LF Bastiao Fardos was 1 for 3 with a solo homer in the first inning, a walk, 2 runs scored and an RBI.
Des Moines wins 5-2.
Game 2- The Kernels turn up the heat on the Tropics and pop three homers in a dismantling of the Hawaii Tropics at Diamond Head.
2B John Nichols was 2 for 4 with a solo homer, a run and two RBI.
DH Ernest McBride has cooled off a bit but was 2 for 3 this game with a solo homer.
SP Zak Johnson pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed 5 runs (3 earned) on 9 hits a walk and a strikeout. He is now 9-8 with a 4.25 ERA this season.
Des Moines wins 10-3 and sweeps the series 2-0.
