[NEWARKCATHOLICFAN]

Columbus Clippers (Indians) 6 Indianapolis Indians) (Pirates) 5

Clippers (44-40)won again lat night and did so on TV again.
This one had a lot more offense then the night before, as the scores shows.

Columbus logged in early with three runs in the bottom of the first.
After singles by Michael Martinez and Tyler Naquin 37 year old catcher Erik Kratz homers (12) to put the good guys u[ 3-0.

First place Indianapolis struck back with a single run in the top of the fourth.
Jarrett Grube left the game because of an injury, so the Clippers were forced to go the the bullpen and bring in Cole Sulser.
Danny Ortiz doubled (15) to greet Sulser.
Jordan Luplow plated him with a RBI single.

Columbus answered in the bottom half of the fourth, with a single run of their own.
Daniel Robertson singles, move to second on a ground out. He then swiped third base and scored on a Ronny Rodriguez ground out, to make it A 4-1 game.

The Indians would score another single run in the sixth.
Jordan Luplow (2) blasted a solo home run and we had a 4-2 game.

The Clippers struck back in the bottom of the inning, with what turned out to be two huge runs.
Giovanny Urshela walked and then came around two score on a long home run by,Ronny Rodriguez (7) Ronnie Rod, as he is called by the announcers is now hitting .273 is making it hard for Cleveland not to start to take notice of him.

Heading to the ninth, Columbus held the 6-2 lead and the game looked well in hand. But when you 18-20 at home, things never seems to go as one might think it will.

Eric Wood walked to open things up.
With one out Eury Perez walked to bring up Starling Marte. All he did was blast his first long ball of the season, at this level and the game was 6-5.
Tyler Olson came in and got the next two batters to close this one out.

Kyle Crockett (W, 2-2)
Drew Hutchison (L, 4-4)
Tyler Olson (S, 2)