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Lugnuts erupt in 8th to double up Loons, 10-5

May 25, 2021

LANSING, Mich. – Austin Beck broke an eighth-inning tie with an RBI double, Shane Selman followed with a two-run homer, and the Lansing Lugnuts (10-9) used a huge eighth inning to beat the Great Lakes Loons (8-11), 10-5, in front of a roaring crowd on Tuesday night at Jackson® Field™.

LANSING, Mich. – Austin Beck broke an eighth-inning tie with an RBI double, Shane Selman followed with a two-run homer, and the Lansing Lugnuts (10-9) used a huge eighth inning to beat the Great Lakes Loons (8-11), 10-5, in front of a roaring crowd on Tuesday night at Jackson® Field™.

It was the first of 12 home games in 13 days for the Lugnuts – and it looked a lot like the Nuts’ prior four games at Fort Wayne, a stretch in which the offense totaled 34 runs.

Loons catcher Ryan January homered in a three-run third inning against Lugnuts starter Rafael Kelly, putting the Lugnuts into an early hole, but the Nuts fought back to take a 5-3 lead with two runs in the bottom of third and a Max Schuemann three-run homer in the fourth.

Great Lakes shaved the lead to 5-4 in the fifth on a Ryan Ward RBI groundout off Kelly, and then tied the score at 5-5 in the top of the eighth on a two-out Leonel Valera home run off reliever Dalton Sawyer.

But the Lugnuts’ bats awoke in the bottom of the eighth against Great Lakes right-hander Jack Little. With one out, Patrick McColl shot a single to left field. Beck followed with a liner to left-center to bring in McColl, untying the score. That brought up Selman, who thumped his second home run of the year out to left-center to put the Lugnuts up 8-5.

Elvis Peralta, Jr., singled to left, Max Schuemann delivered him with an RBI double, and Michael Guldberg capped the scoring with an RBI infield single.

Aiden McIntyre wrapped things up with a scoreless ninth to give the Lugnuts their fourth win in the last five games.

The Loons whiffed 13 times against four Lugnuts pitchers: four strikeouts by Kelly in five innings, two by Michael Danielak in 1 1/3 scoreless innings, five by Sawyer in 1 2/3 innings and two by McIntyre.

Center fielder Guldberg increased his team-high on-base streak to 14 games, going 2-for-4 with an RBI single, an RBI double, a walk and a run scored. Shortstop Schuemann extended his own streak to 13 games, finishing 2-for-5 with a double, home run, two runs scored and four runs batted in.

The second game of the six-game series is a Dog Days of Summer on Wednesday with dogs welcome at the ballpark! Lansing starts lefty Brady Basso (2.53) against Loons right-hander José Martínez (1.35) at 7:05 p.m. To purchase tickets, please visit lansinglugnuts.com or call (517) 485-4500.

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