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Bats can't produce in Pennsylvania, 13-1.

Winker single puts Bats on the board. (Copyright Patrick L. Pfister 2017 All Rights Reserved)
May 27, 2017

LEHIGH VALLEY, PA: The Louisville Bats (16-31) were overpowered by the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (34-15) Saturday night as they fall13-1.The Bats started lefty Ismael Guillon (0-1, 9.72). Guillon went three and one third innings, allowing seven hits, six runs, one home run, and one walk. Guillon was also in the

LEHIGH VALLEY, PA: The Louisville Bats (16-31) were overpowered by the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (34-15) Saturday night as they fall13-1.
The Bats started lefty Ismael Guillon (0-1, 9.72). Guillon went three and one third innings, allowing seven hits, six runs, one home run, and one walk. Guillon was also in the batting order and went 0-1.
 On the mound first for the IronPigs was the right-hander Ben Lively (6-1, 2.40). Lively, the winning pitcher, pitched eight full innings, allowing only five hits and one run, walking two and striking out seven.
 The IronPigs took the early lead over the Bats with a Pedro Florimon home run in the bottom of the third. J.P Crawford would score Cameron Perkins on single to right field to end the innings, 2-0.
The IronPigs truly dominated in the fourth inning, it started with a Nick Williams line drive single to center, scoring Dylan Cozens and Rhys Hoskins, 4-0. A Florimon double would add to the lead, 5-0.
Extending their lead would be back to back home runs by Perkins and Crawfor and the IronPigs would end the fourth, 
8-0.
The IronPigs tacked on two more runs in the bottom of seventh. The Bats stopped a shutout situation in the top of the eighth; Beau Amaral singles on a line drive and a Jesse Winker single would bring him in and put the Bats on the board for the first and last time.
The IronPigs would add on another set of back to back home runs in the bottom of the eighth, one by Taylor Featherston the other by Nick Williams, 13-1.
The Bats would head into ninth unable to produce any response and would lose, 13-1.
The Bats will take on the IronPigs in game three of the four game series tomorrow in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The first pitch is set for 6:35 P.M.