Tacos complete four-game sweep of Baby Cakes in front of second-largest home crowd of season

The Fresno Tacos (63-43) completed a four-game sweep of the the New Orleans Baby Cakes (40-65) with a 4-2 win on Friday night at Chukchansi Park during the seventh annual Taco Truck Throwdown in front of 12,382 fans. It's the second-largest crowd of the season behind only the 4^th of July, while it was the fifth five-digit home crowd of 2017.
Fresno hit three home runs to take over the lead in all of professional baseball with 168, surpassing their parent club, the Houston Astros, who hit two dingers on Friday for 167 on the season. Despite a Reno win, Fresno remains alone in first place in the Pacific North Division.
Tacos starter Mike Hauschild (5-1) held the Baby Cakes to just one hit through the first six innings. Steve Lombardozzi had the one base hit in the opening frame and then scored on a wild pitch. Despite allowing the one run, Hauschild only walked one batter while he struck out six for the win in his fourth quality start of the season. Fresno is now 11-2 with Hauschild on the mound.
The Tacos tied the contest 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth when A.J. Reed crushed his team-leading 22^nd home run of the season to left center. Going 3-for-4 on the night, Reed extended his career-high Triple-A hit streak to 11 games. He is batting .355 (22-for-62) in his last 16 games with eight homers and 25 RBI.
Then, with two outs in the inning, Jack Mayfield drilled his fourth Fresno homer of the season. The solo shot to left put the Tacos ahead 2-1. It was Mayfield's third home run in four games to give him 18 long balls on the season when combined with his total from Double-A Corpus Christi. Since returning to Fresno on July 24, Mayfield is 5-for-16 with three home runs and six RBI.
Reed notched his second RBI of the night in the bottom of the seventh when he singled up the middle to score Tony Kemp (single) to increase the Tacos' lead to 3-1. Max Stassi made it 4-1 when he hit a bomb to left in the eighth. The solo shot was his 12^th of the season.
Fresno relievers continued to hold New Orleans to just one hit until the eighth. Kevin Comer allowed one hit in a scoreless inning and a third of relief while Jordan Jankowski allowed the final run on two hits in the ninth. Jankowski struck out one in the final frame for his 10^th save of the season.
The Baby Cakes cut the Tacos' lead to a 4-2 final when Moisés Sierra led off the ninth with a solo shot to center, his 11^th home run of the season. New Orleans starter Scott Copeland (7-10) tossed six innings and allowed two runs on five hits and three walks with five strikeouts in the loss.
Fresno next travels to Omaha for a four-game series against the Storm Chasers, part of an eight-game road trip. The series opener will be on Saturday at 5:05 PT. Probable starters are RHP Rogelio Armenteros (4-0, 3.57) for Fresno and RHP Andres Machado (0-0, 9.00) for Omaha.