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Naturals Shutout Travs Behind Avila Gem

RH Luinder Avila registered a quality start in the 3-0 shutout win over the Travelers on May 17, 2024. (David McLelland)
By Naturals PR Department
May 18, 2024

Luinder Avila tossed his first quality start of the season, lifting the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (17-16) to a 3-0 shutout win over the Arkansas Travelers (20-16) on Friday night at Dickey-Stephens Park. In the top of the second, the Naturals scored the first run of the game against Travelers starter

Luinder Avila tossed his first quality start of the season, lifting the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (17-16) to a 3-0 shutout win over the Arkansas Travelers (20-16) on Friday night at Dickey-Stephens Park.

In the top of the second, the Naturals scored the first run of the game against Travelers starter Logan Evans. Dillan Shrum and Diego Hernandez worked back-to-back walks, and moved up into third and second on a sacrifice bunt by *Joe Gray Jr. Leonel Valera* lined a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Shrum to make it 1-0.

Shrum extended the lead off Evans in the top of the sixth with a solo homer, making it a 2-0 ballgame.

In the top of the the ninth, Hernandez doubled and came around to score on a single by Javier Vaz to put Northwest Arkansas up 3-0. Anderson Paulino closed it down in the ninth, securing the shutout win.

Avila (2-3) recorded the win, letting up a hit, walking two, and striking out one over 6.0 scoreless innings. Evans (3-2) took the loss, allowing two runs on four hits, two walks, and six strikeouts over 5.2 frames. Paulino (5) notched the save, letting up a hit and striking out two in a shutdown ninth.

The Naturals and Travelers play the penultimate of a six-game series on Saturday with first pitch set for 6:05 PM CT. Northwest Arkansas is set to start RHP Will Fleming (0-0, 0.00), while Arkansas will go with RHP Jimmy Joyce (0-1, 21.60).