Spain belts two homers, drives in four as Wichita evens series<\/p>\n
WICHITA, Kan. \u2014 The Wichita Wind Surge (18-23) slugged their way to a 9-3 win over the Corpus Christi Hooks (21-20) in game two of a six-game series Wednesday night at Equity Bank Park, powered by a 10-hit attack that included three home runs and a multi-homer performance from Garrett Spain.<\/p>\n
Spain paced the offense, leaving the yard twice and driving in four runs. Brandon Winokur also launched a three-run homer in the second inning, his fifth of the season. Marek Houston and Caden Kendle each recorded two hits as Wichita reached double-digit hits for the 25th time this season.<\/p>\n
On the mound, Ty Langenberg turned in a stellar start, allowing just one hit over four shutout innings while striking out three. The Wichita pitching staff struck out 12 batters overall, marking its 46th double-digit strikeout game of the season. Spencer Bengard and Jaylen Nowlin also recorded scoreless relief appearances in the win.<\/p>\n
Langenberg started on the mound for the Wind Surge, facing the minimum and striking out one in a scoreless first inning. Wichita opened the scoring in the bottom half when Spain blasted a three-run homer into the Boot Barn Home Run Deck in right field. The Surge led 3-0 after one.<\/p>\n
The Wind Surge added on in the second, scoring one on an RBI single from Houston before Winokur launched a three-run homer to left field, his fifth long ball of the season, to make it 7-0.<\/p>\n
Wichita continued the scoring in the third, using a single and a walk before a fielder’s choice advanced the runners and a sacrifice fly brought home another run.<\/p>\n
Langenberg finished his night after four innings, allowing just one hit over four shutout frames while striking out three.<\/p>\n
The Hooks cut into the deficit in the fifth, lifting a two-run homer over the left-center field wall to make it 8-2.<\/p>\n
Wichita answered in the bottom half when Spain crushed his second home run of the game and 20th of the season. The blast marked his second multi-homer game of the year and extended the Wind Surge lead to 9-2.<\/p>\n
The Wichita pitching staff held Corpus Christi to just one additional run the rest of the way to secure the 9-3 victory.<\/p>\n
4 \u2014 Garrett Spain has hit four home runs over his last four games, including two tonight.<\/p>\n
The Wind Surge continue their six-game series against the Corpus Christi Hooks with game three Thursday at Equity Bank Park. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. The game can be heard on 92.3 FM ESPN Wichita and at windsurge.com, and viewed on MiLB.TV and Bally Sports Live.<\/p>\n
Photo: Garrett Spain \u2014 Ed Bailey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain belts two homers, drives in four as Wichita evens series WICHITA, Kan. \u2014 The Wichita Wind Surge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[542,14237,14236,17],"class_list":["post-70005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}