Burn, baby, burn!!

After a night of horrors on the bus trip to Greensboro, the Lakewood BlueClaws bats were still "on fire" when they arrived at the ballpark. Dominic Brown led off the game with a home run and Lakewood never looked back, scoring 6 in the 1st, and 6 more in the 2nd, en route to a 14-5 win over the Grasshoppers. 9 different BlueClaws collected hits, with 8 of them getting 2 apiece. Brown and Derrick Mitchell drove in 3 runs each and Freddy Galvis, Travis Mattair and Mike Durant added 2 RBI each as Lakewood notched it's highest run total of the season. Chance Chapman was the beneficiary of the outburst, throwing 6 innings to improve to 7-5, 3.05 on the season. The BlueClaws are now 27-15 in the second half (65-47 overall) , and remain 2 games behind the West Virginia Power, who came from down 8-1 to defeat Delmarva 12-8, with 28 games remaining in the season. Lakewood sends Vance Worley (1-0, 2.10) to the mound a 5:00 PM today in game 2 of the 4 game set in Greensboro.