Toledo Mud Hens 12, Louisville Bats 4 (box)

Lael Lockhart ran into trouble at the end of his 4.2 innings on Friday night, but the Toledo Mud Hens did enough scoring early on to ensure a comfortable, 12-4, win.

Louisville struck first in the top of the second, scoring on a Ryan Vilade double. Lockhart didn’t have a ton of command, and things could have been a lot worse in this inning. The scoring runner reached on a 106-mph single off the left field wall, and Vilade got caught trying to stretch out a triple.

Toledo responded almost immediately. Jace Jung led off the bottom of the inning with an infield single — Vilade made a nice diving play to stop the ball in the dirt, but he threw it away as the pitcher made it to first at the same time as Jung. Gage Workman extended his hit streak to

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