The Capitales de Québec wasted an inspired start to the game and fell 11-5 to the New Jersey Jackals on Tuesday at Yogi Berra Stadium.
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The “Caps”, who are having a hard time lately, certainly thought they were heading for a second victory in their last seven games before the start of the seventh inning, with a 5-2 lead. The hosts had however, another plan in mind.
Dalton Combs started the ball rolling with a two-run double, chasing Carlos Sano (1-2) out of the game. Called in as reinforcements, Ian Codina couldn’t stifle the threat, and a sacrifice fly from Justin Wylie and a single from Jason Agresti allowed the Jackals to take the lead.
Sano also allowed five earned runs and seven hits in six innings of work, passing only three opposing batters in the mitt.
The manager of the Old Capital team, Patrick Scalabrini, then decided to send the artillerymen Joel Huertas and Frank Moscatiello to try to curb the momentum of the Jackals… a bet that did not pay off.
Agresti hit a two-run double in the eighth inning, then Alfredo Marte came on to put the icing on the cake by netting a three-run long ball moments later, nailing the coffin for the Capitals.
Jackals starter Jorge Tavares allowed five runs – four earned – in seven innings of work, but it was reliever Thomas Bruss (1-0) who scored the win.
Jonathan Lacroix had started hostilities in the best way for the visitors in the first inning, hitting a three-run homer. Josh McAdams and Marc-Antoine Lebreux drove in the other losers’ runs with a single apiece.
The Capitals will try to end a four-game losing streak – their longest of the season – on Wednesday in the second game of this three-game series against the Jackals.