LOUISVILLE, Ky. — He had to battle to get it, but Bryant’s Travis Wood picked a win in the Louisville Bats’ 7-6 victory over the Indianapolis Indians Monday night.
Wood, now 3-1 with a 2.93 earned run average for the Class AAA Bats, improved to 12-4 overall this season by going six innings. He surrendered three runs, all earned, on seven hits, walked two and struck out two. A trio of Louisville relievers finished up with Logan Ondrusek closing the game out for his sixth save.[more]
Louisville trailed 3-2 through four innings but a three-run fifth gave the Bats the lead for good. Two more scored in the seventh which proved to be just enough to hold on despite Indianapolis' uprisings in the final two innings.
After pitching around a lead-off single in the first, Wood surrendered a double to Tagg Bozied to start the second. With one out, Erik Kratz lined a home run to left center to make it 2-0. The Indians put together three more hits in the inning but had a runner thrown out trying to steal then stranded the other two when Wood fielded a tap back to the mound and threw out Pedro Lopez to end the inning.
Louisville tied it in the bottom of the inning on a two-run double by Chris Valaika. But a triple, a walk and a doubleplay produced another run for Indianapolis in the top of the third.
That twin-killing started a stretch in which Wood settled in and retired 11 of the next 13 batters, pitching around an error in the fifth and a two-out walk in the sixth as he finished his stint on the mound.
Louisville's game-turning fifth featured a solo homer by Luis Bolivar and a two-run shot by Juan Francisco, both after two were out.
