WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) —The Wichita Wind Surge put together another 6-1 win over the Springfield Cardinals at Riverfront Stadium. Wichita outhit Springfield 12-3 throughout the contest, with every man who came to the plate for the hosts recording a hit.
After a leadoff single and a hit and run put men on the corners for the Wind Surge in the bottom of the first, Ricardo Olivar pulled his first hit back in the lineup into left field to bring around Kala’i Rosario.
Cory Lewis retired the first eight batters he faced, the latter four all coming on strikeouts, in the orange and black Monrovians uniforms. He’d keep the Cardinals hitless through his first four and one-third innings of work and later strand the first runner to keep the 1-0 advantage halfway through the ballgame.
Jake Rucker pushed across two more runs for the Wichita on a single to left field in the home half of the fifth. After the knock, Rucker stands third in Wind Surge history in individual single-season hits at 116. Dalton Shuffield later left the yard on a three-run blast, his fourth of the season, into the Springfield bullpen in right-center to finish a fifth-inning five-spot for a 6-0 lead.