Andrew Painter struggled for the second consecutive start, allowing six earned runs on 10 hits and three walks in 5 1/3 innings of Wednesday night’s 8-7 IronPigs’ walk-off victory over the Toledo Mud Hens.
Payton Henry’s two-out, bases-loaded single scored Gabriel Rincones with the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth for Lehigh Valley, which has won six games in a row to improve to 79-53 overall, 33-25 in the second half.
Painter gave up two home runs and threw only 12 of 28 first-pitch strikes. He threw 59 of 97 pitches for strikes.
The right-hander yielded 12 earned runs on 19 hits and six walks in his last two outings (11 1/3 combined innings). His season ERA is at 5.62.
Painter, who has a career-high 109 innings pitched, walked the first two batters of the game and gave up a run two batters later on a sacrifice fly. He settled down, getting nine outs on the next nine batters before giving up a solo home run to start the fourth. But he got a double-play grounder to escape further trouble.
He got the first two outs in the fifth before failing to field a dribbler running toward the first-base bag. Two singles and a walk yielded an unearned run and added 15 pitches to Painter’s total.
Toledo then got single, home run, double, single to chase Painter with one out in the sixth.
Roster moves
INF Christian Arroyo (left hand) was reinstated from the 7-day IL. He was 1 for 4 in his return to the lineup.
RHP Max Lazar was recalled by the Phillies after RHP Daniel Robert was put on the IL with a right forearm strain. Lazar had a win and two saves in his three appearances with the IronPigs after being sent down by the Phillies.
How they scored
Top 1: Parker Meadows and Hau-Yu Lee walked. Both moved up on a fly ball. Meadows scored on Jace Jung’s sacrifice fly. Mud Hens 1-0.
Bottom 1: Justin Crawford walked with one out and scored on Otto Kemp’s 16th home run of the season. Kemp has 67 RBIs in 71 games with Lehigh Valley. IronPigs 2-1
Bottom 3: Kemp singled and scored on Gabriel Rincones’ 18th homer of the year. IronPigs 4-1
Top 4: Akil Baddoo hit an opposite-field home run, his 15th of the year, to lead off. IronPigs 4-2
Bottom 4: Crawford reached on a fielder’s choice, took third on Kemp’s single and scored on Rincones’ grounder. IronPigs 5-2
Top 5: Meadows reached when Painter was unable to field his dribbler, took second on Hau-Yu Lee’s single and scored on Baddoo’s single. IronPigs 5-3
Top 6: Trei Cruz reached on an infield single with one out and scored on Gage Workman’s 11th home run of the year. Tomas Nido doubled and scored on Meadows’ single to chase Painter. Hau-Yu Lee doubled before Baddoo’s sacrifice fly to the wall in right. Mud Hens 7-5
Bottom 6: Rodolfo Castro’s 18th home run of the year to lead off matched Rincones for the team lead. Mud Hens 7-6
Bottom 7: Christian Arroyo reached on an infield single, took third on Donovan Walton’s single and scored on Oscar Mercado’s grounder. Tied 7-7
Bottom 9: Rincones walked with one out, took second on Donovan Walton’s two-out walk and third on Mercado’s walk. After a pitching change, Payton Henry singled to right on a 1-0 pitch to score Rincones with the game-winner. IronPigs 8-7
Up next
RHP Gabe Mosser (3-4, 5.66 ERA) vs. Toledo TBA in a 6:45 p.m. start from Coca-Cola Park. The Parkland graduate allowed a run on five hits with no walks and five strikeouts in six innings against Durham in his last start.
Senior writer Tom Housenick can be reached at thousenick@mcall.com
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