Ponies Hit Six Homers to Power Past Ducks 

Akron, OH – The Binghamton Rumble Ponies (14-17, 49-46) hit six home runs in their 8-2 win over the Akron RubberDucks (9-21, 43-56) Saturday Night at Canal Park. Patrick Mazeika hit two of them with his second coming as part of back-to-back-to-back home runs in the fifth. Quinn Brodey also hit his first homer in a Binghamton uniform and Luis Carpio hit his second with the Ponies. 

Mazeika hit his first homer of the game into the right-centerfield bullpen in the first to put the Ponies on the board. Then with Binghamton up 2-0 in the fifth, Brodey hit a blast over the centerfield wall. Two batters later, Jason Krizan rocketed a solo shot off the batters-eye in centerfield, followed by Mazeika’s second of the game to right, and capped off by a solo homer into the right-field seats by David Thompson. The four solo homers in the inning made it 6-0 Ponies. 

After Akron scored two in the bottom of the sixth, the Ponies led 6-2 into the ninth. Luis Carpio then drilled a two-run homer over the left-field wall for the Ponies sixth homer of the night. 

LHP Kevin Smith (1-0) got the win in his double-a debut allowing three hits, two runs, and walking four over five and two thirds innings. Ryder Ryan pitched two and a third scoreless frames and Matt Blackham closed the game out in the ninth. 

Krizan finished 3-5 and has hit two homers in the series (now with 9 total). Thompson has three homers in as many games (now five on the year), and the Ponies have hit 9 homers in the first three games in Akron. 

The Rumble Ponies look to take three of four with the series finale Sunday afternoon. First pitch from Canal Park is at 2:05PM on Newsradio 1290 WNBF and the Binghamton Rumble Ponies channel on TuneIn. The Horizons Federal Credit Union pregame show gets underway at 1:50PM. 

POSTGAME NOTES: The Ponies outhit the RubberDucks 14-3…Mazeika now has 51 RBI on the year…Akron, who led the Eastern League in homers coming into the game, has not hit a home run in the series.