HAGERSTOWN, MD - The BlueClaws scored four times in the eighth inning, taking the lead on a Carlos Duran RBI single, and then held off a Hagerstown rally in topping the Suns 6-5 on Monday night at Municipal Stadium.

The BlueClaws four-run eighth inning started with a one-out single by Josh Tobias. With two outs, Damek Tomscha homered, his third of the year, to bring Lakewood within 4-3. Deivi Grullon doubled and Jan Hernandez entered as a pinch runner. Brendon Hayden doubled him in to tie the game, and Carlos Duran singled home Hayden to give the BlueClaws their first lead of the game.

All four runs in the eighth were charged to Mick Van Vossen, who fell to 1-2.

In the bottom of the ninth, Zach Morris allowed an RBI single to Ian Sagdal to make it a 6-5 game, but with runners on first and second, struck out Randy Encarnacion to end the game and pick up his third save of the year, all in the last five games.

The win for the BlueClaws (3-2/32-42) is their first win in Hagerstown (4-1/47-28), snapping a six-game losing streak at Municipal Stadium. It was just the third game this year that the BlueClaws won in which they trailed entering the eighth inning.

Josh Tobias had four hits for Lakewood and finished a home run shy of the cycle, singling in his last at bat. Wilson Garcia, Deivi Grullon, Brendon Hayden, and Carlos Duran all had two hits for the BlueClaws in the win.

Sutter McLoughlin (1-1), who threw two scoreless innings in relief, earned his first win as a BlueClaw.

Hagerstown opened the scoring with two runs in the third inning on a two-run home run by Telmito Agustin, his fourth home run of the season. He drove in Ian Sagdal, who had tripled to start the inning.

The BlueClaws got a run back in the fourth on an RBI single by Wilson Garcia but left runners at second and third to end the inning.

Then in the bottom of the fourth, Matthew Page's SAC fly made it 4-1 Suns. They added another run in the fifth when a throwing error on Emmanuel Marrero allowed Edwin Lora, who had doubled, to score from second when the BlueClaws threw behind him after a big turn around the bag, and threw it away, making it 4-1, though the lead would not last.

The series continues on Tuesday night at 7:05 pm. RHP Alberto Tirado (0-0) starts for Lakewood against RHP Jefry Rodriguez (6-2).

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