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Fort Wayne manager Jose Valentin reflects on a four-game losing streak and his TinCaps' first four-game sweep at home since 2006. The team lost to division-leading South Bend 7-3 on Friday.Today 3:00 am

Notebook: South Bend 7, TinCaps 3

Fort Wayne dropped its fourth-straight game, a season high streak, against South Bend on Friday. The 7-3 loss by the TinCaps moved them 4 1/2 games out of first place in the Midwest League Eastern Division standings.Friday

South Bend gets four-game sweep of TinCaps

The TinCaps suffered their first four-game home sweep since 2006 with a 7-3 loss to South Bend on Friday at Parkview Field.Friday

Rymer Liriano went 4 for 5 with a home run and four RBI as the TinCaps topped West Michigan 13-7 Sunday.

The 13 runs are a season high.

Here are the highlights.

Key at-bat: Chris Tremblay singled to center with two outs in the third inning to bring home Chris Bisson. The single ended the TinCaps' 20-inning scoreless streak. It also sparked a four-run rally in the inning that keyed a comeback.

Key out: Keyvius Sampson got Dixon Machado to hit into an inning-ending double play in the top of the fourth. Fort Wayne scored five runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead for good. Sampson improved to 4-1, giving up five runs (all in the first) on five hits. He struck out five.

Bad news: The TinCaps lost outfielder Everett Williams for the rest of the season, the San Diego Union Tribune reported, after he had surgery to repair a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee. Williams collided with outfielder Donavan Tate in a game on April 12 at Bowling Green. Tate is expected to be out until around June 1, the Union Tribune reported.

Quotable

"We had a meeting today and talked about it's a new month, the past is the past, and stay consistent in what we're doing and what we're preaching and it will come around. I feel like we built off each other today and it came around for us."

- Tremblay on the big offensive day for Fort Wayne