Lake County rallies past TinCaps

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Fort Wayne continued a season-worst losing streak with a 5-3 loss to Bowling Green on Saturday at Bowling Green Ballpark in Kentucky.Saturday

Video: TinCaps manager Jose Valentin

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.Saturday

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

Luigi Rodriguez knocked in pinch runner Todd Hankins with a triple in the ninth inning as Lake County rallied to defeat Fort Wayne 4-3 in the season opener Thursday.

The game was played in front of 8,577 fans at Parkview Field, the largest crowd in the park’s history.

Fort Wayne led 3-1 going into the eighth inning. The Captains used two bunt singles, a throwing error and a passed ball to tie the game at 3.

Jarrud Sabourin reached on a fielding error with two outs in the top of the ninth. Hankins then pinch-ran for him. Rodriguez drilled a triple to right field to give the Captains a 4-3 lead.

Jace Peterson had two hits and two RBI for Fort Wayne.

For more on the game, read Friday's Journal Gazette or return to www.journalgazette.net after 3 a.m.