Around the MWL: 4/9/10

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Non-Rattlers Game of the night
How does a game go 12 innings with a combined 22 hits and one team committing 7 errors?

With the temperature plunging and only remnants of the latest sellout crowd remaining, the Dayton Dragons would have given anything for a big hit.

Or another error by the Lansing Lugnuts.

But suddenly, after committing six fielding miscues through eight innings and looking like the Bad News Bears most of the night, the Lugnuts had morphed into a squad of Gold Glovers for a few innings, and the Dragons were managing nothing more than the occasional single.

Then came the 12th inning and, finally, that elusive seventh error that sent Henry Rodriguez home with the run that made the Dragons 4-3 winners Friday, April 9, giving them two straight extra-inning victories at Fifth Third Field to begin the season.

Rodriguez opened the 12th by bunting his way on. He stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and, with two outs, hustled home when third baseman Oliver Dominguez booted a sharp but playable Chris Richburg grounder.

Whoo! Fun!