Down on the Farm: Cougars, Smokies, Cubs pick up wins

Iowa was coming off a huge 12-3 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs and entered Tuesday’s game hoping to repeat Monday night’s performance.

The Cubs trailed the Zephyrs 2-0 until the second inning, when Josh Vitters would launch his first of two home runs in the game to tie it up at two apiece. Vitters would come up to the plate during the top of the fourth and pick up another two-run shot to make it 4-2. He has now homered three times in the last two games.

Starting pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada turned in another decent outing last night against New Orleans. Wada finished with six innings of work and was charged with three earned runs while striking out just one. Right-handed reliever Carlos Pimentel would enter the game and end up blowing the save after pitching three innings.

Facing Pimentel, former Chicago Cubs outfielder Brian Bogusevic tied the game on an RBI sacrifice fly during the bottom of the seventh inning. The game later headed to extras, where Iowa scored the go-ahead run when a wild pitch allowed a run to score with shortstop Javier Baez at the dish.

Last night, the winning pitcher was Zac Rosscup (2-0, 3.00 ERA) while the loss was handed to Chaz Roe (1-0, 4.03 ERA) and the save was picked up by Marcos Mateo (2).

Final Score: Cubs 5, Zephyrs 4.

Iowa Cubs improve to 17-13.