Miracle win streak ends at 12

By Special to the Naples Daily News

LAKELAND — The Fort Myers Miracle picked the wrong night to resort back to their first-half ways, falling one game short of the fracnchise’s record 13-game victory streak.

The Lakeland Flying Tigers took advantage of two Miracle errors in the fifth, scoring three unearned runs, coupled with solid bullpen relief to keep the Miracle bats quiet in a 5-2 win on Saturday night.

The Miracle win streak comes to an end at 12, while Lakeland snapped their own eight-game skid.

Sloppy play defensively continued from both sides as all Miracle runs on the evening were unearned as well.

The Miracle will look to start a new streak on tonight in the rubber-game of the three-game set with Lakeland. Game time is set for 6 p.m. as the Miracle send Errol Simonitsch (2-0, 6.86) to the bump opposite Eleazar Aponte (5-9, 4.88) for the Flying Tigers.