The Bowling Green Hot Rods were unable to avoid the sweep, falling 6-3 to Lake County (Ohio). For a team looking for more consistency, the second half has gotten off to a rather inconsistent start.

BG outscored Lansing (Mich.) 25-3 in a three game sweep, but managed six runs in three losses to the Captains.

The Hot Rods got five shutout innings from the starter for a second straight game, only to lose in the latter innings.

Here are post game comments from manager Jared Sandberg and catcher Luke Maile

Sandberg

“The game is not easy. You go up against a guy like Dylan Baker and he goes five no hit innings. He had tremendous stuff today. He pitched extremely well to keep us off balance.”

On Eduar Quinonez’s four walk inning that led to three runs

“It’s not easy to throw strikes. Quinonez is out there battling. For whatever it is, lose of concentration or feel, whatever it was, he lost the command and they ultimately ended up with three runs.”

“I think going forward we need more concentration and consistency for sure. How do we get that? It’s young players. They are going to have to dig deep. For most of them it is their first full season. As cliche as it is, they have to keep grinding it out.”

Maile

“All the credit goes to them. Their pitchers did a nice job, especially their guys the last two days. It comes down to the basics for us. When we do the basics we are pretty successful. We did a pretty good job of sort of giving ourselves a chance, but they executed better than we did down the stretch.”

finding more consistency

“I think consistency at any level is really the backbone that makes good teams great and average teams good. We have a lot of talent on this team. We are putting our work in and doing what we need to do. It just comes down to playing better baseball.”

on his recent offensive surge

“I think I’m just being more aggressive at the plate. I’m not missing my pitches quite as much. I’m starting to put balls in play on advantage counts and hit line drives. I’ve felt pretty good for the most part this month. I think it just the ebb and flow of baseball. Sometimes you are on and sometimes you are not. I’ve made the adjustments I’ve needed to do. I just have to keep making more of them.”