Bowling Green Hot Rods first baseman Raudelis Martinez (2) bats in the Hot Rods 3-1 loss to the Spartanburgers at the Bowling Green Ballpark on Thursday, June 19, 2025. GRACE MCDOWELL / BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS

The Bowling Green Hot Rods used two five-run innings to take a 12-5 win over the Hub City Spartanburgers in South Atlantic League action Friday night at Bowling Green Ballpark.

Bowling Green (35-30 overall, 1-0 second half) jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning off Hub City starting pitcher Kolton Curtis. Adrian Santana reached on a leadoff single and Émilien Pitre crushed a two-run home run to put the Hot Rods ahead 2-0. Two hitters later, Noah Myers walked and moved to second on a Ryan Spikes fielder’s choice. Daniel Vellojin sliced an RBI double down the first base side to score Myers. Hunter Haas drove in Spikes on a sacrifice fly and Raudelis Martinez plated in Vellojin with an RBI single to cap the five-run frame.

Hub City (31-35) answered with one run in the top of the second off Hot Rods starter Hayden Snelsire. Casey Cook and Gleider Figuereo recorded back-to-back singles and Julian Brock walked to load the bases. Luis Marquez singled home Cook to cut the Hub City deficit to 5-1.

The Spartanburgers added two more runs in the sixth with Snelsire still on the mound. Cook doubled and Figuereo blasted a two-run homer, bringing Hub City within two runs, 5-3.

Hub City erased the deficit in the seventh against Hot Rod reliever Junior Williams. Keith Jones II smashed a leadoff homer. Dylan Dreiling and Anthony Gutierrez followed with back-to-back singles. Dreiling and Gutierrez executed a double steal and Dreiling scored on a Vellojin throwing error to third base to tie the game at 5-5.

The Hot Rods responded with a five-run, two-out rally in the bottom of the seventh. Mac Horvath reached on a hit-by-pitch and moved to third on a Myers single. Spikes drove in both runners with a two-run single off reliever D.J. McCarty. Vellojin scored Spikes on an RBI single to extend Bowling Green’s lead to 8-5. Haas reached on a walk and Martinez ripped a two-run double off Victor Simeon to push the Hot Rods’ lead to 10-5.

Bowling Green added two runs in the eighth. Horvath walloped a two-run homer off Simeon to give the Hot Rods a 12-5 lead.

Williams (1-1) earned his first win of the season, going 1 2/3 innings while allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits with a pair of strikeouts. McCarty (0-3) took the loss, hurling 2 2/3 frames in relief while allowing five runs on five hits while striking out two.

The Hot Rods and Spartanburgers play the penultimate game of a weather-shortened five-game series Saturday at 6:35 p.m. The Hot Rods will send right-hander TJ Nichols (6-2, 3.70) to the hill, while Hub City’s starter is to be determined.