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Matt Skole didn't get to swing the bat much on Thursday. So when he did, it had to count. Skole blasted a two-run home run off Lakewood closer Ryan Duke in the bottom of the 10th inning to complete a come-from-behind 11-9 victory before 1,052 fans at Municipal Stadium. The Suns (7-8) trailed 7-0 after 2 1/2 innings, but scored six runs to claw back into the game in the bottom of the third and kept chipping away to tie the game and pull out the victory. The win broke Hagerstown's five-game losing streak - the Suns are 2-7 in their last nine.

Hits hurt, especially when they are strung together. Hagerstown Suns' starter Wirken Estevez had a no-hitter for five innings. Lakewood woke up in the sixth. The BlueClaws notched six of their nine hits to create a six-run sixth inning en route to a 7-4 victory over Hagerstown on Sunday. Logan Moore highlighted the rally with a base-clearing double off reliever Todd Simko to put the BlueClaws out front for the their third win in the four-game series. The Suns (6-5) held a 3-0 lead behind Estevez heading into the sixth until Lakewood sent 10 batters to the plate in the inning.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. - Hagerstown pitchers Kylin Turnbull and Taylor Hill combined to hold Lakewood to four hits, and the Suns beat the BlueClaws 5-1 on Friday in a South Atlantic League game. Hagerstown (6-3) took a 1-0 lead in the third inning off Lakewood starter Ethan Stewart. Brett Newsome led off with a double to left and scored one out later on Billy Burns' triple to left. Turnbull worked a scoreless first five innings before the BlueClaws got to him in the sixth, tying the score at 1. Gauntlett Eldemire led off with a double to center and scored on a two-out double to left by Maikel Franco off Hill, who had just entered the game.

After a successful homestand to start the season, the Hagerstown Suns played their first road game Thursday night. The Lakewood BlueClaws greeted them rather rudely. Lakewood exploded for six runs in the first inning and cruised to an 8-1 victory over Hagerstown in a South Atlantic League game. Suns starter Alex Meyer (1-1) didn't get out of the opening frame, allowing three hits and two walks - and he didn't get much help from his defense, which committed two errors. Gauntlett Eldemire led off with a single and went to second on right fielder Caleb Ramsey's error.

Kevin Keyes and Jason Martinson led off the bottom of the sixth inning with back-to-back home runs on Sunday to lift the Hagerstown Suns to a 4-2 victory over the Lakewood BlueClaws at Municipal Stadium. Trailing 2-1, Keyes tied the game when he greeted Lakewood reliever Ebelin Lugo with a drive to right for his 17th homer of the season. Martinson followed with a homer of his own - hit 19th - with another shot to right. Justino Cuevas followed with a double and scored on Wade Moore's single to complete a three-run rally to give Hagerstown (74-64, 34-34)

There's is something to be said for “They all look like line drives in the boxscore.” Lakewood's Ben Rice hit a dribbler that went about 100 feet, but to Hagerstown starter Chris McKenzie, it might as well have bounced of the center-field wall. That was the beginning of the end for the Suns. Rice's grounder and foot speed turned a legged-out single into a four-run first inning on Thursday as Lakewood unloaded a 10-1 win over the reeling Suns, sending them to their eighth straight loss.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — Lakewood pushed across a run with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning for a 1-0 victory over Hagerstown on Wednesday, leaving both teams with an 8-6 record in the second half of the South Atlantic League season. The Suns had a big problem with Lakewood starter Lisalberto Bonilla, who struck out 12 and walked none. Hagerstown managed only five hits off Bonilla and had just two scoring opportunities, both going for naught. The Suns left runners at first and third in the fifth inning and had two on in the top of the ninth with one out before Justin Martinson grounded into a double play.

Cole Leonida isn’t known as a home run hitter. But he showed that he is a guy who knows how to pick his spots. Leonida connected for a two-run homer — the first of his professional career — in the sixth inning to lift the Suns to a much-needed 8-4 victory over Lakewood on Thursday to take 3 of 4 from the BlueClaws. It was a huge comeback win for Hagerstown (5-3, 45-33) after an embarrassing 7-2 loss on Wednesday that included four errors and only four hits. If there were a spot to hit a homer, Leonida selected the right situation.

In a night that was a comedy of errors, the Hagerstown Suns provided everything but the laugh track. The Suns committed four errors, played a loose game defensively and only managed four hits against a collection of Lakewood pitchers on Wedneday in an embarrassing 7-2 loss at Municipal Stadium. Lakewood's first three runs were unearned and the final two were helped along by defensive lapses as the Suns (4-3, 44-33) lost their two-game winning streak. Offensively, both of the Hagerstown's runs came without the benefit of a hit as the Suns continued to struggle in bases-loaded situations.

Kevin Keyes admits he doesn’t know his own strength. “I guess I don’t know the power God blessed me with,” the Hagerstown Suns outfielder said. Keyes is blessed and the Suns are rejoicing about now. Keyes unloaded a leadoff home run in the 14th inning — his second of the night — to lift Hagerstown to a come-from-behind 4-3 victory over Lakewood on Tuesday at Municipal Stadium. Keyes, who has seven homers in his last eight games, bookended his two right-field shots around a dramatic two-run blast by Michael Taylor in the ninth to erase a 3-1 deficit and move the Suns into extra innings.