Toledo Mud Hens 10, Louisville Bats 5 (box)The Mud Hens hammered Bats pitching all night, while Ty Madden put together a pretty decent start as the Hens cut the Bats’ series lead to two games to one.The Hens opened the scoring in the top of the second inning. Jace Jung singled with one out and Trei Cruz drew a walk after challenging a strike call successfully. Corey Julks smoked a groundball single into left field to plate Jung, and Tyler Gentry followed suit with a single to score Cruz.

A Max Burt grounder forced Gentry at second and allowed Julks to score and then Ben Malgeri was hit by a pitch. Max Clark wrapped up the inning with a rocket that the Bats’ second baseman couldn’t handle. The single scored Burt for a 4-0 lead.Max Clark hits a 106 MPH rocket through the second baseman to score Max Burt and put Toledo up 4-0. pic.twitter.com/XCdnbyEd6k— Tigers ML Report (@tigersMLreport) April 16, 2026Madden had a clean first inning, but he walked Noelvi Marte to open the bottom of the second and JJ Bleday mashed a two-run shot to right center field. 4-2 Hens.From that point on, Madden locked more successfully, striking out a pair of hitters to clean up the inning.

In the fourth, Madden gave up back-to-back singles to Bleday and then Michael Toglia, but Max Clark came through with his sixth assist of the young season, gunning down Toglia as he overran second base and tried to get back. A fly out from Francisco Urbaez to Clark snuffed any further thoughts of a rally.Max knew you guys were missing him yesterday, so he just wanted to put on a little show for you. And he did not disappoint pic.twitter.com/alg14bl38T— Toledo Mud Hens (@MudHens) April 16, 2026Meanwhile, the Hens had already rebuilt a four-run lead in the top of the third.

Eduardo Valencia and Jace Jung led off the inning with singles. Cruz grounded out, but Julks stayed hot with a two-run double the opposite way to make it a 6-2 game. Workman doubled and scored on a Valencia single in the fourth to make it 7-2.Corey Julks ropes a 2-run double to right center to put the Mud Hens up 6-2. pic.twitter.com/rFKGtoAK6m— Tigers ML Report (@tigersMLreport) April 16, 2026Madden wrapped up his day with a 1-2-3 bottom of the fifth, finishing with two runs charged and four strikeouts to his credit.

His velocity is still down in the 92-93 mph range for the most part and he was throwing a heavy volume of cutters, splitters, and sliders. Lefty Drew Sommers gave up a run in the sixth and Burch Smith had to clean up that inning, but in the seventh, Valencia and Jung drew walks to start the inning and Cruz singled in Valencia. Gentry later singled in Jung and Cruz for a 10-3 lead.

Might go by Max Clark, but that catch? Pure Clark Kent.Some may even say Superman✨ pic.twitter.com/1e9OlYLskY— Toledo Mud Hens (@MudHens) April 17, 2026Smith allowed a two run shot in the seventh to make it 10-5. Tanner Rainey handled the eighth, while Matt Seelinger closed this one out in the ninth.

Julks: 2-5, R, 3 RBI, 2B, KCruz: 2-4, 2 R, RBI, BBJung: 2-4, 3 R, BBClark: 1-5, RBIMadden (W, 2-0): 5.0 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, BB, 4 KComing Up Next: It’s a 6:35 p.m. ET start on Friday night. Harrisburg Senators 11, Erie SeaWolves 9 (box) The SeaWolves built a slim early lead, but starter Joe Miller was knocked around as the Senators stormed back and held off a late charge from Erie to go up 2-0 in the series.

A planned doubleheader’s second game was rained out, and so they’ll attempt to play two on Friday.Miller gave up a run in the top of the first, but in the bottom half, Seth Stephenson led off with a walk and stole second base, and then third as Peyton Graham struck out. An infield single from Brett Callahan got the run home and tied things up at 1-1. Callahan then stole second and took third on a poor throw.

A John Peck ground out scored the run to make it 2-1. Miller got through the second unscathed, and the SeaWolves added on as Justice Bigbie led off with a single, stole second as Erie continued to run wild, and scored on an E.J. Exposito single for a 3-1 lead.

Unfortunately, Miller gave up the lead in the top of the third and Sean Hunley was rocked in relief, giving up four runs in the top of the fourth to make it 7-3 Harrisburg. Aaron Antonini launched a solo shot in the bottom of the fourth to make it 7-4. The Senators answered back with a three-run shot from Kervin Pichardo for a 10-4 lead.

Wandisson Charles was wild for the SeaWolves in the top of the sixth, walking three in a rough inning that included an error on Charles and a wild pitch, and finally walking in a run to make it 11-4 before Luke Taggart took over and got out of the inning.Aaron Antonini crushes a solo home run to right to pull Erie back within three runs. @BurgessLuke03 on the call. pic.twitter.com/mnxuurWHfd— Tigers ML Report (@tigersMLreport) April 16, 2026In the bottom of the eighth, the SeaWolves did fight back. Bennett Lee and Stephenson singled to start the inning. Callahan stayed hot with an RBI double to left, a