{"id":6586,"date":"2026-05-07T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:33:42","slug":"mustangs-get-plenty-of-relief-in-8-4-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs get plenty of relief in 8-4 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cody Perez no-hits Lower Lake over final five innings in come-from-behind victory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Once Cody Perez took over on the mound Wednesday afternoon, it was lights out for the Lower Lake Trojans, who couldn\u2019t touch the Middletown reliever during North Central League I varsity baseball action in Lower Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown bounced back from a 4-1 deficit to win 8-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perez, the third of three Middletown pitchers, shut out Lower Lake (1-10 league, 4-15-1 overall) on no hits during his five innings of work, striking out seven and walking none. He entered the game in the bottom of the third after Lower Lake had scored a run to go up 4-1 and slammed the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown (5-7, 8-9) rallied to tie the game with two runs in the fourth and another in the fifth. The Mustangs pushed ahead 7-4 with a three-run sixth before adding a final run in th seventh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cody de Jong went 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs to spark the Middletown offense. John Finney went 2-for-4 with a RBI while Blake Costlow went 2-for-4. Jon Hawkins (1-for-1) and Madden Sutton also drove in runs for the Mustangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake statistics were not reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown can still reach .500 in league play with wins in its final two games, including a rematch Friday with Lower Lake at Wes Martin Field in Middletown. The Mustangs close out their league schedule Monday at home against Cloverdale at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cody Perez no-hits Lower Lake over final five innings in come-from-behind victory Lake County Sports on Facebook LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Once Cody Perez took over on the mound Wednesday afternoon, it was lights out for the Lower Lake Trojans, who couldn\u2019t touch the Middletown reliever during North Central League I varsity baseball action in Lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,84,18,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}