The Lexington Legends powered their way past the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Saturday night with a 10-4 victory.
Lexington took an early lead, scoring two in the second and fourth innings. After falling behind 4-0, Southern Maryland responded.
The Crabs scored twice in the fifth after Pearce Howard reached on an error, which scored Jamari Baylor and Sam Dexter reached on a fielder’s choice to score Giovanni Digiaciomo.
Despite making it 4-2, Lexington tallied four in the fifth to take an 8-2 lead.
In the sixth, Brett Barrera spanked a two-run shot to right to cut the deficit to 8-4, but Lexington added to their lead with two runs in the eighth to make it 10-4.
Southern Maryland has now dropped consecutive games in Lexington and fall to 40-32 overall and 4-5 in the second half. The Crabs will look to salvage Sunday’s game with first pitch at 2:00 p.m.