CLEARWATER, Fla. (Interstat) — Clearwater scored six times in the fourth inning and defeated Fort Myers Mighty Mussels 9-3 on Thursday evening in game one of a doubleheader at Spectrum Field.

Sean Youngerman (4-5) pitched five innings, allowing three hits and one earned run with three strikeouts, and Clearwater improved to 73-53. Fort Myers dropped to 66-59.

The Threshers took a 2-0 lead in the first. Tyler Minnick’s run-scoring single in the second made it 3-0. Fort Myers got on the board on Merphy Hernandez’s RBI single in the third, but Clearwater erupted in the fourth. Nolan Beltran, Jonathan Hogart and Reece Moroney drove in runs during the six-run inning, and Hogart finished with two RBIs. Minnick also drove in two. Matthew Ferrara had two hits.

Cristian Hernandez (0-1) took the loss for Fort Myers, which finished with five hits. The Mighty Mussels scored two in the sixth. Clearwater collected 10 hits, while Fort Myers had five. The game lasted 2 hours, 16 minutes and attendance was 3,743.