Joe Vetrano’s two home runs lift Tulsa past Wichita
TULSA, Okla. (Interstat) — Joe Vetrano homered twice and drove in four runs to lift the Tulsa Drillers to a 7-4 victory over the Wichita WindSurge on Friday at ONEOK Field.
Vetrano tied the game 1-1 with a solo home run in the third inning, then hit a three-run shot in the sixth as Tulsa scored five in the frame. Josue De Paula later added a ground-rule double that plated Kole Myers. Wichita had taken a 2-1 lead in the fourth on Andrew Cossetti’s home run. The WindSurge cut the deficit to three in the eighth on Marek Houston’s two-run homer.
Christian Zazueta (5-4) earned the win after allowing two earned runs and four hits over six innings with seven strikeouts. Lucas Wepf pitched a clean ninth for his third save. Darren Bowen (5-2) took the loss.
Cossetti finished 2-for-3 for Wichita. Preston Johnson struck out seven over four innings. Attendance was 5,824, and the game lasted 2:45. Tulsa improved to 82-48; Wichita fell to 51-77.