The Fort Wayne TinCaps walked off the South Bend Cubs 4-3 in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader.
Game recap from the Fort Wayne TinCaps:
Fort Wayne Walks Off South Bend in Game 1 of Twin Bill
Fort Wayne, Indiana (June 18, 2026) – The Fort Wayne TinCaps walked off the South Bend Cubs (Cubs affiliate) 4-3 in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader.
Fort Wayne (26-39) got five scoreless innings from right-hander Maikel Miralles in his 11th start of the campaign. Miralles gave up two hits in his second five-inning start of 2026 and the first at Parkview Field.
Right fielder Jake Cunningham hammered his 15th home run of the season in the sixth inning to tie the ball game. The blast registered at 114.2 mph off the bat and 464 feet over the left field wall, the longest recorded home run of the season, hit by a TinCap.
After neither team pushed a run across in the seventh, extra innings were forced for Fort Wayne for the second time this season. Catcher Lamar King Jr. (No. 14 Padres prospect) tied the contest up with an RBI single in the eighth, before Jack Costello finished the job with an RBI walk-off infield single to end the game.
It’s the fourth walk-off winner for the TinCaps this season, and the second for Costello. The 25-year-old launched a walk-off home run on May 24 against Dayton, the first Fort Wayne walk-off blast since Joshua Mears did so on June 21, 2024, against Wisconsin.
South Bend (39-22) got its biggest hit of the game from catcher Justin Stransky with his two-run single in the sixth frame. Stransky reached in three of his four trips to the plate after going 1-for-4 with a single on Tuesday. Left-handed pitcher Cole Reynolds tossed four innings of one-run ball out of the bullpen in his first relief appearance of the season.
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