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“They want to be here to get through 30 years,” he said. “We were building military vehicles at this plant at one time,” he said.Īssembly line worker Mike Lakies, who has been with GM for 29 years, is happy that the investment will let him stay at the plant until he retires, but he's concerned for those with lesser seniority. He’s happy that the plant’s future is secure for at least seven to 10 years, and said it will adapt to changes as it always has done. Smokies reliever Danis Correa was called on and escaped the jam by inducing a ground out from Kevin Maitan.“It does raise concerns because we do build big trucks,” said Ryan Buchalski, president of the United Auto Workers local at the plant. The Trash Pandas brought the tying run to the plate with two outs in the eighth. In the seventh, Edgar Quero got a run back for the Trash Pandas with his second home run of the season, a 402-foot solo shot to left-center that left his bat at 102 miles per hour to make it an 8-5 game. Blake Whitney (W, 2-0) pitched two scoreless innings to maintain the lead. Wicks lasted four innings for the Smokies, giving up four runs on eight hits with one walk and six strikeouts. Murphy allowed two runs in 1.1 frames of relief, striking out three. Over 5.2 innings, Kristofak (L, 4-2) allowed six runs, five earned, on six hits with three walks and three strikeouts to suffer just his second loss of the season. A two-out rally plated three more Tennessee runs with reliever Luke Murphy in the game, extending the lead to 8-4.

With two outs and a runner on second, Cole Roederer put the Smokies back in front 5-4 with a two-run homer to dead center, just eluding the leaping attempt from Teodosio at the wall.

Kristofak was able to hold it in the fifth. David Calabrese brought both runners home with a sharp single to center, giving the Trash Pandas a 4-3 lead after four. Bryce Teodosio kept the inning going with a ground rule double into the left field corner. Jeremiah Jackson began the inning with a single, advanced to second on a wild pitch, took third on an error, and eventually came home to score on Tucker Flint’s RBI single. Rocket City responded in the fourth to take the lead back. An inning later, the Smokies took the lead for the first time on a throwing error from Trash Pandas third baseman Kevin Maitan, followed by a double from Owen Caissie to make it 3-1. The Smokies loaded the bases with nobody out in the second, but were only able to get one run to tie the game on Nelson Maldonado’s sacrifice fly. The Trash Pandas struck first in the bottom half, with David Calabrese hitting a leadoff double and coming home on an RBI single from Orlando Martinez against Tennessee starter Jordan Wicks. Rocket City starter Zac Kristofak began the game in fine form, retiring the Smokies in order to start the game.

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( WAFF) - In a back-and-forth affair, the Rocket City Trash Pandas couldn’t keep up with the Tennessee Smokies, ultimately falling 8-5 in the opener of a six-game series on Tuesday night at Toyota Field.

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