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A grand slam home run and a three-run shot can do a lot of damage, especially when the two homers come in back-to-back innings. Tuesday night in front of 6,067 at Shaw Park, Wichitas Abel Nieves hit a grand slam home run in the fifth and then Jared McDonald hit a three-run bomb in the sixth, as the visiting Wingnuts blasted the Winnipeg Goldeyes 11-0. With the loss, the Goldeyes fell to 13-12 on the season and that means Wednesday afternoons game will be the rubber-match and will determine who wins this three-game series. "They (the Wingnuts) played a great baseball game," said Goldeyes manager Rick Forney. "They lifted the ball and used the elements to their advantage. They used the whole field and (starter) Jon Link was tremendous, eight innings of shutout baseball. You have to tip your cap to him. Wichita took a 1-0 lead in the first as leadoff hitter Ryan Khoury doubled, went to third on a ground out and scored on a sacrifice fly by John Rodriguez. Then, in the fifth, the Wingnuts blew it open as Jared McDonald beat out an infield hit and eventually scored on a single by Tim Rotola. Then with Khoury on first, Rotola on second and David Amberson on third, Nieves belted a grand slam home run the opposite way, over the rightfield wall. In the sixth, Cole Armstrong singled, Colt Loehrs singled and MacDonald hit his three-run homer to put the lights out on the festivities. The Wingnuts added two more runs in the seventh, just for fun, as McDonald singled home Rodriguez to pick up his fourth RBI of the night and then Amberson hit into a fielders choice and drove in CJ Ziegler. Goldeyes starting pitcher Matt Rusch (4-2, 3.93 ERA) had his worst outing of the season, allowing nine runs on nine hits, including the two backbreaking home runs, over six innings of work. The Wingnuts finished with 11 runs on 13 hits. Jon Link (5-1, 1.69 ERA) picked up the win for Wichita. Link pitched eight complete innings, scattered eight hits, struck out six and threw 117 pitches. "Jon Link was above the league," said Forney. "Thats the most dominating performance Ive seen from a pitcher in this league in seven or eight years. He had a great plan and he executed it tonight. No wonder he pitched in the majors. Tip your cap to him, he did a great job." Goldeyes slugger Josh Mazzola was ejected after striking out in the first inning. He took issue with the work of home plate umpire P.J. Krauss. Nick Liles replaced him in the lineup and finished with a pair of singles. Casey Haerthers hot bat continued to smoke as Haerther had a single and a double. In total, the Goldeyes managed eight hits. 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Detroit and Boston are deadlocked, 1-1, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland could be forgiven if he was caught rationalizing instead of dissecting how his club could blow a 5-1 lead late in Game 2.NAIROBI, Kenya -- A magistrate ruled Wednesday that Kenyas track and field manager can be held for 28 days while police investigate allegations that he helped cover up doping for cash.Michael Rotich was sent home from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics by Kenyan authorities after the British newspaper The Sunday Times reported allegations that he agreed to take a 10,000-pound ($13,000) bribe in exchange for helping athletes beat doping tests.Police initially asked that he be held for seven days, but they later requested a longer period in order to complete their investigation.In issuing the order, magistrate Christine Njagi called doping a serious offense that needed to be investigated.Prosecutor Duncan Ondimu told Njagi that Rotich was arrested Tuesday at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport upon his arrival from Brazil, and police have not had time to conduct and conclude their inquiry.Rotichs lawyer, Ham Lagat, said the evidence against his client is not strong enough.It is tenuous, it is whimsical evidence, Lagat said. It is about a video, it is about a newspaper, it could be a gutter press, he added.The Sunday Times reported that Rotich told its undercoveer reporters who were posing as coaches that he could protect doping athletes from doping tests in exchange for a payoff.dddddddddddd Rotich reportedly said he could protect athletes from doping controls because he is a senior track federation official in the region and knew when the official testers would be targeting athletes, according to the newspaper.Athletes arent supposed to be tipped off in advance of tests to ensure that they dont try to avoid them or manipulate their samples to appear clean.Kenyas anti-doping program has been under scrutiny ahead of the Rio Games, with the World Anti-Doping Agency removing the country from its non-compliant list on the opening day of the Olympics. At least 40 of the countrys track and field athletes have been banned since the 2012 Olympics. Four senior officials at Kenyas track federation have been suspended by tracks governing body after being accused of trying to corrupt the anti-doping system.---Associated Press Television News Producer Khaled Kazziha contributed to this report. ' ' '