Saints open road trip with loss in Toledo to Mud Hens

The St. Paul Saints momentum — having won six of seven — was halted momentarily in Toledo, Ohio to open a six-game road trip against the Mud Hens.

Toledo scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning off Ryan Gallagher and won going away 12-4 on Tuesday night. Gage Workman‘s three-run homer was the big blow in the first.

St. Paul got within a run in the fourth after Kyler Fedko’s third-inning, RBI groundout and Aaron Sabato’s sacrifice fly in the fourth, but the Mud Hens answered quickly in the bottom of the fourth. They would add another four-run inning in the seventh.

Kaelen Culpepper had two of the Saints’ four hits in the game. Tanner Schobel hit a two-run homer for St. Paul.

Gallagher (2-2) ended up surrendering seven runs on eight hits in five innings pitched. Andrew Bash allowed a run in an inning of relief of Gallagher and Alejandro Hidalgo gave up four runs while getting just two outs.

The series continues Wednesday at 6:05 p.m. CDT.