Lakewood, N.J. (Aug. 19, 2026) – Jackson Lovich’s sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning pushed across the winning run for the Hudson Valley Renegades in a 6-5 win over the Jersey Shore BlueClaws on Wednesday afternoon at ShoreTown Ballpark.
With the winning run scoring in the top of the ninth, the Renegades secured their 17th win of the season coming in their last at-bat. Six of the Renegades’ last seven wins have come with the team scoring the winning run during their last turn at the plate in the game.
The Renegades have won nine of their last 11 games, their best 11-game stretch of the season. Hudson Valley has won five straight road games as part of this streak.
Hudson Valley has won 12 games this season when it has been tied or trailing after eight innings. Last year the team had only six wins in that scenario.
The Renegades hit two home runs today and have 121 on the season overall. It is the fourth time in team history that the Renegades have surpassed 120 homers in a season, which they last did in 2023.
The win brought the Renegades back to .500 overall for the season for the first time since they swept a doubleheader at Brooklyn on 5/21 to improve to 21-21.
The Renegades improved to 27-23 in the second half of the season and are 1.5 games back of Greensboro who currently sit in the second-half playoff spot.
The Renegades move to 9-11 overall against Jersey Shore on the season.
RHP Bryce Cunningham (6.0+ IP, 9 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 1 K) completed six innings for his second straight start and his third time in his last four starts. Cunningham had not lasted 6.0 IP in back-to-back starts in 2026 and had not done so since lasting 6.0 IP in five straight starts from 4/13-5-11/25.
Cunningham faced two batters in the bottom of the seventh and allowed both to reach, leaving with runners on second and third with no outs. Wilmy Sanchez was able to escape the jam and leave the runners on base.
The home run allowed by Cunningham to Saltiban in the fifth was his first long ball allowed since 6/30 vs Wilmington, a span of six starts and 38.2 innings.
This was the second straight start for Cunningham allowing four runs in six innings. On 8/13 vs Wilmington he allowed four runs on 10 hits. Across Cunningham’s last two starts he has allowed 19 hits in 12.0 innings.
It was also the second start for Cunningham this season in which he struck out only one batter, with the last time coming on 6/30 vs Wilmington.
CF Jackson Lovich (1-for-3, RBI, BB, 2 SB) drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning, scoring Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek from third.
Lovich drove in his 81st RBI of the season with the sac fly, which leads all Yankees minor league players.
His two stolen bases in the game gave him 33 on the year between the Renegades and Tampa, tied for eighth-most in the organization.
C Eric Genther (1-for-3, R, HR, 3 RBI, 2 BB) reached base three times and drove in three runs in the win on Wednesday.
Genther’s blast was his 13th of the season, the most for a Renegades catcher since Omar Martinez hit 13 in 2024.
Genther is up to 64 RBIs on the season, third most on the team behind Kyle West and Roderick Arias. He has driven in seven runs in the first two games of the series with the BlueClaws.
RF Camden Troyer (1-for-4, R, RBI) drove in the first Renegades run of the game with an RBI single in the fifth inning.
3B Hans Montero (1-for-4, R, HR, RBI) hit his first home run in High-A with a solo blast of Sam Highfill in the top of the sixth inning.
LF Robbie Burnett (1-for-3, R, BB) extended his on-base streak to 13 games.
SS Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek (1-for-3, 2 R, BB) has gotten on base in all 13 High-A games played and scored the winning run after drawing a leadoff walk in the ninth.
RHP Wilmy Sanchez (2.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K) struck out five batters across two innings and picked up the win.
It was Sanchez’s first 2.0 inning outing as a member of the Yankees system, he had two 2.0 IP outings on 4/10 and 4/14 with Corpus Christi in the Houston system.
Sanchez allowed a home run to Devin Saltiban, just the second home run he has allowed this season in 36 appearances.
RHP Hansel Rincon (1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K) picked up his first save of the season with a scoreless ninth.
It was his first save since 8/3/23 with the ACL Diamondbacks.