Dayton’s Jose Torres blasted a 429-foot home run with a man on base to get the scoring started in the third inning. The homer was Torres’ fifth of the season and his second in the first four games of the road trip to give the Dragons a 2-0 lead.
In the fourth, Justice Thompson walked to start the inning and scored from first base on Alex McGarry’s double to right-center field to make it 3-0. The Dragons added two more in the fifth, set up by a pair of singles by Torres and Elly De La Cruz followed by an error and a run-scoring single by McGarry to make it 5-0. Dayton added one more run in the sixth when Jonathan Willems doubled with two outs and scored on Torres’ third hit of the game, a single to center, to give Dayton a 6-0 lead.
Meanwhile, Phillips (2-2) allowed just three hits over six innings (all singles) and allowed only one runner past first base. The game marked the second time in Phillips’ last three starts that he has fired six shutout innings. The nine strikeouts was one short of his season high.
Lansing scored single runs in the seventh and eighth innings before Carson Rudd entered the game to work the ninth and struck out three in the inning in a non-save situation.
Dayton finished with eight hits. Torres was 3 for 5 with two singles, a home run, and three runs batted in. McGarry was 2 for 5 with a double, single, and two RBI.
SUNDAY’S GAME
Dragons at TinCaps, 1:05 p.m., 980