With two outs in the top of the second, Smith surrendered a double to Daryl Ruiz for Windy City’s first hit of the evening.

Tony Livermore followed with an opposite-field single that Booker fielded in left before firing home, allowing catcher Victor Diaz to apply the tag and keep the game scoreless.

Mississippi picked up its second one-out baserunner of the game in the bottom of the second after Kasten Furr drew the first walk issued by Wehrle, but a ground-ball double play followed to keep the Mud Monsters off the scoreboard.

Smith allowed a leadoff single to Josue Urdaneta in the top of the third.

A groundout to first advanced Urdaneta to second, but Smith pitched his way out of the inning unscathed to maintain the scoreless affair.

Five pitches later, Diaz went back-to-back with Paz, launching the 100th home run in franchise history to extend Mississippi’s advantage to 2-0.

Joshua Shelly followed with a double to reach second with nobody out before Booker delivered his second hit of the evening one batter later with one out, bringing Shelly home to make it 3-0 Mississippi.

Livermore, Urdaneta and McArthur opened the inning with three consecutive singles to load the bases with nobody out.

A bases-loaded walk to Sandle followed to force home Windy City’s first run and make it 3-1.

Fogel then lifted a fly ball deep enough to bring home Urdaneta from third, cutting Mississippi’s advantage to one at 3-2.

Beebe was hit by a pitch to reload the bases before Carlos Pena lifted a fly ball to the center-field wall. Skinner made the catch, but McArthur tagged from third and Sandle tagged from second, with both runners coming around to score to give Windy City a 4-3 lead.

Back-to-back walks to Cerny and Ruiz followed before manager Jay Pecci activated the Mississippi bullpen and called upon Hunter Belton in relief.

Belton inherited a bases-loaded situation, meaning all three runners remained Smith’s responsibility.

Livermore, who had led off the inning with a single, collected his second hit of the frame to plate two more runs and extend the ThunderBolts’ advantage to 6-3 before Belton recorded the final out.

With the book closed on Smith, the right-hander finished his outing going 4.2 innings, allowing six runs on seven hits while issuing five walks and striking out three.

Mississippi was retired in order in the bottom of the sixth before the Mud Monsters turned to Brayden Sanders out of the bullpen.

The rookie right-hander surrendered a leadoff single to Ruiz before recording the first two outs of the inning.

McArthur then reached on an error by third baseman Travis Holt that allowed Ruiz to advance to third.

With runners on the corners, Sandle went the opposite way into right field for an RBI single to extend Windy City’s advantage to 7-3 before Sanders recorded the final out to send the game to the seventh-inning stretch.

Sanders continued his outing into the top of the eighth and hit leadoff batter Beebe with a pitch to put a runner aboard.

Pecci once again turned to the bullpen, bringing in Connor Langrell.

Langrell struck out the first batter he faced before inducing an inning-ending double play to complete a scoreless top of the eighth.

Windy City made its first move to the bullpen in the bottom of the eighth, calling upon Justin Lovell.

The left-hander retired Mississippi in order before Langrell returned to the mound for the top of the ninth.

Langrell sat down the ThunderBolts in order, striking out the final two batters he faced to send the game to the bottom of the ninth with Mississippi trailing by three.