Wells Smacks 3 Out of the Park
It was a special day for <Steve Wells:player#11890>, but less so for the <Nampa Stampeders:team#100>.

Wells slammed three home runs against the <Paducah Tigers:team#38>, but the Tigers outhit him and got the win by a score of 10-8.

"Lately, I been uppercutting the ball too much. I would hit it hard, but they just went sky high and stayed in the ballpark," he said to sportswriters after the game. "No big long outs for me in this game -- I leveled out my swing and connected on the sweet spot three times. I knew they were gone the minute I hit 'em."

The <Nampa:team#100> left fielder finished the day at Paducah Ballpark with 3 hits in 5 at-bats, 5 runs batted in and 3 runs scored.

<Steve Wells:player#11890> struck out in the 1st, grounded out in the 4th, hit a two-run home run off <Gertjan Johnson:player#1691> in the 5th, hit a two-run home run off <Jesús Nava:player#10897> in the 7th and hit a solo-shot off <Clarence Jordan:player#8886> in the 9th.

So far this year <Wells:player#11890> is batting .296 with 18 home runs.