Tejeda was coming off of one of his roughest performances of the season, when he gave up five earned runs in three innings last Friday in Lake County. The win broke a three game losing streak for Tejeda.
The victory was the sixth straight for the BlueClaws, who pulled within one game of first-place West Virginia with the final out. Lakewood had lost four straight coming into the current winning run.
Reymond Cruz and Joe Rocchio pitched the final three innings in support of Tejeda to wrap up the shutout and hold the Legends to just three hits in the game. Cruz nearly ran into some trouble in the seventh, allowing a pair of baserunners, but got Brandon Barnes to fly out to the warning track in leftfield to end the threat.
Lakewood (9-6, 47-38) took the lead early thanks to a long ball off the bat of Dennis Winn. The BlueClaws second baseman drove in two with his fourth home run of the season. Winn, who was the second batter of the game, put Legends starter Luis Pardo in the early whole.
Pardo (0-5) was making just his third start of the season. The right-hander gave up four runs, three earned, in 4 1/3 innings. The BlueClaws tagged him for eight hits over that span.
Travis Mattair added an RBI groundout in the third and Karl Bolt got another run in thanks to a Bryan Brown error in the fifth.
Lakewood is now nine games over .500, their best mark since they were also nine games over at 35-26 on June 7.
Lakewood will try to wrap up a series win over the Legends (3-12, 24-60) on Friday at 7:05 p.m. Chance Chapman (5-4) will make the Fourth of July start for the BlueClaws.