Game Recaps 6/5

Big props to Denny today for the running live blog he did on the MLB Draft. Some great stuff, and good instant flash analysis. Now, yes, Denny is known to go over-the-top at times, but he knows his stuff. For those that missed all the comments, just scroll down the page. While I know a great deal about the minors, I knw very little about the draft since I don't follow anything leading up to it. Just not enough time to follow 200 players in this system AND know a couple 1000 draft prospects. Heh.

Anyway, Denny will be back here on Friday posting thoughts to the much faster Day 2 portion of the draft where picks will come in much quicker now that TV is no longer involved. Again, big ups to Denny.

On a baseball related note, the Indians signed LHP John Halama today to a minor league deal and assigned him to Buffalo.

Also, Jordan Brown has his most recent blog up today, and sort of gives some insight into what Draft Day was like for him.

Kinston's Jim Deters pitches a Nine Inning, Complete Game Shutout

Kinston’s Jim Deters pitched a complete game shutout, allowing just three hits and walking one as the K-Tribe beat Wilmington 2-0 Thursday night. Deters struck out five and did not walk a batter in the nine inning affair. Deters (3-2) turned 25 on Wednesday, it was his wife’s 24th birthday today. It was the third spot start of the year for Deters, who has made the majority of his 17 appearances from the bullpen.

Deters got all the run support he needed in the sixth inning when Nick Weglarz drove home Beau Mills with an RBI-single in the top of the sixth inning. Kinston added an unearned run in the seventh, but the night belonged to Deters. The game took just one hour and fifty-nine minutes to complete, the shortest nine inning game of the season for Kinston.

Earlier in the night, the Blue Rocks beat Kinston 6-5, finishing up a game suspended by rain on Wednesday night. Wilmington picked up the game with the bases full of Blue Rocks and no outs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Facing Kinston reliever Matt Meyer, Wilmington's Joe Dickerson snuck an RBI single through the right side to give Wilmington a 5-3 lead. Later in the inning and RBI-double by Josh Johnson gave the Blue Rocks a three-run lead.

The K-Tribe answered back with a two runs in the eighth on a two-run single by Cristo Arnal. Kinston got the tying run in the ninth but came up short as Tyler Chambliss picked up his ninth save. The loss goes to Mike Pontius (2-1) after giving up five runs over an inning and four batters.

Kinston (29-30) returns to Grainger Stadium on Friday night for a short three game homestand against Myrtle Beach. Game time 7pm as Carlton Smith will take the mound for the K-Tribe.

CAPTAINS DOWN THE SUN 10-6

(Hagerstown, MD) – Every batter in the Lake County Captains line up scored at least on run and the Captains overcame a 5-2 deficit on their way to a 10-6 victory over the Hagerstown Suns on Thursday. Roman Pena and Doug Pickens each had three hits and Dustin Realini reached base in all five of his at bats to lead the Captains offense. The Captains bullpen pitched 6.2 innings of relief and allowed only one run. The Captains lead in the Northern Division is back up to 1.5 games over Delmarva as they lost their game to Lakewood.

The Captains jumped on Suns starter Justin Jones in the first inning. Adam White led off the game with a double and went to third on a single by Lucas Montero. Montero stole second to put runners at second and third. White was thrown out at home plate on a ground ball by Roman Pena. Dustin Realini then singled off the shortstop Dan Lyons glove to score Montero from second. Lyons tried to throw out Montero at home but the ball was overthrown allowing Pena to get to third base. The overthrown ball was retrieved by the Jones who tried to throw Pena out and third and his throw sailed past the third baseman and Pena scored to make it 2-0. The Suns got a run back in the bottom of the first off of Captains starter Joey Mahalic who walked Dan Lyons. Lyons went to second on a ground out and scored on a single by Stephen King to cut the lead to 2-1.

The Suns tied it in the second inning on a solo home run by Tim Pahuta and went ahead 3-2 in the same frame when Mark Gildea scored on an error by shortstop Ron Rivas. The Suns extended their lead in the third inning on a solo homer by Stephen King and added a second run on an RBI double by Pahuta and they lead 5-2.

The Captains tied it at 5-5 in the fourth inning getting an RBI from Ron Rivas that scored Jeff Hehr and then the tying runs scored on an error by Suns first baseman Bill Rhinehart that allowed Rivas and Adam White to score. The Captains took the lead in the fifth inning off of reliever Terrance Engles when they scored three runs on RBI’s by Hehr and White and another run scored on another error by Rhinehart to give the Captains an 8-5 lead. The Captains tacked on two more in the sixth inning on RBI’s by Matt Brown and Karexon Sanchez to up the lead to 10-5.

Mahalic went 2.1 innings giving up five runs, four earned on five hits, walking three and striking out two but did not factor in the decision. Jonathan Holt relieved Mahalic in the third and pitched 2.2 scoreless innings and picked up his second win of the year to up his mark to 2-4. John Gaub came on in the sixth inning and pitched two scoreless innings striking out four. Gary Campfield followed Gaub in the eighth inning allowing one run and Vinnie Pestano pitched a scoreless ninth inning. Engles suffered his first loss of the year to drop his record 3-1.

The Captains and Suns play game two of the series on Friday at 6:35 PM with the Captains sending LHP Kelvin De La Cruz (4-2, 1.40) to the mound against the Shorebirds LHP Colten Willems (4-4, 4.36). The game can be heard on AM 1330 WELW, WELW.COM or CAPTAINSBASEBALL.COM.

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