Greenville, North Carolina native Alex White picked up his first professional win, as Kinston beat Winston-Salem 4-1 Saturday night at Historic Grainger Stadium. White (1-0) pitched five innings, giving up two hits (an infield single and a double) and striking out seven. The former UNC star struck out the first two batters he faced, racking up five strikeouts in his first two innings of work.
The K-Tribe bullpen did the rest, as David Roberts, Matt Langwell and Steve Smith combined to hold on for the win. Langwell and Smith combined for two innings of hitless ball for the second straight night. Smith picked up his first save of the season.
Kinston scored in the bottom of the first inning when Nate Recknagel drove home Jordan Henry on an RBI ground out. The K-Tribe would take advantage of Dash mistakes in the third inning, when starting pitcher Charlie Leesman, threw wide of first allowing Donnie Webb to reach with one out in the frame. Recknagel drove Webb home with an RBI double one batter later. Sanchez would drive Recknagel home with a single later in the inning. Kinston would add an insurance run in the seventh inning when Henry scored from third on a balk.
The Indians (2-1) and Dash (1-2) will finish the four game series Sunday afternoon at 2 pm at Historic Grainger Stadium. T.J. House will make the start for Kinston. Every Sunday this season kids eat free! All kids ten and under eat free at every Sunday home game in 2010.
Indians edge Clippers 4-3
In slightly more baseball-like weather in Columbus Saturday night, the Indianapolis Indians got the better of a slightly more baseball-like score in a 4-3 victory over the Columbus Clippers a night after the 2 teams combined for 26 runs.
Indianapolis started the scoring in the 1st inning when Jeanmar Gomez struggled with his location, walking 3 batters in a row. With the bases loaded, Steve Pearce plated 2 runs with a single. A pair of doubles in the 3rd inning resulted in a 3-0 lead for the Indians.
Through the first 4 innings, Indy starter Donnie Veal kept the Clippers in check, but Columbus rallied in the 5th for 2 runs on a Jason Donald RBI single and a run-scoring double play off the bat of Russell Branyan. Anthony Claggett, on in relief of Veal allowed a run in the 7th inning on an RBI single from Anderson Hernandez to make it a 3-3 score.
The tie was short-lived as Brandon Moss continued a big night with a solo blast off of Steven Wright, giving the Indians a 4-3 lead that they would not relinquish. It was the only blemish on the Wright's otherwise strong outing. Jean Machi shut down the Clippers over the final 2 frames for the save.
The final game of the series kicks off at 1:05 Sunday afternoon with Yohan Pino taking the ball for the Clippers against the Tribe's Chris Jakubauskas.
Aeros Win Slugfest 11-10
The Aeros squandered a 9-2 lead at the end of the fourth inning to fall behind 10-9, but a ninth inning rally led to an 11-10 win. The teams combined for 21 runs and 31 hits in a knockdown-drag out affair that saw both squads squander leads in the contest.
Binghamton (1-2) carried a 10-9 lead into the ninth inning. Righty Jose De La Torre, who had retired the first five men to face him, allowed a one-out single to Matt McBride, which signaled the end of his afternoon. Manager Tim Teufel summoned Roy Merritt to get the final two outs of the game. Merritt promptly surrendered a single to Beau Mills, which advanced McBride to third. Carlos Rivero followed with a single through the right side, which pushed across McBride with the tying run. After getting Cord Phelps to ground into a fielder’s choice, which advanced Mills to second, Merritt gave up an RBI single to John Drennen that gave Akron (2-1) the lead they would not relinquish.
After falling behind early 2-0, Akron scored the next nine runs. Cord Phelps gave Akron its first lead with a three-run homer to right off Binghamton starter Scott Shaw.
In the third, the Aeros knocked Shaw out of the game with five more runs. Phelps dealt the blow that knocked the righty out of his Double-A debut, an RBI single that put Akron ahead 6-2. Edgar Ramirez spelled Shaw and allowed the two runners he inherited to score on a John Drennen sac fly and a Wyatt Toregas RBI double that put the Aeros in control 8-2. Shaw was saddled with eight runs in 2.1 innings of work. Nick Weglarz gave Akron their largest lead of the game, 9-2, with a solo homer in the fourth off Ramirez.
Vinnie Pestano picked up the win for Akron with a perfect eighth inning and Neil Wagner nailed down his second save in as many chances with a scoreless ninth. Starter Connor Graham allowed six runs on eight hits, four walks and had three strikeouts in four innings of work, while reliever Omar Aguilar struggled as well going 1.2 innings and allowing four runs on six hits, no walks, and had two strikeouts.
The Aeros and Mets close out this opening series in Binghamton Sunday afternoon at 1:05 p.m. Paolo Espino makes his first start of 2010 for the Aeros against Binghamton southpaw Mike Antonini. The game broadcast begins at 12:50 p.m. on SportsRadio 1350 AM and online at www.akronaeros.com.
Captains Sweep Whitecaps
Greg Folgia hit a two run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to break a 3-3 tie and lead the Lake County Captains to a 6-4 win over the West Michigan Whitecaps on Saturday afternoon. The Captains swept the three game series.
The Whitecaps took the lead in the top of the second inning when Eric Roof singled home Michael Rocket and it was 1-0. The lead was upped to 3-0 in the top of the third inning when Wade Gaynor hit a two run home run. The Captains tied it up in the bottom of the sixth inning when and error allowed a run to score and Jeremie Tice followed that with a two RBI single and the game was tied 3-3. Adam Abraham added a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to make it 6-3. The Caps added a run in the top of the ninth on a RBI double by Gaynor and the final was 6-4.
Captains starter Danny Salazar did not factor in the decision pitching five innings allowing three runs on nine hits and striking out four. Nick Sarianides (1-0) pitched 2.2 scoreless innings of relief to get his first win of the year. Cory Burns pitched the final 1.1 innings to allowing one run and registered his first save. Whitecaps starter Jacob Turner made his professional debut and did not get a decision either despite working five scoreless innings allowing only two four hits while striking out seven. Victor Larez (0-1) gave up five runs in 1.2 innings of work to take the loss.
The Captains travel to South Bend on Sunday for a 4:00PM game versus the Silver Hawks. The Captains will have RHP Austin Adams (0-0, 0.00) to the mound against the Hawks RHP Chase Anderson (0-0, 0.00). The game can be heard on ESPN 970 WFUN and on the internet at captainsbaseball.com.
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2 comments:
Any new info on Judy's injury? I have a feeling his arm is going to be needed in Cleveland soon
Yeah, answered the Judy question in the IPI Inbox piece today. Looks close to being activated here in the next few days.
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