Game Recap 4/28: Good Cook-ing Leads To Captains Win

Captains Have Something Good Cook-ing In Win

The Lake County Captains improved to 15-5 on the year with a 4-1 win on Wednesday behind the young, right arm of Clayton Cook.

Cook put forth his best outing of the season to date going six shutout innings and allowed just three hits, two walks and struck out two batters. He was credited with the win, his first for the Captains, and he is now 1-2 with a 3.79 ERA on the season.

The Captains would get all the offense they would need in the first inning when they plated two runs off a Jeremie Tice RBI double and then a passed ball. In the third inning Tice tallied another RBI with a groundout, and the Captains scoring was finished in the 5th on a Bo Greenwell RBI single.

The Captains only managed four hits in the contest, and we led by Greenwell who went 2-for-3 with an RBI and Tice who went 1-for-4 with a double and two RBI. Rob Bryson pitched two innings of hitless-shutout relief with no walks and three strikeouts. In the 9th the shutout was lost went Antwonie Hubbard allowed a run in his one inning of work, his first run allowed in five games this year covering 10.2 innings.

Trey Haley will get the ball for the Captains on Thursday against Dayton. Game time is 7pm.

Clippers Beat Knights Again

Chris Gimenez came off the bench for the Clippers Wednesday afternoon at Huntington Park, and his double and two-run home run proved to be the difference in a 4-2 victory over the Charlotte Knights.

The teams exchanged runs in the third inning and Columbus added another in the fifth, when Gimenez scored on Shelly Duncan's double. Gimenez homered an inning later to put the Clippers up by three.

Josh Tomlin (2-1) made his second start of the year (in place of the injured Scott Lewis), going five innings to get the victory. Jeremy Sowers, who took Lewis' spot on the roster, threw two scoreless innings in relief for the Clippers.

Steven Wright gave up a solo homer to Charlotte's Rob Hudson in the eighth inning, but Saul Rivera closed the door in the ninth to pick up his third save of the season. The double play ball aided Columbus, as Charlotte grounded into four of them on the day.

Game three of the four game set starts Thursday night at 6:35, with Carlos Carrasco getting the ball for Columbus. The game will be carried live on SportsTime Ohio.

Aeros Blasted Again By Curve

The Altoona Curve rattled off 10 runs on 15 hits in their, 10-2, win over Akron. Altoona sent nine men to the plate in the fourth inning and pounded out six runs on six hits to put the game out of reach.

Akron briefly led the game for half an inning when they scored in the top of the first after an RBI single by Jared Goedert.

Altoona took the lead and never gave it back in the third against Akron starter Zach Putnam (2-1). Chase d’Arnaud started the inning with a single and then came around on a Jim Negrych triple to put the Curve in the lead, 2-1. Mercer followed the triple with a groundout that scored Negrych from third and after three innings, Altoona led, 3-1.

The Aeros pulled within one in the fourth when Carlos Rivero hit into a fielder’s choice to score Matt McBride but they would score no further as the next seven runs of the game belonged to Altoona.

Shelby Ford doubled to start the big fourth and came around to touch home plate when Mercer doubled him in four batters later. Mercer’s double also drove in d’Arnaud and it gave the third baseman his second and third RBIs of the game. The inning rolled on with another RBI single by Durham and a bases-clearing, two-RBI triple by Alex Presley. Josh Harrison drove in the final run of the inning when he singled in Presley to widen the lead to 9-2.

Putnam finished the day going 3.1 innings and allowing seven runs on nine hits, two walks and had three strikeouts. The lone bright spot of the day was Goedert who finished the day 3-for-4 with an RBI.

After their first off day of the season Thursday, the Aeros return to Canal Park to kick off a seven game homestand on Friday night at 7:05 p.m. The Binghamton Mets make their first appearance of 2010 at Canal Park, sending Brad Holt (0-1, 4.50 ERA) to the mound against lefty Ryan Edell (0-1, 5.54 ERA) for the home team.

K-Tribe Beats Lynchburg 5-3

Kinston scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to come back and beat Lynchburg 5-3 Wednesday afternoon at Historic Grainger Stadium.

The game was scoreless through the first five frames as Kinston starter T.J. House pitched great for the K-Tribe. In the sixth inning, House allowed a leadoff walk to Lynchburg’s Justin Reed, who then stole second base. Josh Fellhauer then delivered an RBI single to give the Hillcats a 1-0 lead and House was removed from the game. House gave up just three hits and one earned run in five innings of work, striking out six and walking two in the no decision. Kinston reliever Travis Turek then took over, coaxing a double play out of Dave Sappelt, but giving up a solo home run to Neftali Soto.

With Lynchburg up 2-0 going into the bottom of the eighth inning, Kinston’s bats finally came to life. The inning started with a leadoff double from Jason Kipnis. After a walk to Nate Recknagel, Lynchburg reliever Andrew Bowman gave up a bases clearing triple to Abner Abreu, tying the score at two. Lynchburg went to the pen again and pulled out Scott Gaffney, who promptly walked Kyle Bellows. Kinston’s Richard Martinez then delivered the winning blow, a down the line double that scored both Abreu and Bellows. Martinez was driven in later in the inning with an RBI single from Adam Davis. The K-Tribe ended the frame with five runs on four hits and two walks. Kinston had been held to just four hits (all singles) coming into the bottom of the eighth inning. Karexon Sanchez, Kipnis and Abreu each had two hits for the K-Tribe.

Turek (1-1) picked up the win for Kinston, giving up just one hit in three innings of relief. Steve Smith picked up his Carolina League leading fifth save of the season. Bowman (0-1) took the loss for Lynchburg.

The two teams meet for the final game of a three game series Thursday night at 7pm in Kinston. Joey Mahalic (1-0, 3.07) will be on the hill for the K-Tribe.

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