May 9 Notes

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The Bats (12-19) took on the Norfolk Tides (13-17) in game two Tuesday night at Louisville Slugger Field. The Bats looking to come back from last night's loss, evened the series with a 3-2 win.

The Bats started right-hander Asher Wojciechowski (1-0, 0.92). Wojciechowski, receiving his first win of the season, finished his night after six pitched innings, allowing five hits, one home run, and one walk.

The Tides started with the righty Tyler Wilson (0-2, 4.50) on the mound. Wilson pitched seven innings, giving up nine hits, three runs, one home run, and two walks.

A Mike Yastrzemski home run early in the second put the Tides on top, 1-0. The Bats quickly answered in the bottom half after a Sebastian Elizalde double put him on base and a Chad Wallach double to center field brought him home, evening it at one.

 A wild pitch by Tyler Wilson put Wallach to third, and a Beau Amaral single scored Wallach, giving the Bats their second run of the game. Louisville ended the second inning leading 2-1, their first lead in 20 straight innings.

The bottom of the fourth saw the Bats increase their lead, 3-1, courtesy of a Wallach homer to left field. His second home run of the season gave the Bats an insurance run, increasing their lead to 3-1.

The Tides Yastrzemski continued to plague the Bats with a double to right field in the top of the seventh. Later in the inning, a Paul Janish sacrifice fly plated Yastrzemski from third, cutting the Bats lead to a single run, 3-2.

The Tides looked to mount a comeback in the ninth with a Yastrzemski two-out single, but Bats reliever Kevin Shackelford struck out the next batter to end the game and secure his fourth save of the season. 

Adam Pohl

Having seen a six-run lead dissipate, Aderlin Rodriguez took things into his own hands on Tuesday evening in Reading. He turned a double play to end the eighth inning and then lead off the ninth inning with a line drive home run to left liufting Bowie to a dramatic 7-6 win.

 

Prior to Rodriguez’s sixth home run of the year, the momentum was squarely with Reading prior. The Baysox had seen a 6-0 lead whittle away as Reading tied the game at 6-apiece in the seventh inning. There was still a bases loaded jam with only one out to encounter.

 

Garrett Cleavinger battled from 3-0 down in the count for a huge strikeout of Reading’s Mitch Walding for the second out. And after Bobby Bundy entered to face pinch-hitter Jiandido Tromp, a ball that scooted away from catcher Yermin Mercedes turned into a big out at the plate keeping Bowie tied at 6-apiece.

 

 

The Baysox had brought the minimum nine hitters to the plate in the first three innings. They would bring ten to the plate in the fourth inning alone. DJ Stewart led off the frame with a walk in a seven pitch at-bat, followed by singles by Adrian Marin and Austin Wynns. Garabez Rosa then hit a line drive to center field that was dropped and the flood gates were open. All-in-all, six runs scored in the frame.

 

Bobby Bundy got the win working 1 and 1/3^rd inning of relief. Tim Berry worked a 1-2-3 ninth inning for his second save of the season. Erick Salcedo was 2-for-3 with a walk and two RBI’s in the game.

 

Geoff Arnold

 

The Frederick Keys (17-15) scored five times in the sixth inning to come back and defeat the Down East Wood Ducks (13-19) 8-4 on Tuesday night at Nymeo Field. The Keys used just five hits to score their eight runs.

 

The Wood Ducks got on the board in the initial inning. Chuck Moorman singled Brallan Perez in from third, but Ofelky Peralta got out of a second and third jam with help from his center fielder Austin Hays. Michael O’Neill hit a fly ball to shallow center field, which Hays caught and promptly threw home to cut down Luis La O trying to score and end the inning.

 

Down East tacked on a run in the third on a Ladarious Clark line drive home run to left field, making it 2-0. The Keys would get that run back in the bottom of the fourth, when Steve Laurino drove in Randolph Gassaway with a single.

 

Peralta’s night was cut short after surrendering an RBI double to Josh Morgan in the sixth inning, which pushed the Wood Ducks lead to two. The Keys starter lasted 5.1 innings, giving up six hits, three runs (two earned). He walked three and struck out three.

 

Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth, Alex Murphy was hit by a pitch for the second time in the ballgame to get things going for the Keys against Pedro Payano. Ademar Rifaela followed with a walk, and Laurino was the second hit by pitch victim in the inning to load the bases. The Keys then got within a run when Stuart Levy added an RBI single to knock Payano out of the ballgame.

 

Frederick was not done yet. A wild pitch from Tyler Davis allowed Rifaela to score, and Ricardo Andujar walked to load the bases again. Stevie Wilkerson then chopped one through the right side to score Levy and Andujar, and give the Keys a 6-3 lead. It was the third five-run inning for the team this year.

 

The visitors threatened in the seventh, after Franderlin Romero loaded the bases with nobody out. He gave way to Tanner Chleborad, who got Moorman to ground out to third. A run did score, but an O’Neill double play promptly ended the threat, and kept it a two-run lead for the Keys.

 

Frederick pushed across a couple of more insurance runs in the seventh inning. Gassaway led off with a double to deep left field, and Murphy was hit by a pitch for the third straight plate appearance. Rifaela reached base on a fielder’s choice, and stole second base. A throwing error from catcher Josh Morgan allowed Gassaway to score, and Rifaela would come home on a Laurino sacrifice fly, to make it 8-4.

 

On the night, Wood Ducks pitchers combined to plunk five Keys batters while walking four.

 

Romero (1-3) earned the win for the Keys. He tossed 0.2 of an inning and gave up one run. Payano (0-2) suffered the loss, surrendering five runs on three hits in 5.1 frames. Chleborad worked three scoreless innings to earn the save.

 

 

[sportsfan8703]

Good to see Wilson go down and have a good start. The MILB teams are all basically around .500 which is a good thing compared to the beginning of the season. What to make of Anderlin Rodriguez?  He's mashing in Bowie now. Are Drew Dosch and Adrian Marin finally becoming what we hoped for?

Overall the system looks much deeper than in previous years.  Bowie throws out a pretty good lineup nightly.