Hillcats Game Notes
Published on May 30, 2008 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Hill City Howlers News Release
THE HILLCATS: Lynchburg earned a four-game series split with Potomac with a 10-9 win on Thursday night in Woodbridge, VA...The Hillcats scored 23 runs in the final two games of the series and finished their seven-game road trip with back-to-back wins over the Northern Division leader...The Cats just wrapped up a stretch of 15-out-of-18 away from the Hill City and they begin a seven-game homestand tonight...
VS. WILMINGTON: The Hillcats went just 3-16 against.the Blue Rocks in 2007...That included two 4-game sweeps and two 3-game sweeps at the hands of the Rocks...Wilmington holds the all-time advantage in the series 155-110 and are 74-57 against Lynchburg at City Stadium...This season the Rocks are 4-2 against the Cats and 1-2 in the Hill City...Last weekend Wilmington outscored Lynchburg 26-3 in a three-game sweep of the Cats...
RIGHT START: SS Brian Friday has been thriving in the lead-off spot this season, and in particular in his first plate appearance of the game...In the last 29 games Friday has gotten aboard 15 times and scored 11 of those times he got on...In those plate appearances Friday is 12-for-26 (.462) with four doubles, two walks and a hit-by-pitch...On the season Friday is batting .328-1-17 with 13 doubles and three triples when batting at the top of the order...
CLOSING DEBUT: Last night RHP Moises Robles became the third Hillcats pitcher this year to collect a save in his Advanced-A debut with Lynchburg...Adam Simon accomplished the feat on April 25 at Kinston when he tossed four scoreless innings to earn the save and Matt McSwain worked an inning and 2/3 scoreless to pick up the save two days later in Kinston...It was the seventh save of the year in as many opportunities (other six in Hickory) for Robles and the 24th of his professional career...
ACCLAMATION ACCOMPLISHED: 2B Angel Gonzalez and 3B Jim Negrych are both playing a position this season they have never played before this season and SS Brian Friday is playing in his first full season at the professional level...In the first 31 games of the season those three combined for 25 errors (an error committed in 81% of games played)...Since then the three have commited just three errors combined in 22 games (an error committed in 14% of games played)...
LEERY OF LEFTIES: The Hillcats are 1-9 this season when a lefthander starts against them and 19-24 when a righty starts for their opponent...Tonight's starting pitcher for Wilmington, LHP Everett Teaford, is 2-0 against the Cats this year and has not allowed an earned run in 11 and 2/3 innings pitched... STOP THE SKIDS: The victory on Wednesday night snapped a season-high five-game losing streak, a 14-game skid to the Nationals, a nine-game losing streak at Pfitzner Stadium, it gave the Hillcats their first win on their current seven-game road trip and it stopped a streak of four losses in a row for Cats starter Jared Hughes...The Hillcats had lost 15 out of 18 and were a season-high 15 games under .500...
QUALITY START: Wednesday night RHP Jared Hughes gave the Hillcats their first quality start in 19 games when he allowed just two earned runs in seven innings of work...LHP Daniel Moskos was the last Cat to accomplish the feat when he pitched six and 2/3 innings of scoreless baseball on May 8th and that was also the last time a Cats starter earned a win...The start by Moskos was the longest by a Lynchburg starter prior to last night...The Hillcats now have four quality starts on the year, two by Hughes...
BACK TO THE K'S: Hughes matched a career-high with eight strikeouts last night in his longest and best start of the season...Prior to last night the righthander had not struckout more than three in a start all season...Last year he led all Pirate farmhands in strikeouts during the 2007 campaign with 109 in 145.1 ip and struckout eight on two separate occasions...
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