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Price defeats old team as Indians sweep Red Sox

August 9, 2009 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Salem Red Sox News Release


Kinston, NC (August 9, 2009) - Playing under the daylight for the first time since June 21 was not a panacea for Salem's recent woes. Regardless of the start time, the midsummer swoon was extended as the Kinston Indians took down the Red Sox 6-3 on Sunday afternoon to sweep the four-game set at Grainger Stadium. Facing a friend and former teammate, the Red Sox scored a couple early tallies off Kinston starter Bryan Price before the righthander settled down and tossed six quality innings. Price improved to 2-0 since being traded as a part of the Victor Martinez deal and the Indians won their sixth straight, their longest streak since mid-August 2008. Kinston provided plenty of run support behind Price with a huge fourth inning, batting around and scoring five times off Salem starter Stephen Fife, who suffered his first Carolina League loss.

After scoring just two runs in the first three games of the series, the Red Sox were able to plate a pair in the first three innings on Sunday. Mike Jones cracked a two-out single up the middle to plate Jon Hee from second in the top of the first, and Che-Hsuan Lin led off the third inning with a solo homer to deep left field. Lin's team-leading seventh dinger of the year propelled the Red Sox to a 2-0 lead which they maintained until the fourth.

Fife retired eight of the first nine batters he faced and faced the minimum through three scoreless innings, but the K-Tribe took advantage of some uncharacteristic wildness from Fife in the fourth. The Indians loaded the bases thanks to two walks and a single with nobody out. Ole Sheldon drove in one with a liner single to left, and Doug Pickens gave Kinston a 3-2 lead with another bases-loaded hit to shallow right. After consecutive strikeouts of Adam Davis and Roman Pena, Kyle Haines doubled over the outstretched glove of David Mailman in left field to make it 4-2 and put two in scoring position with two outs. Richard Martinez belted a single to right to score one more, but Chih-Hsien Chiang fired a strike to the plate and Will Vazquez absorbed a crushing collision to tag out Haines and end the inning.

Salem added a run on Jon Hee's RBI grounder that plated Kris Negron in the seventh to cut the score to 5-3, but Kinston's Davis cracked a solo homer off Derrick Loop in the last of the eighth to inch the advantage back to three. Kyle Landis struck out a pair in a scoreless ninth to preserve the victory and earn his third save of the season.

Loop and Jason Rice combined to strike out nine Indians in four innings out of the Red Sox bullpen, but once again the offense remained unthreatening. Overall, the Indians outscored the Red Sox 24-5 in the four-game sweep, their first such sweep since they took four straight from the Salem Avalanche last August.

Salem outhit Kinston 9-8, but eight of the nine hits were singles. Salem registered just two extra-base hits in the series and are currently mired in a stretch of two extra-base hits in their last 44 innings.

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