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July 23, 2010 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Lynchburg Hillcats News Release


LYNCHBURG HILLCATS (10-16, 39-57) vs. SALEM RED SOX (13-13, 55-41)

July 23rd, 2010 -- 7:05 PM

Calvin Falwell Field @ Lynchburg City Stadium

RHP Lance Janke (3-7, 6.28) vs. RHP Miguel Gonzalez (3-2, 5.40)

THE HILLCATS: Last night Lynchburg dropped the series opener of a four-game series with Salem by a final of 5-1 at City Stadium...The Hillcats have now lost four of their last five games...Tonight is the second game of the set against Salem and the fifth contest of a seven-game homestand...

VS. SALEM: The Hillcats are 6-8 against the Red Sox thus far this season and are 4-3 at City Stadium...The Cats went 10-10 against the Sox in the 460 series last season and were 5-5 at Lewis Gale Field...In the post-season the Cats swept the Sox three games to none in the Mills Cup Championship...In the all-time series Salem leads 162-143 during the regular season...The last time the Sox came to town the Cats swept the three-game series, which is still the lone sweep of the season for the Green & Gold...

HOME IS WHERE THE HEARTACHE IS: Lynchburg has started this homestand 1-3 and has now lost nine of their last ten games at Calvin Falwell Field...The Hillcats went 0-6 on their last homestand and have gone from two games over .500 to six games under at home...

NOT SO GRAND: Last night Salem took the lead for good with a grand slam by OF Alex Hassan in the top of the third inning...It is the second time this season the Hillcats have let up a grand salami, both times it has come at the hands of their 460 rivals...Lynchburg has hit a pair of grand slams, one by OF Kyle Day and the other by UTIL Neftali Soto...

HE DRANK YOUR MILKSHAKE: OF Denis Phipps went 1-for-3 last night with a home run, an RBI, run and a walk...It marked the third straight game that he has homered in, becoming the first Hillcat to accomplish the feat this season...On the homestand the new Hillcats has gone 7-for-15 (.467) with two doubles, a triple, three home runs, eight RBI and five runs scored in four games...In eight games with Lynchburg since coming down from Double-A Carolina the outfielder is batting .367 (11-for-30) with four home runs and ten RBI...

WORKING OVERTIME: LHP Donnie Joseph walked three batters, uncorked two wild pitches, got charged with three runs (two earned) and did not record an out Wednesday night in taking his third loss of the season...It was the first time with the Hillcats the lefty has worked on back-to-back nights and it was the first time he has failed to retire a batter...He did go back-to-back in outings twice while with Dayton earlier this season and he did not allow a run in either of those appearances...Joseph has two of his three losses against Frederick, his only blown save and is posting a 5.40 ERA against the Keys compared to a 1.06 ERA (two earned runs in 17 innings) against the rest of the league...

A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD: RHP Jordan Hotchkiss pitched five scoreless innings Tuesday night and left in line for his seventh victory of the season...The right-hander has not given up a run in his last two starts (12 innings)...The converted reliever leads the Carolina League in ERA (2.20), WHIP (0.99) and is second in batting average against (.205)...

AND WE'LL BE FREE: RHP Justin Freeman worked an and 1/3 scoreless innings Wednesday night and all four outs he recorded were via the strike out...He has now thrown 15 and 1/3 consecutive scoreless frames and over those 12 games his ERA has dropped from 4.60 to 3.09...He has now tied the longest scoreless streak by a Hillcat this season (RHP Nick Christiani, 5/11-6/8)...The right-hander is first in the league in games pitched (38), tied for third in games finished (25), tied for second in holds (7), first in fewest walks per nine innings (1.16) and third in fewest base runners per nine innings amongst relievers (9.45)...Freeman is also second on the team with six saves...In April his ERA was 7.88, in May it was 3.07, in June it dropped to 2.40 and so far in July he has not given up a run in eight appearances out of the pen...

BOW AND ARROW: LHP Andrew Bowman threw two and 2/3 innings of scoreless relief last night...He has now thrown six straight scoreless appearances (ten innings) and hasn't surrendered a run in nine of his last ten outings...His ERA has dropped from 6.90 to 5.08 over that time...

KNIGHT AND DAY: OF Kyle Day went 1-for-4 with run scored and a walk Wednesday night and has now hit in a season-high eight straight games...He has hit in 16 of his last 18 games and over that time he is 24-for-60 (.400) with three doubles, a triple, a grand slam, 11 RBI, nine runs scored, six walks and three steals...In those 18 contests Day has raised his average from .226 to .271...

TONIGHT'S OPPOSING PITCHER: RHP Miguel Gonzalez was acquired by the Red Sox in the Rule 5 draft in 2008 from the Angels...He spent six season in the Angels system, pitching with Double-A Arkansas his final year with them...That season he went 8-4 with a 3.37 ERA with one save in 30 games (19 starts) with the Travelers...He missed 2008 and 2009 with injuries and returned this season with Salem...He has gone 3-2 with a 5.40 ERA in nine games (eight starts) with the Red Sox...His first appearance of the season and his first game pitched since 2007 came against Lynchburg on June 1st when he allowed one run in three innings of work...That is his only relief appearance of the season...


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