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Potomac Pounds Salem 10-3

Published on September 2, 2010 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Salem RidgeYaks News Release


Salem, VA (September 2, 2010)- Jamar Walton's three-run home run in the top of the fourth broke a 1-1 tie, and the Potomac Nationals scored nine of the game's final 11 runs in a 10-3 rout of the Salem Red Sox Thursday night at Lewis-Gale Field. The loss, matched with Kinston's 5-3 extra inning victory over Frederick, dropped Salem's elimination number to just one with six games remaining in the regular season.

Potomac jumped on top early with an RBI single by Sean Rooney in the first off Salem starter Brock Huntzinger, but the Sox responded with one of their own in the second. After Will Middlebrooks reached on an error, Ryan Dent and Drew Hedman smacked back-to-back singles to load the bases for Ronald Bermudez. The Sox center fielder then tapped a swinging bunt back to the pitcher Evan Bronson who overthrew the catcher Rooney, allowing Middlebrooks to slide under the tag with the game's tying run. Luis Segovia and Mitch Dening struck out with the bases loaded, though, to end the threat.

Aside from the theatrical second, the Sox could not get anything going against Bronson. The lefthander, who was just called up from Low-A Hagerstown, fired 6.1 innings of four-hit ball, allowing just one earned run while striking out four in his return to the Carolina League.

Huntzinger didn't fare as well, dropping to 7-8 on the season in what could be his last start for the Sox in 2010. The righthander gave up six runs on 10 hits in 5.1 innings, the first time in the last five starts that Huntzinger didn't make it past the sixth inning.

The Nats expanded upon the three-run cushion with four tallies in the sixth and two more in the seventh. Derek Norris broke the game open with a two-out, two-RBI double in the sixth off reliever Kyle Fernandes that gave Potomac a 7-1 lead. Newly crowned Carolina League MVP Tyler Moore singled two batters later to drive in Norris and increased the lead to seven. Norris slapped another RBI double an inning later, driving in Sean Nicol, who had previously doubled home Jose Lozada to give the P-Nats a 10-1 cushion.

The lone bright moment in an otherwise dreary night was when utility infielder Luis Segovia launched a two-run shot deep over the left field wall in the bottom of the seventh to make it 7-3. Five separate Red Sox batters accounted for Salem's five hits, with Segovia's homer being the lone extra-base hit. Segovia's blast was just his second of the season and his first since May 8 at Winston-Salem.

Norris, Moore and Walton led the balanced Potomac attack with three hits apiece. The Nationals recorded 16 hits on the night, five of which went for extra bases. Walton and Norris each had three RBI, while Nicol recorded two RBI.

Having lost eight of their last 10, the Sox look to break the skid on Friday Night at Lewis-Gale Field in the series finale against the Nats. Stolmy Pimentel is scheduled to take the bump for the final time in 2010 against Potomac's Danny Rosenbaum. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05.

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