NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Trio Of 2-Run Homers Fuel Vermont To 7-3 Win Over Tri-City

Published on September 2, 2012 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT --- Brett Vertigan, Matt Olson and Miguel Marte each hit a two-run homer as the Vermont Lake Monsters completed a three-game sweep of the Stedler Division champion Tri-City ValleyCats with a 7-3 in New York-Penn League victory on Sunday evening at historic Centennial Field. 

After Tri-City scored an unearned run in the top of the first inning, Vertigan lined a 1-2 pitch from ValleyCat starter Aaron West over the fence down the rightfield line for his first home run of the season and extended his hittting streak to 16 straight games, the third longest streak in the New York-Penn League this season.

Olson, the third first-round pick for Oakland in the 2012 draft to play for the Lake Monsters this season, smacked his two-run homer in the fourth deep over the rightfield fence in his second at bat with Vermont. Marte, who was 3-for-3, homered deep onto the Centennial soccer field for a two-run shot in the sixth inning for a 6-1 lead. All three homers came with a runner on base after a walk and it was the first three homer game for the Lake Monsters since September 3, 2011 against Tri-City. 

Vermont starter Andres Avila allowed just the one unearned run on six hits with no walks and six strikeouts over five innings for the win on Saturday. Avila (3-4) won each of his final three starts at Centennial Field, allowing no earned runs on 11 hits over 17 innings. The ValleyCats scored a pair of runs in the seventh inning off reliever Cecil Tanner, but Stuart Pudenz struckout three in two scoreless innings and Tucker Healy struckout the side in the ninth.

Reliever Omar Duran also had three strikeouts, along with three walks, in his only inning of work in the sixth. That included a strikeout of Dan Gulbransen for the first of the inning that set a new Lake Monsters team record for strikeouts in a season at 633, breaking the old record of 632 set in 2008. The five Vermont pitchers on Saturday combined for 15 strikeouts to increase the Lake Monsters league-leading total to 641 with three games remaining.

Jean Batista was 2-for-5 with two runs scored for Tri-City (50-23), while West (3-1) allowed two runs over two innings for the loss. ValleyCats reliever Lance Day gave up four runs on six hits with five strikeouts over five innings. Jacob Tanis was 2-for-5 for the Lake Monsters and is now 17-for-33 over his last 10 games as Vermont (32-41) won for the fourth time in the last five games. 

Vermont, which is now 22-13 at home, wrap up the 2012 season with a three-game series against the Aberdeen Ironbirds Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights beginning at Centennial Field with special start times of 6:05 pm. 

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