IL1 Louisville Bats

Season High 17 Hits Lead to Bats 10-0 Win

Published on May 23, 2013 under International League (IL1)
Louisville Bats News Release


LOUISVILLE, Ky - Travel issues combined with facing Tony Cingrani left the Pawtucket Red Sox (27-20) ripe for a loss which the Louisville Bats (24-23) were happy to hand out in a 10-0 drubbing Thursday night. Cingrani (W, 2-0) was making his first start since being recalled from the Bats parent club the Cincinnati Reds.

The Bats loaded up the stat sheet, putting the leadoff batter on base each of the first four innings, batting around the lineup in the second and scoring 10 runs on a season-high 17 hits while allowing only 7 hits.

Top Reds prospect Billy Hamilton got it started with a single in the first, eventually getting to second on a groundball. He then stole third, his league leading 24th stolen base. After a 1-0 pitch to Felix Perez, Hamilton took off for third base as the catcher was returning the ball to the mound. Perez then singled for his team leading 29th RBI.

Louisville hit up Pawtucket starter Terry Doyle (L, 3-4) in the second inning, sending everyone to the plate. Three straight singles from Mike Hessman, Emmanuel Burriss and Nevin Ashley loaded the bases for Josh Fellhauer who then brought everyone home with a bag clearing double. Hamilton singled for the second straight inning, scoring Fellhauer. Neftali Soto singled with one out to score Hamilton, giving the Bats a 6-0 lead.

Cingrani was less dominating than Opening Night but turned in a quality performance nonetheless, going five innings allowing two hits, striking out five and walking four. Cingrani came down from MLB-Cincinnati where he went 2-0 with a 3.27era.

The Bats added solo runs in the third and fourth innings to bring their lead to 8-0. Hessman walked to leadoff the third and scored three batters later on a Fellhauer sacrifice fly. It gave Fellhauer, who finished the night 2-for-4 with a run scored his fourth RBI of the night, his first 4-RBI game in Triple-A.

Henry Rodriguez led off the fourth with a single and scored on a Perez single following a Soto walk. Although it would be his last inning, Doyle settled down and got the next three Louisville players to fly out and keep from doing any more damage. Doyle finished the night pitching four innings, giving up 11 hits and eight runs with no strikeouts.

Louisville relievers Mike MacDougal, Jose Diaz and Nick Christiani secured the shutout, Louisville's third of the season. The bullpen trio gave up five hits and struckout five in four innings of work. Louisville struckout 10 PawSox all together.

Louisville scored two runs with two outs in the eighth, bringing their total to 10. Ashley walked to open the seventh and scored on a Rodriguez double. H-Rod then scored after Soto hit a grounder to third base which was booted into foul territory giving Pawtucket their lone error of the night.

Pawtucket put infielder Jonathon Diaz on the mound in the eighth sporting an 80mph fastball and a knuckleball. Diaz gave up a single and double but no runs.

The Bats are a game over .500 for the first time in over a month and committed no errors for the seventh time in eight games. Coming into the game, the Bats had collected 16 hits this season from the DH spot, eight of those coming from Perez. Perez was in the DH spot tonight and remained red-hot, going 3-for-5 with three RBI's bringing his team leading total to 31. Six Louisville players had multi-hit games, Denis Phipps being the only Bats player to not collect a hit.

Game two of the series is at 6:35pm tomorrow night with Louisville's RHP Armando Galarraga (2-2, 2.37) facing off against the PawSox RHP Alfredo Aceves (2-1, 3.13).

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