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Dash vs. Salem Sox - Game Notes - August 15, 2013

August 15, 2013 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Winston-Salem Dash News Release


DASH FORCE EXTRAS, FALL BY ONE Winston-Salem scored three in the eighth inning to knot Wednesday's series opener, but Salem emerged with a 5-4, 10-inning victory at BB&T Ballpark. Chris Curley's two-run double pulled the Dash within one and capped his three-RBI evening. He scored on a Courtney Hawkins run-scoring double later in the eighth to tie the game. However, Salem strung together four consecutive two-out singles in the 10th against Brandon Hardin to take the lead for good.

CURLING TOWARD THE TOP Dash infielder Chris Curley pushed his Carolina League-leading RBI total to 88 with his eighth effort of three or more RBIs Wednesday. Curley, who also paces the CL with 22 home runs, has nine more RBIs than Salem's Keury De La Cruz for the top spot, while he trails only Lancaster's Andrew Aplin (98) and St. Lucie's Dustin Lawley (89) among all High-A hitters. In addition, Curley leads the Carolina League in hits (135), runs scored (81) and total bases (229).

ROCKY ROAD Winston-Salem is buried in its roughest stretch of baseball in more than two years. The Dash have lost eight times over a nine-game stretch for the first time since April 27 to May May 5 of 2011. Winston has not gone 1-9 over any 10-game period since at least 2004. The Dash also hope to avoid their first losing streak longer than four games since August 16-20, 2011. Over their last nine games, the Dash have suffered two four-game skids. Before this nine-day slump, 720 days had passed since the club's last such skid.

HOMEY FEELING Since BB&T Ballpark opened prior to the 2010 season, Winston-Salem boasts the third-best home record in all of Minor League Baseball (166-106, .610). However, the Dash have lost three straight home tilts dating back to August 6, which is one shy of the longest skid for the Dash at BB&T Ballpark. The Dash dropped four consecutive home games from May 18-21, 2011.

COSE IS COASTING Dash starter Jake Cose has tossed 14 straight scoreless innings over his last two outings, which represent the only two times in his minor league career that he has worked seven frames and not allowed a run. Cose improved from a 7.09 earned run average in June, his first month in the Carolina League, to a 3.93 mark in July. After allowing 12 runs over nine innings in his first two efforts against Salem, Cose scattered just three hits over seven frames five days ago in a win over the Red Sox in the Roanoke Valley.

ONE SHY OF A DOZEN Winston-Salem leads the Carolina League in total runs (624) and runs per game (5.2), but the squad has mustered only 38 runs over its last 11 games, during which the Dash own a 2-9 record. During this slump, the Dash have not recorded more than five runs in any game, which is the longest such streak since 2009. In the first season of the Dash era, Winston-Salem failed to surpass the six-run mark for 23 consecutive games from July 29 to August 22.

ATOP MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Dash infielder Micah Johnson paces all minor league players with 79 stolen bases and 102 runs scored. Within the stolen base category, Travis Jankowski of Lake Elsinore (High-A, San Diego) sits in second with 71. After a two-tally effort Wednesday, Johnson now sits two runs ahead of fellow White Sox farmhand Marcus Semien. Semien became the second minor leaguer to reach the century mark with his 100th run in Triple-A Charlotte's come-from-behind win at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre last night.

DASH DOTS For the first time in their last seven games, the Dash did not commit an error Wednesday... Grant Buckner went 3-for-4 with a run scored Wednesday after mustering just two hits in his previous 26 at-bats...Jason Van Skike worked four and a third shutout frames, which marks the longest relief effort by a Dash hurler in 2013.

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