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Five Monsters Pitchers combine to shut out Hudson Valley

September 1, 2017 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY --- Five Vermont pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout, while Lana Akau and James Terrell had a pair of two-out RBI base hits in the top of the seventh inning to give the Lake Monsters a 2-0 victory over the Hudson Valley Renegades in New York-Penn League action Thursday night at Dutchess Stadium.

The game was scoreless until the seventh when Lana Akau fouled off three straight two-out, 3-2 pitches before lining a single to center that scored Jesus Lage, who was running on the pitch, all the way from first base with the first run of the game. Then after a walk to Will Toffey, James Terrell hit a ground-rule double to right center scoring Akau from second base.

Starter Parker Dunshee tossed the first three scoreless innings and has now gone 38 1/3 innings without allowing a run this season for the Lake Monsters in his 12 outings. Dunshee did allow two hits and a walk in the second inning, but a Oscar Rojas leadoff single was erased on a strikeout/caught stealing.

After a two-out walk to Issac Bernard, Bill Pujols got the Rengades second hit of the inning, but it would be Hudson Valley's final hit of the game. Dunshee got Deion Tansel to flyout to end the second and started a stretch of 19 straight Renegades retired in order before a leadoff walk in the ninth inning.

Brian Howard (2-1) followed Dunshee to start the fourth inning and retired all nine batters he faced with two strikeouts over his three scoreless innings. Howard has retired 43 of the last 48 batters he has faced over his last five appearances, allowing just three hits with one walk and 14 strikeouts over 15 scoreless innings.

After Branden Kelliher's two perfect innings in the seventh and eighth, Logan Salow quickly erased the ninth-inning leadoff walk by inducing a 5-4-3 double play. Then after Salow hit Brendan McKay with a pitch, Jeferson Mejia came on to retire Zacrey Law on a flyball to center to earn his first save and become the 11th different Vermont reliever to record a save this season.

Toffey, Logan Farrar and Aaron Arruda each had two hits for Vermont, while the combined two-hitter marked the Lake Monsters seventh shutout victory of the year and lowered Vermont's team ERA to a season-best 3.04 overall. Renegades starter Tobias Myers scattered five hits over five scoreless innings with one walk and seven strikeouts, while Andrew Gist (3-1) gave up the two seventh-inning runs to take the loss for Hudson Valley (40-29).

Vermont (39-30) now leads the Stedler Division by four games over the Connecticut Tigers (34-33) and needs any combination of four Vermont wins or Connecticut losses to clinch its first playoff appearance since 2011. The Lake Monsters have seven games remaining in the regular-season, including the second of the three-game series at Hudson Valley Friday at 7:05 pm.

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