SAL1 Lexington Legends

Ace Lefty Braddock Stumps Legends

Published on April 25, 2007 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Lexington Legends News Release


The Lexington Legends returned to Applebee's Park on Wednesday night and were greeted rudely by the first place West Virginia Power. Zach Braddock started and pitched six strong innings for the visiting Power, and notched his second victory in three starts. Braddock (2-0), who had not given up a run in 13 innings prior to this game, allowed one run on four hits. He struck out eight and did not walk a batter. The Legends fell to the Power, 7-1. It was West Virginia's 12th consecutive win.

Having already allowed two runs to cross the plate, Lexington starter Bryan Hallberg pitched himself into a jam in the fifth. He yielded two one-out singles to Brent Brewer and Chuck Caufield, which he followed with back-to-back walks to Andy Bouchie and Michael Brantley to load the bases and plate a run. He was then lifted in favor of Cesar Mayora, who got a short fly ball from Kenny Holmberg for the second out. However, Mayora wasn't out of trouble yet. A wild pitch advanced the runners, bringing Caufield home, and Steve Chapman doubled to clear the bases. All of the runs were charged to Hallberg (1-1), who allowed six to score in his four and one-third innings of work.

Lexington finally managed to get on the board in the sixth. Nick Moresi led off with a fly ball that hit high off the batters' eye in center. He legged out a stand-up triple, his first of the year, as a result of the hit. Cesar Quintero followed with a sharp base hit to left, and the Legends made the score 6-1.

A five-run deficit was as close as the home team would get for the rest of the game. West Virginia added a run on Brantley's sacrifice fly in the seventh, and Alex Periard shut the door with three scoreless innings to earn his second save.

David Qualben provided two perfect innings in mop-up duty for the Legends. He struck out two of the six batters he faced.

The Legends tried to rally late when a pair of errors by Power infielders helped load the bases with one out in the eighth. Jordan Parraz grounded into a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.

Game two of the four-game set starts tomorrow at 7:05 p.m. Polin Trinidad (1-2, 10.32) will face Mike Ramlow (1-1, 6.39). It will be a Thirsty Thursday, and fans can compete to win a date with Legends front office employee Seth Poteat.

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