EL1 Akron RubberDucks

Aeros Media Notes

Published on May 1, 2009 under Eastern League (EL1)
Akron RubberDucks News Release


Aerodynamics...

Street Sweepers...

The Aeros finished off their first sweep of 2009 yesterday, handling Harrisburg 9-3 while pushing the Senators to their 12th straight loss. Akron finished the month 16-4, easily the best April record in franchise history, and the three straight wins marked Akron's first three-game sweep since June 17th-19th of last summer when the team took three in a row on the road from Bowie. RHP Jeanmar Gomez made his first Eastern League start and was very impressive in earning the win, limiting Harrisburg to just a run on two hits over five innings. He retired the last eight batters he faced in order and did not allow a hit to the final 11 men he faced. The Aeros scored four times in the fourth and tacked on five more runs in the final two innings to ice the game. In other action, Class AAA Scranton-Wilkes Barre also won yesterday to improve to 17-3 and stay a game in front of Akron in the race for the best record in professional baseball, while Class A Fort Wayne lost and fell to 15-5.

Anything You Can Do...1B Beau Mills and DH Carlos Santana became the first Aeros to hit back-to-back home runs this season, with Mills hammering the first pitch of the fourth inning into the bleachers in right field before Santana followed just three pitches later by banging his team-leading sixth of the season off the batter's eye in dead center. The blasts marked the first back-to-back jobs since Trevor Crowe and Josh Rodriguez on June 20th of last season at Reading. The dinger for Mills was his first of the season after he socked 20 for Kinston in 2008, while Santana tied Portland's Josh Reddick for the league lead. Four of Santana's six homers and 11 of his 19 RBI have come as a right-handed hitter this season, and the switch-hitter is also batting more than 60 points better from the right side than the left side (.296 to .235).

Ohio Rivero...SS Carlos Rivero removed any drama still existent in the late going with his final two at-bats yesterday, delivering a two-run double in the seventh and a three-run homer in the eighth to finish with five RBI, a season-high for any Aeros hitter. Rivero finished 2-5 for his third multi-hit game of the season, and his two big hits both came with two strikes in the count. The five RBI were Rivero's most since he played for Class A Lake County and belted two home runs and drove in six against Lexington May 8th of 2007. Coupled with the home runs from Mills and Santana, the Aeros also set a new season-high with three bombs in the game and pounded out a season-high 14 hits for the second straight game.

We Must Protect This House...The Aeros finished their eight-game homestand 6-2, with the offense scoring four runs or more in six of those contests. Akron has now climbed to seventh in the EL with a .248 team batting average, helped greatly by the efforts of Mickey Hall (.444), Jerad Head (.381), and Jose Constanza (.375) on the homestand.

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