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Aeros Swept in Doubleheader Friday Night

Published on May 15, 2010 under Eastern League (EL1)
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The Akron Aeros started their four game homestand with a twi-night doubleheader against the Reading Phillies. First pitch came at 6:05 before a crowd of 5,215 fans at Canal Park on Friday night. The game featured a pitching match-up of Aeros pitcher Eric Berger (0-1, 12.54 ERA) vs. Yohan Flande (1-3, 2.80 ERA).

The game started out with back to back singles for the Phillies by CF Quintin Berry to left, and a line drive to center by LF Michael Spidale before the nice 4-6-3 double play started by second baseman Cord Phelps. Berry scored on a Tagg Bozied double his 12th of the year taking the early 1-0 lead. The Phillies added to their lead on a Quintin Berry doubled bringing in Ozzie Chavez making the score 2-0. Akron was hitless through two when in the bottom of the 3rd inning Damaso Espino singled on a line drive to right center field off Yohan Flande, but would be strained on a strikeout to CF Tim Fedroff. Both Yohan Flande and Eric Berger both had location problems throwing wild pitches Friday night.

It was not until the fifth inning when the Phillies would post two more runs. With Berry on third for the Phillies, Aeros pitcher Eric Berger's wild pitch brought in Berry making it 3-0. The second run of the inning came with runs on first and third when Kevin Mahar crushed a double to LF scoring Spidale. Making the score 4-0.

It was not until the sixth inning when the Aeros bats came alive as DH Jared Goedert doubled to center field to lead things off for the Aeros. Goedert then advanced to 3rd on a LF Nick Weglarz groundout. Matt McBride singled to shortstop Freddy Galvis scoring Goedert. It would be the Aeros only run of the game.

In the 7th and final inning of Game 1 Aeros RHP Bryan Price came in to face the Phillies Michael Spidale striking him out. Price then gave up three consecutive hits to Domonic Brown, Tagg Bozied, and Kevin Mahar who doubled to LF, scoring Brown. Nick Weglarz picked up an outfield assist gunning down Tagg Bozied for the out. In the bottom of the seventh inning the Phillies had a 1-2-3 inning on a double play off of Josh Rodriguez, followed by a pop-fly-out to Phillies right fielder Domonic Brown.

Yohan Flande picked up his 2nd win improving to (2-3) on the year. Flande pitched seven innings giving up seven hits, one earned run, and striking out four facing 24 batters. While Akron Aeros pitcher Eric Berger took the loss and is now (0-2) on the year, Berger pitched five innings giving up six hits, four earned runs, and striking out one facing 24 batters. Berger did lower his ERA to 10.67 after starting the day at 12.54.

Germano started game two and looked strong through the first two innings of play only giving up two hits. The Aeros offense came alive in the bottom of the first inning when Jared Goedert singled to right-field, followed by a Nick Weglarz single to right center. Matt McBride flied out to right field, advancing Goedert to third base. Nick Weglarz then advanced to second on a throwing error by Domonic Brown. This led to an intentional walk of Beau Mills to load the bases, the rally ended when Jason Anderson got Carlos Rivero to swing at strike three on the outside corner of the plate.

In the second inning, the Aeros got on the board with a fielder's choice double play off the bat of Miguel Perez, scoring Cord Phelps. The Aeros would then add a run in the fourth inning on a Beau Mills double to center field scoring Nick Weglarz. The Phillies would bounce back in the top of the fifth inning when Omar Aguilar came into replace Justin Germano. Aguilar gave up back-back-back hits to Kevin Nelson, Freddy Galvis, and Ozzie Chavez to load the bases. Quintin Berry then knocked in the Phillies first run of the game bring in Nelson. Then Brandon Pinckney roped a single to left field bringing in Chavez making the score 2-2. Domonic Brown grounded into a force out bringing in Galvis to make it a 3-2 game. The Aeros wouldn't respond till the bottom of the 7th inning with the game on the line when Matt McBride popped out on a sacrifice fly to center field, bringing in Jared Goedert to even the score 3-3. Beau Mills flied out to end the inning.

The game went into extra innings and the Aeros brought in Carlton Smith to replace Steven Wright. Smith pitched a scoreless top of the 8th and in the bottom half of the inning Carlos Rivero started things off with a single, followed by a Cord Phelps sacrifice bunt moving Rivero to 2nd. Next came the sac bunt attempt by John Drennen who reached safely on a Kevin Mahar throwing error, loading the bases. The rally ended as Phillies pitcher Michael Schwimer was able to get the next three batters to ground out twice and strikeout to end the inning.

In the top of the 9th inning The Phillies started out strong as Quintin Berry reached on a throwing error by Carlos Rivero. Berry then successfully stole 2nd one of his four stolen bases on the day and advanced to 3rd on a throwing error by Miguel Perez. Smith got Brandon Pinckney to line out to Rivero, followed by a sac fly to John Drennen scoring Quintin Berry taking the lead 4-3. The Aeros were able to get Kevin Mahar to groundout to end the inning.

Game three in this four-game series is set for 7:05 p.m. Saturday, with the Aeros sending LHP Kelvin De La Cruz (0-1, 3.00 ERA since being called up May 10. The Reading Phillies are sending RHP Drew Naylor (3-3, 4.25 ERA).The game broadcast begins at 6:50 p.m. on SportsRadio 1350 AM and online at www.akronaeros.com. For more information, please call the Aeros at (330) 253-5151.

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