NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

August 19th Lake Monsters Gamenotes

Published on August 18, 2009 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


RECORD: The Lake Monsters are 26-30 after a 10-5 loss to State College on Sunday ... Vermont has won 2 of last 3 after a 5-game losing streak and are 7-15 in its last 22 games since being season-high 4 games over .500 (19-15) on July 24th ... The Lake Monsters are 12-15 in 27 games at Centennial Field, having won 4 of their last 7 at home.

VS JAMESTOWN: The Jammers lead the season series 2-1 ... After Vermont took the opener 5-2 at Jamestown on July 14th, the Jammers won 6-2 on July 15th and then 6-5 on July 16th on 2-run game-ending home run off Lake Monsters reliever Steven Stewart ... Jamestown is 5th in NY-Penn League with .247 team batting average, tied for 12th in runs (212) and tied with Vermont in homers (15) ... Jamestown pitchers are 12th in ERA (4.01) and have allowed most hits in league (528).

NY-PENN LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME: The American League affiliates defeated the National League affiliates 4-2 in the New York-Penn League All-Star Game at State College, Pennsylvania ... The AL All-Stars snapped a 1-1 tie with 3 runs in the top of the 7th ... Mitchell Clegg pitched a scoreless 3rd ininng, allowing 1 hit and 1 walk with 1 strikeout ... Evan Bronson gave up a solo home run in the 4th inning, while striking out 2 of the other 3 batters that he faced ... Francisco Soriano was 0-for-2 with 1 walk and 1 strikeout as the starting 2nd baseman ... Sean Nicol was 0-for-2 after entering the game at short as a sub.

DEJA VU: Over the last 5 seasons the Lake Monsters have struggled starting in late July/early August, including the last 3 seasons when Vermont was over the .500 mark ... Breakdown:

Year Record Date Next 22 Record Date Final Record

2009 19-15 7/24 7-15 26-30 8/16 ?????

2008 18-14 7/22 5-17 23-31 8/14 33-42

2007 29-19 8/8 5-17 34-36 9/2 38-37

2006 18-31 8/9 4-18 22-49 9/3 23-52

2005 15-27 8/2 6-16 21-43 8/27 28-48

LONG BALLS: Vermont pitchers have allowed at least 1 home run in 5 straight games (6 HR total) and 7 of last 8 games (9 HR total) ... Lake Monsters have hit 3 homers last 10 games ... After allowing just 8 homers in first 33 games, Vermont pitchers have given up 19 homers in the last 23 games ... Lake Monsters 8 homers last 27 games after 7 homers first 29.

DOUBLE-DIGIT RUNS: The 10 State College runs on Sunday marked the 5th time this season that Vermont has allowed 10 or more runs in a game (4 10-run and 1 16-run games) ... Vermont scored scored double digit runs 1 time (14 at Auburn on 8/5).

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