Barnstormers Capture Community Cup
August 25, 2015 - Atlantic League (AtL)
Lancaster Stormers News Release
The Lancaster Barnstormers secured the Community Cup on Monday night with a 10-3 victory over the York Revolution at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
They also took a step toward a much larger prize.
Lance Zawadzki went 2-for-3 with three RBI on the night, and the bullpen fired 3 2/3 scoreless innings in the win, Lancaster's 15th of the year over York, clinching the extended 28-game season series.
More importantly, the Barnstormers extended their lead in the Freedom Division to 4 1/2 games over York, the club's largest margin in the second half. Twenty-six games remain on the Lancaster schedule while York has 27.
York grabbed an early lead off Nate Reed (5-7) on a homer by Andres Perez and an RBI double by James Simmons in the fourth inning, but the game spun around in the bottom of the fifth.
Logan Williamson (7-10) had two outs with nobody on base following a single and a double play grounder in the inning. Jerry Owens, in his first game back from six weeks on the disabled list, lined a single into center. With Derrick Pyles batting, second baseman Eric Patterson broke to his right as if to cover second despite Owens not running. Pyles skimmed a ground ball at the vacancy, reaching on the resulting base hit. Kent Matthes took Williamson down the left field line for a two-run double, putting Lancaster ahead to stay. York then compounded the inning with two more mistakes as first baseman Telvin Nash dropped a pop up from Mike McDade, and Wilson Valdez misplayed a grounder by Brian Cavazos-Galvez.
Two walks later, the Barnstormers lead had grown to 5-2.
York got one run back on a leadoff homer by Bryan Pounds in the sixth inning and had a chance to grow closer in the seventh. That's when the Barnstormers turned a strange double play to escape.
Valdez reached second when his bounder to short eluded Zawadzki and advanced to third on a fly ball to center by Patterson. Daniel Moskos faced Brandon Boggs as the potential tying run, and Boggs grounded to third. Valdez froze off the bag, expecting the play to be ruled foul. Boggs never budged out of the batter's box, claiming that the ball glanced off his foot. No foul ball call was made. Luke Hughes and Charlie Cutler nabbed Valdez in a rundown, and with Boggs still arguing at home, Hughes simply ran across the diamond to complete the double play.
The umpires huddled, the fair ball call stood, Boggs had to be restrained by his teammates, and the 5-3 lead held.
Zawadzki doubled home Cavazos-Galvez before the first out in the bottom of the seventh, and the Barnstormers put the game away with four in the eighth.
Lancaster hosts York again on Tuesday evening. Chad Beck (3-2) gets the start for the Barnstormers against right-hander Matt Neil (2-7). There will be an official presentation of the Community Cup prior to the start of the game. Fans may tune into 1390-AM, WLAN; rumba1390.com or the I Heart Radio cell phone app, beginning at 6:45.
NOTES: Lancaster has won 13 of the last 17 meetings between the two clubs, including an 8-3 record in the second half...Reed has won four of his last five decisions...Owens, who had been out since July 13, extended a hitting streak to eight and an on-base streak to 19...He is batting .388, all on singles...Cavazos-Galvez knocked in a run in the eighth inning, the first RBI for the club leader in 12 games...Hughes had his first multi-hit game since August 6.
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