Barnstormers Pick Up Third Straight Win
Published on July 31, 2007 under Atlantic League (AtL)
Lancaster Stormers News Release
Lancaster's bats produced double figures in the runs column for the second straight game as the Barnstormers outpaced the Newark Bears, 12-10, Tuesday evening at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
Two days off did not slow down a Barnstormers attack that reached Newark for 19 runs on Saturday night. Dominick Ambrosini was 4-for-5 with two RBI while Jeremy Todd and Lance Burkhart each homered and drove in three.
While there were six homers and six doubles belted in the game, it took three straight singles to provide the difference in the eighth inning.
With the score tied at 10-10, Brendon Davis (0-3) walked Jutt Hileman to start the winning rally. It appeared that Davis would render the walk useless as he got Ambrosini to ground into a force play and Todd to foul out to catcher John Pachot. Felix Martinez slapped a single into center to keep the inning alive. Eric Crozier followed with a ground ball through the right side which brought Ambrosini across from third base with the tie-breaking run. Lance Burkhart stroked a similar grounder into right to bring Martinez home, giving closer Derrick DePriest a two-run lead that he converted into his 12th save.
Things looked bleak early for the Barnstormers. Starter Rob Henkel failed to survive the second inning, yielding a two-run homer to Keith Reed in the top of the first and three more runs in the Bears second.
For the second straight game, though, the Barnstormers roared back. Todd and Burkhart slugged two-run homers in the second off Jose Garcia to narrow the gap to 5-4, and Lancaster was able to forge ahead in the third.
With one out, Hileman walked and went to second on Ambrosini's second single of the game. Todd laced a single into left to score Hileman with the tying run, and Martinez gave the Barnstormers their first lead with a single to center.
A two-run double by Ambrosini keyed a three-run fourth as Lancaster broke out to a 9-5 lead, but again, Newark scored five unanswered runs.
A homer by Javier Colina, RBI doubles by Jose Herrera and Corey Smith and a bad pickoff throw brought Newark back into a tie by the end of the sixth, and Joey Gomes crushed his second homer of the night leading off the seventh to place the Bears back on top, but the Barnstormers knotted it back up on a double by Martinez, an infield single by Crozier and a wild pitch to set the stage for the eighth.
Ryan Harris (2-0), pitching for the fourth time in five games, fired a scoreless eighth to earn the win.
NOTES: Ambrosini has back-to-back four-hit games, the first Barnstormer to do so...Quincy Foster had eight hits in two games, July 17-18, 2005...Ambrosini is 21-for-40 (.525) with 15 RBI in his last nine games...Todd has nine RBI in the first two games of the series and now has 16 homers and 54 RBI for the year...DePriest is now third in saves in Barnstormers history...Lancaster has had 55 baserunners in the two games of the series...RHP Josh Stevens (7-4) will take the mound on Wednesday against right-hander Harold Eckert (0-0)...Game time is 7:05.
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