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Barons Top Lookouts, 6-4

July 25, 2003 - Southern League (SL1)
Birmingham Barons News Release


BIRMINGHAM, AL – With the rumors of Enemencio Pacheco going to the Texas Rangers as part of the White Sox Carl Everett deal finally squelched, Pacheco promptly pitched his way to his team-high tying eighth win as the Barons beat the Chattanooga Lookouts 6-4 in front of 3,117 fans on Thursday evening at the Hoover Met.

Pacheco had been rumored to be a possible member of the trio of minor leaguers going to the Rangers for Carl Everett, but with the announcement today that Frank Francisco, Josh Rupe and Anthony Webster would be heading to Arlington, Pacheco took the mound knowing he would stay a Baron. When the night was over, Pacheco picked up his eighth win (tying him with Neal Cotts for the team lead) after tossing 6.1 innings and giving up three runs on seven hits while striking out six.

The Barons got on the board first with a run in the first and third innings that were both scored by Chad Durham. In both innings, Durham singled to leadoff, stole second, was moved to third by Danny Sandoval and driven in by Jeremy Reed. The Barons tacked on two more runs in the sixth on a Scott Bikowski double that scored Gabe Alvarez and a Jon Hamilton single that plated Bikowski.

Pacheco was cruising through the first six innings with a 4-0 lead before running into trouble in the seventh. Dernell Stenson lead off the inning with his 14th homer of the season before Jim Chamblee singled and advanced to second on a walk to Guye Senjem and then trotted home on a 2-RBI triple by Brad Correll to make the score 4-3. Pacheco struck out Andrew Beattie before being lifted for the left-hander Ryan Meaux who got Correll on a caught stealing on a failed squeeze attempt and then struck out Mark Schramek to end the Looks threat.

In the bottom half of the inning, the Barons answered back by driving in two runs after Sandoval singled in Josh Shaffer and Alvarez knocked in Sandoval to push the lead to 6-3. Chattanooga cut the lead to 6-4 after scoring late against Meaux but Jeff Bajenaru came on and picked up his fifth save of the season after throwing the scoreless ninth.

The series finale tomorrow will feature RHP Mitch Wylie (2-3, 4.81) for the Barons versus RHP Daylan Childress (0-2, 7.20) for Chattanooga. All the action can be heard on 101.1 FM "The Source" with Curt Bloom on the play-by-play.

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