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Battery Mates Lead AirHogs to Series Win

August 21, 2011 - American Association (AA)
Grand Prairie AirHogs News Release


EL PASO, Texas -- Grand Prairie AirHogs catcher Zane Chavez had his first two triples of the season, scoring three times on a 4-for-4 night with a walk, while his pitcher Lance Janke pitched eight innings of one-run baseball as Grand Prairie won the rubber match of their three-game series with the El Paso Diablos at Cohen Stadium on Sunday night, taking the game 10-1.

For the first time in 10 games, Grand Prairie (58-35) took the lead first, getting three straight two-out hits off former teammate Jae Jung (3-5), with Joey Gomes picking up the RBI hit. The AirHogs made it 3-0 in the fourth, getting Chavez's first triple before an RBI double by Guillermo Martinez and a run-scoring single by Stephen Douglas.

El Paso (34-58) got its only run in the fifth after a leadoff triple by Bryan Joynt and an RBI groundout y Kory Drew. But Janke (5-3) did have to work out of major jams in the first two innings, helped out a bit by Diablos baserunners.

In the first inning, Maikol Gonzalez and Albenis Machado singled to start the frame, putting runners at the corners with no one out. With Nelson Teilon up, Machado was caught stealing second while the AirHogs held Gonzalez at third. Janke then struck out Teilon and got Javier Brito to ground out.

An inning later, the Diablos again had runners at the corners with no outs, before Brian Joynt struck out for the first out. With Adam Deleo batting, Alberto Espinosa was picked off first by Chavez, and he broke for second, getting in a rundown while Uriak Marquez broke for the plate. Shortstop German Duran alertly stopped the rundown and threw home to nip Marquez, and Deleo then popped out to end the inning.

After that, Janke did not allow more than one baserunner in an inning until the eighth, when he got three flyball outs around two singles to finish his night, allowing nine hits and no walks, striking out six.

The AirHogs doubled their run total with three n the sixth, including a two-run double from Douglas, and got four more in the eighth to blow the game open.

Jon Fulton finished things off with a scoreless ninth, working around a two-out single.

Notes: The AirHogs concluded their stretch of 27 games in 27 days with a 16-11 mark...The AirHogs won the season series with El Paso 14-5, including a 6-3 record at Cohen Stadium... Douglas extended his on-base streak to 49 games, the longest streak in the league this season and two shy of the league record...Six AirHogs had multi-hit games...The first Diablos hitter of each of the last three innings made an out on the first pitch...Grand Prairie pitchers did not walk a batter for each of the last two games of the series.

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The AirHogs have Monday off before heading to Shreveport to start a four-game series against the Shreveport-Bossier Captains, starting at 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23. The next home game at QuikTrip Park is on Saturday, August 27, at 7:05 p.m. against Amarillo. It is Negro League Tribute Night presented by Jim Austin Online, where both teams will be wearing old-style Negro League uniforms. There will also be a Fireworks Saturday Night spectacular, presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas. All games are available with live, free streaming video on ustream.tv. Individual game tickets are on sale and can be purchased by calling 972-504-9383 or by visiting www.airhogsbaseball.com.



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