EL1 Chesapeake Baysox

Baysox Lose Heartbreaker 4-3

Published on July 7, 2006 under Eastern League (EL1)
Chesapeake Baysox News Release


On Friday night, the Baysox failed to gain any ground on the Harrisburg Senators as the visitors nabbed the first of four games in Bowie 4-3 in front of 4,811 fans who were in attendance for the Baysox postponed Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular.

Harrisburg only collected two runs off Baysox starter Beau Hale, who left the game with a 3-2 lead but the Senators were able to score two more off reliever Richard Stahl to take a 4-3 lead in the 7th inning.

Ryan Hubele (pictured) put the Baysox on the board first with his fourth home run of the season in the 2nd inning, but Harrisburg would bounce back in the 4th as Melvin Dorta led off the inning with a triple to right-center and scored on a sacrifice fly to tie the game 1-1. Hale found himself in a jam later in the frame with runners on the corners but got Salomon Manriquez to swing at strike three to end the threat.

Harrisburg then used two singles and a sac fly to score the go-ahead run in the top of the 5th inning but the Baysox would regain the lead in the bottom half of the 6th.

After a lengthy at bat, Chris Gomez drew a walk, Bryan Bass singled Gomez over to second, who scouried to third on a long fly ball off the bat of Cory Keylor. With runners on the corners during Raúl Chavez' at bat, the Senators starter, Oscar Alvarez, threw a pitch in the dirt that got away from Manriquez, allowing Gomez to scamper in from third and Bass to advance to second. Following the wild pitch, Bass scored on Chavez' RBI single to right field to take a 3-2 lead.

But in the see-saw battle, Harrisburg collected two more runs on three hits off of Stahl in the 7th for the 4-3 lead.

In the bottom of the 9th the Baysox made it interesting as Jeff Fiorentino pinch hit for Hubele. The newest member of the Baysox, Todd Donovan then pinch ran for Fiorentino and promptly stole second and third base during Gera Alvarez' at bat. After Alvarez drew a walk, pinch hitter Dustin Yount strolled to the plate and ended the Baysox biggest threat of the evening by swinging at a pitch in the dirt.

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