Beam, Pelicans Smother Cats 6-1
Published on August 2, 2009 under American Association (AA)
Fort Worth Cats News Release
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Pelicans starter Randy Beam allowed just one run in eight innings of work as the Pelicans downed the Cats 6-1 on Sunday night in the series finale.
The Pelicans scored twice in the third inning as Adam Darby led off the inning with a double. One out later, Dallas Christison singled to right, scoring Darby to put the Pelicans on the scoreboard. Kevin Reynolds then walked before Francisco Leandro hit a ground ball to short on which the Cats failed to turn a double play, allowing Christison to score for a 2-0 advantage.
The Cats narrowed the lead to 2-1 in the fifth inning as Isa Garcia smacked his fifth home run of the season, a solo shot to left.
But the Pelicans answered in the last of the fifth as Adam Darby reached on a leadoff walk. He advanced to second on a sacrifice, to third on a wild pitch and then came into score as a Christison ground ball eluded second baseman Ron Fenwick and was scored an RBI single. Later in the inning, Christison scored on an RBI single by Leandro to make it 4-1.
Pensacola would add two in the eighth on an RBI double by Chase Burch and a run-scoring single by Antoin Gray.
Beam recorded his seventh win of the season and his second against Fort Worth as he permitted just a run on four hits in eight innings of work.
Nat Harris went 7 1/3 innings and allowed six runs on seven hits to suffer the loss. He did not strike out a batter and walked three. His record fell to 4-5 overall and 2-2 with Fort Worth.
Christison, the former Fort Worth Cat was 2-for-3 in the game with two RBIs. Leandro was 2-for-4 and also had two runs batted in.
The Cats have the day off Monday before opening a three-game series with Shreveport-Bossier on Tuesday night at LaGrave Field in Fort Worth. Game time is 7:05 p.m.
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