Beavers lead 7-6 in suspended game

Published on June 29, 2009 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Portland Beavers News Release


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The game between the Portland Beavers and Colorado Springs Sky Sox was suspended in the middle of the fifth due to weather with the Beavers leading 7-6 Monday night at Security Service Field.

Monday's game will be postponed until Tuesday afternoon, 4 p.m. (Mountain), when the teams will finish the final 4 ½ innings. Tuesday's regularly-scheduled contest will be seven innings, with the first pitch coming 30 minutes following the suspended game.

Chad Huffman and Craig Stansberry each tallied two RBIs and a run scored, and Mike Baxter and Sean Kazmar recorded two hits apiece for the Beavers (36-41).

Former Beaver Adam Eaton gave up seven runs (2 earned) on eight hits in five innings and Matt Buschmann went four, allowing six runs on five hits before the rain came.

Baxter, hitting leadoff for the first time this season, hit a lead-off single to begin the first inning and Stansberry reached on an error, allowing Val Pascucci to knock in his first RBI as a Beaver with a groundout to third base. Huffman followed with a two-run double to give Portland an early 3-0 lead.

After Colorado Springs loaded the bases to start off the bottom of the first, Matt Murton hit a sacrifice fly and Christian Colonel followed with a run-scoring single. Sal Fasano added a three-run homer in the next at-bat as the Sky Sox (45-31) batted around in the inning to go up 5-3 on the Beavers.

Kazmar singled and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt and a fielding error before Stansberry plated him in the second.

The Beavers retook the lead 7-5 in the third with two straight run-scoring singles by Kazmar and Buschmann and an RBI groundout by Stansberry.

Jonathan Herrera hit an RBI single in the bottom of the third frame to bring the Sky Sox to within a run.

The rain intensified in the middle of the fifth, causing a 90-minute rain delay that eventually led to the suspension.

The Beavers and Sky Sox conclude their four-game series Tuesday night at 6:05 p.m. (Pacific)

NOTES: After entering the series against Colorado Springs in an 0-for-27 slump, Huffman has now gone 5-for-10 with seven RBIs and a home run in three games against the Sky Sox.

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