Big crowd sees Royals lose to RedHawks
Published on June 5, 2004 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Omaha Storm Chasers News Release
OMAHA â The biggest crowd of the season turned out Friday night to watch the Royals face the Oklahoma RedHawks. But, the Royals did so with three of their best hitters on the bench and managed only three hits in a 4-1 loss in front of 16,698 fans.
Calvin Pickering and Rick Short, who both had seven-game hitting streaks halted on Thursday night, had the night off Friday. As did Paul Phillips, who had hit .297 (22-74) over his previous 21 games.
The Royals managed just one hit off Oklahoma starter Nick Regilio (4-3) over the first six innings. That was second inning single by Adrian Brown. Omaha was down 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth when an errant pickoff throw to first base by Regilio led to Damian Jackson scoring an unearned run without the benefit of a hit.
Veteran reliever Doug Brocail retired six of the seven Royals batters he faced in the seventh and eighth innings, yielding only a bunt single to Brown. The Royals only other hit was a leadoff single in the ninth from Jed Hansen, who has now hit in six consecutive and in 15 of his last 16 contests.
However, Hansen's single to right was the only hit off Todd Williams, who got Jarrod Patterson to ground into a fielder's choice. For Patterson, who was batting in the cleanup spot, it extended his hitless skein to his last 21 at-bats. Mendy Lopez, just down from Kansas City and playing in his first game with Omaha since the 1999 season, then grounded into a tailor-made 6-4-3 double play to end the game. Williams earned his eighth save of the season.
Omaha starter Kris Wilson (2-8) pitched well in defeat, allowing three runs on six hits over eight innings. Wilson, who became the PCL's first eight-game loser, walked only one batter and struck out two. He did not allow a home run for just the second time in 12 starts, keeping his league-leading gopher ball total at 22. Wilson did hit two RedHawks batters with pitches and, after Regilio did likewise in the fifth and sixth innings both teams were warned that the next hit batter would result in an ejection. Fortunately, that event never transpired.
Oklahoma (32-23) earned a split of the four-game series with Omaha (23-33). The Royals finished their fourth home stand of the campaign with their fourth identical 3-5 record.
The Royals open a four-game trip to Colorado Springs Saturday night at 8:05 p.m., with the pre-game show on the air at 7:45 p.m. on Fox Sports Radio 1490 and www.Oroyals.com. It will be Royals RH Jamey Wright (6-4, 3.76) vs. Sky Sox RH Kevin Jarvis (0-2, 5.61).
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