Big Hit Eludes AirHogs in Regular-Season Finale

Published on August 30, 2011 under American Association (AA)
Grand Prairie AirHogs News Release


GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -- John Brownell set a Grand Prairie AirHogs' season-high in the regular season finale, striking out 12 Amarillo Sox hitters, but his offense failed to find a big hit against five Amarillo pitchers, as the Sox shut out the AirHogs 3-0 in front of 2,278 at QuikTrip Park.

Brownell (11-5) worked eight innings, gave up six hits and two walks, and was charged with one run on a second-inning RBI hit by Josh Banda. The AirHogs' righty struck out every batter in the Amarillo lineup at least once, and threw 129 pitches in his final playoff tuneup.

Matt Elliott started for Amarillo (44-56) and went two innings, giving up a leadoff hit in the first and a leadoff walk in the second, but stranded both runners.

Justin Garcia (9-5) was up next, and gave up two hits and a walk in his two innings, but also struck out four AirHogs hitters. Ryan Mitchell hit a batter and also gave up two hits, but he survived the sixth and seventh innings. Chad Povich worked a scoreless eighth, working around one hit, while the Sox got two more runs off Bo Schultz in the ninth, on another Banda RBI hit.

In the ninth, Povich got the first two men out before walking Danny Figueroa and allowing a hit to Stephen Douglas. But German Duran flied out to Banda in left as the Sox finished off their 2011 campaign on a high note.

Notes: The AirHogs (64-36) went 2-for-18 with runners on base and 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position...Douglas finished the year on a 21-game hitting streak and a league-record 56-game on-base streak...David Thomas (20) and David Espinosa (87) finished their campaigns with American Association records for hit-by-pitches and walks, respectively...Eight AirHogs finished with batting averages over .300.

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The AirHogs open the 2011 American Association playoffs at QuikTrip Park on Thursday, September 1, at 7:05 p.m. against either Wichita or Gary SouthShore. 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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