Blue Rocks Beat Kinston 4-3 on the 4th
July 4, 2009 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Kinston Indians News Release
The K-Tribe took an early 3-0 lead on a July 4th matinee from Wilmington, but the Blue Rocks scored four unanswered runs to take game three of the series 4-3. The loss was the 21st one-run loss of the season for the Kinston, the most in the Carolina League.
Kinston struck first with two outs in the second frame. Ronald Rivas doubled and was driven home on an RBI single from Ryan Blair. Richard Martinez then singled to keep the inning alive for Eric Perlozzo. Perlozzo singled to right field to knock in Blair and give the K-Tribe a two run advantage. Lucas Montero then bounced one over to the right side that was stopped on a diving attempt by first baseman Chase Fontaine. But Fontaine's underhand toss to his pitcher Eduardo Paulino covering the bag was too hard to handle, and got away from Paulino to allow Martinez to come around from second and score the third run of the inning.
Wilmington responded with three straight one-out hits in the bottom of the second, with Jamar Walton hitting a single and Paulo Orlando dumping a double right over the right side of the infield. Fontaine then drove in Walton on an RBI single and Orlando scored on an Adrian Ortiz sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to just one.
The Blue Rocks would tie the game in the fourth inning on a Fontaine RBI double and the score would stay 3-3 until the seventh. K-Tribe reliever Santo Frias (0-1) was the victim of some Blue Rocks small ball, as Ortiz had a one-out single and stole second base in the seventh. He tagged up to reach third on a Derrick Robinson fly out and then scored on an infield single by Johnny Giavotella that deflected off Frias' glove as he tried making a backhand snag.
The run would hold up as the game-winner as Wilmington relievers Chris Chavez (6-1) and Juan Abreu combined for four shutout innings to close the door on Kinston.
The Indians got a solid start out of Paolo Espino who went six innings, allowing three runs, two earned, one seven hits, two walks and four strikeouts.
Kinston will try to win the series tomorrow for a special 1:35 pm start from Delaware as the Indians send Ryan Morris ( 3-8, 5.59) to the mound.
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