SAL1 Delmarva Shorebirds

BlueClaws victorious over Shorebirds

Published on June 7, 2008 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Delmarva Shorebirds News Release


Lakewood, NJ- A bases-loaded wild pitch with two outs in the last of the ninth allowed Lakewood's D'Arby Myers to cross home plate and give the BlueClaws the dramatic walk-off victory on Saturday night. With the league's leading hitter Michael Taylor at the plate, he left the bat on his shoulders as a Shane Mathews 1-1 pitch sailed over the head of catcher Wally Crancer to allow Lakewood to win their third straight over Delmarva this weekend. With the win, the BlueClaws take their 16th victory in the last 19 games and close the gap with first place Lake County. Lakewood now just resides one game of the Captains, while the Shorebirds remain two and half back with nine games remaining on the season.

After a bevy of early runs, the bullpens took over and repeatedly put up zeroes on the linescore. Frustratingly, three of the five BlueClaw runs were unearned as two Delmarva errors really stung. Leading 4-2 in the third, the BlueClaws tied the game after a crucial Tyler Henson error. And in the ninth, the winning run D'Arby Myers reached base on a Matt Tucker miscue.

Shorebird starter Zach Britton struggled through three innings. Forced to throw 83 pitches in three innings, allowing four runs (two earned), Britton turned the game over to the bullpen in the fourth. While Cliff Flagello and Brett Bordes combined to shut out the BlueClaws from the fourth to the eighth, Lakewood scraped the walk-off unearned tally of Shane Mathews in the ninth without recording a hit.

Joe Nowicki had another three hit game for the Shorebirds, while Ryan Adams, Tyler Henson, and Matt Tucker all registered two hits apiece, but while Delmarva out-hit Lakewood 12-7, they failed in the column that matters most.

Hoping to avoid the sweep, the Shorebirds will turn their fate over to Sean Gleason on Sunday, a 1:05 finale at FirstEnergy Park.

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