AtL Sugar Land Space Cowboys

Bluefish Swim by Skeeters, 3-1

Published on July 3, 2012 under Atlantic League (AtL)
Sugar Land Space Cowboys News Release


BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut - In game two of the three-game set with the Bridgeport Bluefish, the Sugar Land Skeeters lost another tight ballgame by the final score of 3-1 at Harbor Yard Tuesday night.

Coming up...The Skeeters (27-38) conclude their series with the Bluefish (28-37) in the rubber-game with first pitch scheduled for 1:05 p.m. CDT at Harbor Yard. Jason Lane (1-1) gets the nod against Paul Oseguera ( (5-2) in game three. Do not forget about Pops in the Park after game one against the Bluefish when the team returns home Thursday July 5! The very next day, Roger Creager plays after the game in a postgame concert as a part of Texas A&M Alumni night. In game three, get your Youth Replica Jersey compliments of Texas Direct Auto for the first 2000 kids (12 and under) who enter the park. Before the final game of the series on Sunday, come play catch on the field alongside a team autograph session. For availability on tickets during the home stand and the rest of the season, call 28-1-240-HITS or check out SugarLandSkeeters.com for more info.

Skeeters starting pitcher Heath Phillips (1-5) managed only five innings scattering seven hits and two earned runs with a couple walks and three strikeouts before he was removed to start the sixth in line for the loss. For the Bluefish, Dan Serafini (2-0) picked up his second win in his fourth outing with a respectable seven innings worked allowing just the one run on four hits and a couple of walks with two strikeouts.

Sugar Land scored first for the second night in a row, but hits came far and few between throughout the game. In the top of the third inning, the Skeeters started the scoring with a one-out double from shortstop Iggy Suarez into left-center field. Dominic Ramos walked in the next at-bat, and two batters later, designated-hitter Jason Lane brought Suarez around from second to put the Skeeters up, 1-0. Ramos tried to score in the same sequence of plays but was tagged out at home plate on a 7-6-2 rally from left field.

Phillips managed to hold Bridgeport scoreless through the first three innings, but in the bottom of the fourth, the home team tied it up. Atlantic League leader in home runs Brock Peterson was back in the starting lineup after missing game one, and he proved a difference maker early. With one out and nobody on, Peterson battled with Phillips until he finally cracked one over the left-field wall. His solo home run (15) tied the game, 1-1.

Much like in the first when Sugar Land scored one run in consecutive innings, Bridgeport reversed the trend on the Skeeters. In the bottom of the fifth, the Bluefish added one more when Elliot Ayala, Eddie Rogers, and Prentice Redman all hit singles with two outs in the inning. Redman's single brought in the go-ahead run to put the home team ahead, 2-1.

For good measure, the Bluefish tagged one more run on the sixth on reliever Eric Krebs who replaced Phillips after five. The righty gave up a leadoff single to Edgardo Baez and walked the second batter he faced, James Simmons, to put the runner in scoring position. One batter later, former Sugar Land Skeeter and newest Bridgeport Bluefish signing Luis Figueroa drove in the third run of the game with an RBI-single up the middle to extend the lead, 3-1.

Even though the Skeeters retired the last eight batters they faced in order from the sixth to the eighth, the Bluefish nailed 18 of 23 batters the Skeeters brought to the plate scattering five hits among six innings. For the third time on the road trip, Sugar Land only managed one run in a game with the final score, 3-1.

Skeeters Bites: Jason Lane hit his ninth double of the year and tallied his 17th RBI of the season...Bubba Bell went 2-for-2...The Skeeters overall record against the Bluefish is now (3-2)

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