CarL1 Potomac Nationals

Burgess Belts Potomac to Win in Kinston

Published on May 7, 2010 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Potomac Nationals News Release


(KINSTON, NC) A two-out, two-run double by Mike Burgess broke an tenth-inning tie and vaulted the Potomac Nationals to a 4-2 series opening victory in Kinston Friday night.

Patrick Lehman bounced back from a shaky opening inning (he entered the game in the fifth in relief of Robinson Fabian) to post his best outing of the season and counter the typically dominant pitching of the K-Tribe. The righthander Alex White controlled Potomac over six and a third innings, allowing just five hits and striking out seven. But Lehman was every bit as good - once he got his first-inning jitters out of the way.

In the fifth, the Indians loaded the bases with no outs. Lehman then walked Richard Martinez to give Kinston a 2-1 lead. But that would be the last offense for the Indians - in the inning and the ballgame. A double-play ball and a groundout ended the threat in the fifth; Lehman went four more scoreless innings and yielded just three hits with six strikeouts.

The Nationals - who scored their first run on a groundout from leadoff man Steve Lombardozzi - looked to the opposite end of the lineup card to tie it in the seventh. With runners at first and second with one out, Chris Curran singled into right field to score Dan Nelson and knot the score.

It would stay that way until the tenth. Matt Langwell walked two P-Nats, and Burgess made him pay. A line shot to the wall scored Curran and Edgardo Baez. Cole Kimball came on to close the game in the tenth for his fourth save.

The two teams will play the second of three games tomorrow night at 7 P.M. In search of their first four-game winning streak of the season, the Nats will send righthander A.J. Morris to the hill. The broadcast can be heard beginning at 6:45.

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