AtL Lancaster Stormers

Camden Edges Barnstormers, 2-1

Published on August 16, 2009 under Atlantic League (AtL)
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In these days of relief specialists, complete games are rare accomplishments. When both starters go all nine, it is extremely noteworthy.

Josh Brey outdueled Jason Scobie on Sunday afternoon as the Camden Riversharks edged the Lancaster Barnstormers, 2-1, in the rubber game of a three-game series at Clipper Magazine Stadium.

Brey (4-7) allowed two hits while walking one and striking out five. Scobie was reached for four hits, none after the third inning. The Lancaster right-hander walked two and struck out six to throw his first complete game of the season.

Camden nicked Scobie (5-8) early. Garrett Guzman yanked a one-out liner off the picnic canopies down the right field line for his first Atlantic League home run, giving the Riversharks a 1-0 lead in the second. In the third, Camden built a run on the speed of right fielder Christopher Walker. He led off the inning with a single off the glove of first baseman Nate Gold and immediately stole second. Wayne Lydon bunted Walker to third, and he scored on a sacrifice fly by Bryant Nelson to shallow center. Jon Knott followed with a double over the head of Lloyd Turner in left.

That would be all for Camden on the afternoon. Scobie retired 19 of the remaining 21 Riversharks batters, yielding only the two walks over the final 6 1/3 innings.

Brey made sure that the two runs were enough. After walking Turner with two outs in the first, the Camden southpaw retired the next 14 hitters before Victor Gutierrez broke up the no-hitter with a soft line drive single into right.

The base hit did not rattle Brey at all. He reeled off a streak of eight more outs until Gutierrez got to him again in the ninth, doubling over the head of Guzman in left to start the inning. Brey's wild pitch sent Gutierrez to third, and he scored on a grounder to the right of second baseman Brian Burgamy by Michael Woods. Brey, who got 14 fly ball outs in the game, retired Anderson Machado and Turner on grounders to end the afternoon in two hours, eight minutes.

Lancaster continues the homestand into the week with a three-game series against the Somerset Patriots starting on Monday evening. The Barnstormers will send Trey Hodges (2-4) to the mound against Jason Standridge (2-2). A limited number of baseball card strips will be handed out at the gate.

NOTES: Sunday afternoon's game was the fastest nine-inning home game in Barnstormers history...Aaron Herr lost a hitting streak at six games...Scobie has an ERA of 2.28 and has thrown six quality starts in the second half but has a record of 2-4...For the six games during the week, the starters had a composite ERA of 2.08, but the team batted only .195 and went 2-4.

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