SAL1 Lake County Captains

Captains Sweep Suns

Published on August 27, 2008 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Lake County Captains News Release


(Eastlake, OH) - Richard Martinez hit a two-out solo home run in the bottom of the eighth to lead the Lake County Captains to a three-game sweep of the Hagerstown Suns 5-4 on Wednesday. Todd Martin drove in two runs and Mark Thompson had three hits for the Captains. The win was the Captains season-high sixth in a row.

Hagerstown got to Captains starter Ryan Miller in the first inning on back to back doubles by Jose Lozada and Tim Pahuta and the Suns led 1-0. The Captains came right back in the bottom of the first against Suns starter Terrence Engles and tied it at 1-1 on a sacrifice fly by Todd Martin. The Suns made it 2-1 in the second on a RBI single by Mark Gildea. It went to 3-1 when Sean Rooney hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the third inning.

The Captains cut the lead to 3-2 when Todd Martin singled home Karexon Sanchez in the bottom of the third inning. The Suns scored another run in the fourth inning on a RBI double from Lozada and it was 4-2. The Captains tied it at 4-4 in the bottom of the fourth inning on a RBI double from Jeff Hehr and a RBI single from Mark Thompson.

Miller did not get a decision pitching four innings and allowing four runs, three earned on six hits, walking one and striking out two. Garrett Rieck came on in relief of Miller in the fifth inning and worked two scoreless innings striking out two. John Gaub got the win to even his record at 1-1 as he came on in the seventh inning and threw two scoreless innings striking out four. Dallas Cawizell pitched a scoreless ninth inning to record his second save. Chris Lugo took the loss and his record fell to 2-2.

The Captains travel to Delmarva and Hagerstown to close out the regular season. The Captains will be in Delmarva on Thursday to complete a suspended game which originally started at Classic Park on August 9th. Game time is 5:05 PM. In the regularly scheduled game, the Captains will send RHP Joey Mahalic (7-5, 4.02) to the mound to face the Shorebirds LHP Chris Salberg (1-4, 3.86). All Captains games can be heard on AM 1330 WELW, WELW.COM or CAPTAINSBASEBALL.COM.

The Captains will host the second, and if necessary, the third game of the Northern Division Championship series at Classic Park on September 5th and 6th. The series is best of three games and the Captains will play game one on the road against either West Virginia or Lakewood.

Tickets for all Captains home games including the 2008 SAL Playoffs are on sale at the Classic Park box office, by phone at 440-954-WINS (9467) or at captainsbaseball.com. Tickets for the Playoffs remain the same as regular season game tickets, $9 reserved seat, $7 bleachers, juniors, and seniors, $6 lawn. Lawn seats for the Playoffs will only be sold once the reserved seats and bleachers are sold out. The $7 group rate will still apply to groups of 20 or more.

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