SAL1 Lake County Captains

Captains Throw Second Shutout in Three Games

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


(Lexington, KY) - The Lake County Captains threw their second shutout in the last three games as they defeated the Lexington Legends 2-0 on Tuesday. The Captains gave up two runs in the four game series and took three of four games. The Captains lead the Northern Division of the SAL by five games over Lakewood and Greensboro.

The game was scoreless until the top of the eighth inning when the Captains plated two runs. With runners at first and third and two outs, Matt Brown rolled a single to right field that scored Roman Peña from third. Dustin Realini was trying to go from first to third on the hit and the throw from right fielder Steve Brown to third went past third baseman Bryan Brown and Realini scored to make it 2-0.

Chris Archer did not factor in the decision but went five scoreless innings and allowing four walking one and striking out five. Josh Judy relieved Archer in the sixth inning and pitched two scoreless innings. Dallas Cawiezell came on and pitched a scoreless eighth inning and Pestano closed out the ninth to pick up his twelfth save in thirteen tries. Reliever Jordan Powell took the loss with his record falling to 0-5.

The Captains return home for a four game series and home stand on Wednesday with a 7:05 PM game against the Lakewood BlueClaws. LHP Ryan Miller (7-0, 0.93) goes for his eighth win which would tie him for the league lead against the BlueClaws RHP Darren Byrd who is making his first start this year for the Claws since being demoted from Clearwater with a record of 0-4 and an ERA of 9.25. The game can also be heard on AM 1330 WELW, WELW.COM or CAPTAINSBASEBALL.COM.

Tickets for all Captains home games are on sale at the Classic Park box office, by phone at 440-954-WINS (9467) or at captainsbaseball.com.

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