SAL1 Hickory Crawdads

Crawdads fall 4-2

Published on April 28, 2009 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Hickory Crawdads News Release


KANNAPOLIS, N.C.-- The Hickory Crawdads fell 4-2 to the Kannapolis Intimidators on Tuesday night in front of 1,249 fans at Fieldcrest Cannon Stadium. SS Edward Martinez went 3-for-4 at the plate to pace the Hickory offense in the loss.

Kannapolis started their intimidating early, jumping out to a 1-0 lead over Hickory in the bottom of the first inning. Short stop Eduardo Escobar singled his way on to lead off the bottom half of the frame. The leadoff batter then moved over to second base after an errant throw on the pick off attempt by Hickory starter Jake Brigham. 2B Drew Garcia then singled to right field, driving in Escobar and making it a 1-0 contest.

The scoring would continue in the third inning, as the Intimidators plated one run off of DH Kenny Williams' RBI single. CF Jordan Cheatham singled his way on to lead off the inning and swiped second base for his second stolen base of the season. After moving over to third base on Escobar's sacrifice bunt, Cheatham would come the rest of the 90 feet on Garcia's RBI ground out to make it 2-0 after three. However, Kannapolis wasn't done in the scoring column just yet, as the Intimidators would find two more runs in the home half of the fourth frame. 1B Jorge Castillo reached on a fielding error by Crawdads 2B Jason Ogata with one out. Two batters later, C John Curtis singled to right with Castillo going on the hit-and-run attempt and making all the way to third base. Williams then came through with his second RBI single of the night, bringing Castillo the rest of the way home and making it 3-0. After a Cheatham walk, Escobar picked up an RBI single to center, plating Curtis and pushing the Kannapolis lead to 4-0 after four innings of play. The Hickory bats got going in the sixth inning with SS Edward Martinez singling his way on to lead off the top of the frame. Martinez would then move over to second base on DH Jarod Bolden's groundout to short. RF Mike Bianucci came to the plate with one on and one out and hit a bloop single to shallow left fiend, scoring Martinez, who was running on contact, from second base to make it 4-1 Kannapolis at the end of the sixth.

In the seventh, Hickory 2B Jason Ogata reach after being hit by a pitch with one out. C Doug Hogan then came to the plate and double to deep center field, moving Ogata to third on the play. CF David Paisano then hit a sharp ground ball up the third base side, causing Intimidators 3B Jon Gilmore to bobble the ball and allowing Ogata to score, Hogan to move to third and Paisano to reach on the error. That would make it a 4-2 contest and wrap up the scoring for both teams.

Kannapolis starter Charlie Leesman improved to 3-0 on the season after throwing seven solid innings while giving up eight hits and two earned runs. The left-hander walked two and struck out three on the night. On the other side, Hickory starter Jake Brigham suffered the loss to fall to 1-1 on the season. The right hander lasted just four innings, giving up six hits, four runs- only two earned, recording two walks and four strike outs.

Intimidators reliever Dan Remenowsky came in to work a scoreless ninth while striking out one in route to picking up his third save in as many chances in 2009.

Kannapolis improves to 12-7 with the win, while Hickory falls to 9-10 after the loss. The two teams will meet again tomorrow with a 10 o' clock start time.

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