Crosscutters split doubleheader Monday
Published on June 29, 2009 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Williamsport Crosscutters News Release
GAME ONE HIGHLIGHTS: The Crosscutters split two games of a doubleheader Monday evening vs. Batavia losing game one, 5-1 and winning game two, 4-3. With the split the Cutters remain one game above .500 (6-5).
Starting pitcher Siulman LeBron was on the losing end of game one allowing five runs, four earned on 10 hits in 5 innings pitched.
The Cutters scored their only run of the game in the bottom of the 5th inning. 3B Anthony Hewitt led off the frame with a walk. After the next two Cutters struck out, 1B Stephen Batts extended the inning with a single advancing Hewitt to third base. Hewitt would then score Williamsport's only run on a passed ball.
GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS: Williamsport scored its first run of the game in the bottom of the first inning. LF Leandro Castro hit a gapper to left center, landing at the base of the wall that resulted in a stand-up triple. Later in the inning, with two outs, RF T.J. Warren would knock in Castro with a RBI double to right center.
The Cutters would score again in the second when 3B Anthony Hewitt smashed a two-out triple to right and scored on SS Evan Porter's RBI double to left field.
In the fifth, CF Leandro Castro doubled and after an intentional walk to 1B Stephen Batts, T.J. Warren ripped a go-ahead single to right field plating Castro. On the play, Batavia attempted to throw Batts out at third but the ball was overthrown into the Muckdogs dugout allowing Batts to score on the error.
After a 37 minute rain delay in the bottom of the 6th, RHP Justin Long was able to work himself out of a jam while picking up his team high 3rd save. After striking out the first Batavia batter in the top of the 7th, Long allowed three straight hits. With one run already in, Long was able to strand runners on first and third while striking out the next two Muckdogs. RHP Eric Massingham (1-1, 0.00) picked up his first win as a professional, pitching two scoreless innings allowing no hits while striking out three.
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