Dash Win Four Straight
Published on June 2, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Winston-Salem Dash News Release
Winston-Salem throttled Myrtle Beach 15-3 to match their season-high with four consecutive wins. The Dash offense registered 17 hits and season-highs with 7 doubles and 4 home runs in game that saw each team forced to provide a field umpire.
The Dash jumped in front with four runs in the bottom of the second inning against Myrtle Beach starter Cole Rohrbough. Salvador Sanchez, who finished with a season-high four hits and four runs, led off with a single and moved to third base when right fielder Joe Persichina doubled.
Kyle Shelton followed with a two-run single to give the Dash a 3-2 lead. Next, Dale Mollenhauer walked and Paiml bunted the runners up to second and third. Jimmy Gallagher lined a two-run double into the right field corner to extend Winston-Salem's advantage to 5-2.
The Dash broke the game open in the third inning with five more runs off Rohrbough. Shelton, who finished with a season-high four RBI, delivered a two-run double that scored Sanchez and Persichina. Mollenhauer contributed a run-scoring double and Gallagher crushed a two-run home run to put Winston-Salem ahead 10-2.
Freddie Freeman tallied an RBI single for the Pelicans in the top of the sixth inning, but the Dash answered right back in the bottom half as Lee Cruz smacked a solo home run and Sanchez added a two-run blast to give the Dash a 13-3 lead. Sanchez would finalize the scoring in the bottom of the eighth inning with his second two-run home run Lowe (4-1) matched a season-high by tossing 8 IP and held Myrtle Beach to 3 runs on 5 hits with 5 K to garner the win. Rohrbough (2-3) only last 2.2 IP and allowed a career-worst 10 runs on 11 hits to suffer the loss.
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