Defenders Register Fifth Straight Victory
Published on June 8, 2007 under Eastern League (EL1)
Connecticut Defenders News Release
The Defenders put their bats to work again on Friday. This time their prey was the Binghamton Mets. Connecticut feasted on errors and pitching mistakes to pour in 11 hits. On the other side of things Nick Pereira dealt out his second consecutive impress start to handle the Mets bats and help the Defenders to their fifth straight victory with a 8-2 win.
The Defenders struck first in the second inning as 1B Travis Ishikawa worked out a 1-out walk and 3B Mark Minicozzi followed with a single. C Steve Holm stepped in and hit a grounder to second base, lead runner Minicozzi was retired, but the Mets recorded their first error of the game on the play with an E3 and Ishikawa came around to score the first run of the game. The Mets responded in the top of the third to tie up the game at 1 off a sacrifice fly by SS Jose Coronado.
They added another run in the third inning as 2B Eugenio Velez led off and reached base on an error by the shortstop Coronado. Velez then stole second and reached third on a throwing error by C Robinson Cancel. The following batter SS Trey Webb grounded one to second base and Velez came in to score, breaking the tie to put the Defenders up 2-1 after 3 innings.
The Mets would not score another run off of Pereira even though he allowed at least one batter to reach base in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings, but still faced the minimum in 3 of 4 them. The Defenders added three runs in the sixth inning as Ishikawa came around to score on back-to-back errors during a Minicozzi ground ball, Velez added an RBI single and OF Pat Dobson hit a sacrifice fly to plate a run. Three more runs in the seventh inning sealed the deal on a 2-run double off the bat of Holm and another Dobson sacrifice fly. The Defenders led 8-1 after eight full.
Reliever Joe Bateman surrendered a blast to 1B Brett Harper that sailed over the right field wall to make it 8-2. That would hold up as the final score as Bateman settled down to close out the victory. Marcos Carvajal (L, 1-4) dropped his fourth game of the season, pitching 5.1 innings, surrendering 5 runs (3 earned), 7 hits, walking 2 and striking out 5 batters. Nick Pereira (W, 3-5) won his second consecutive start with 7 innings of 1 run ball, giving up just 4 hits, walking 2 and striking out 5 batters. Steve Holm went 3-4 with a double (4) and 2 RBI. Eugenio Velez went 2-5 with a triple (3), stolen base (13) and 1 RBI. The Defenders look to make it six straight on Saturday June 9 at 6:35 p.m.
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