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Dragons Gameday for Thursday, July 14

Published on July 14, 2011 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Dayton Dragons News Release


Dragons GameDay

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Modern Woodmen Park * Davenport, Iowa

8:00 p.m. * Game # 90 (20)

Radio: WONE-AM 980

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Dayton Dragons (13-6, 48-41) at Quad Cities River Bandits (11-8, 51-37)

RH Daniel Corcino (8-4, 3.12) vs. RH Seth Blair (5-3, 4.23)

Today's Game: The Dayton Dragons (affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds) meet the Quad Cities River Bandits (affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals) in the second game of a three-game series. Season Series: Quad Cities 1, Dayton 0.

Last Night: Quad Cities defeated Dayton 7-5 in the first game of the series. Dayton trailed 7-2 entering the ninth inning and scored three times. The Dragons had the tying run at the plate with two outs but could not complete the comeback. The Dragons collected eight hits including two each for Billy Hamilton, Dominic D'Anna, and Yorman Rodriguez. D'Anna had a solo home run.

Today's Dragons Starting Pitcher: Daniel Corcino makes his 17th start of the season tonight. He suffered the loss in his last start last Thursday at Fort Wayne (3 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 1 SO). Corcino pitched one inning in the Midwest League All-Star Game on June 21 at Quad Cities, allowing one run in one inning and suffering the loss. He won six consecutive starts from April 18-May 18. Corcino is a 20-year-old native of the Dominican Republic. He entered the 2011 season rated as the #15 prospect in Reds organization by Baseball America. Corcino has drawn comparisons to fellow Dominican and former Dragon Johnny Cueto because of a fastball that can get into the mid 90 mph range and sub-six foot frame.

Individual Notes

* Billy Hamilton has hit safely in 10 straight games (17 for 44, .386). He has 66 stolen bases to set the Dragons club record for single-season and career steals. He leads all of professional baseball in steals.

* David Vidal is batting .333 with 4 HR and 19 RBI in his last 19 games, raising his average from .267 to .285.

* Ronald Torreyes has played in 21 games with the Dragons and kept his average above .349 for all but one day.

* Jefry Sierra is batting .318 over his last 13 games, raising his average from .206 to .226.

* Yorman Rodriguez is batting .368 over his last 10 games to raise his average from .232 to .251.

* Drew Hayes over his last 28 G: 33.1 IP, 2 R, 0.54 ERA (15 straight games without allowing a run covering 15.2 innings).

* Daniel Wolford over his last 21 G: 34.2 IP, 4 R, 3 ER, 0.78 ERA to lower his season ERA from 4.50 to 1.74.

Team Notes

* The Dragons have won nine of their last 12 games. They are 19-10 over the last 29 games and have won 6 straight sets to start the half. They will need to beat Quad Cities tonight and tomorrow to win this series.

* Dayton has held sole possession of first place for the last 10 days and held at least a share of first for the last 14 days.

* The Dragons are 5-8 vs. West Division teams (3-4 on the road).

* The Dragons have gone 17-10 over their last 27 road games after going 5-13 over their first 18. Their road record is now 22-23.

* The Dragons are batting .277 in the second half (18 games) after hitting .241 in the first half (70 games).

* The Dragons bullpen ERA for the year is 2.89.

* The Dragons have stolen 150 bases to rank first in all of professional baseball.

* The Dragons have thrown out 49 percent of opposing base stealers to lead the league. Only one other team is above 38 percent.

* Dayton has outscored its opponents 182-61 in their last 26 wins. Opponents have scored one run or less in 12 of the last 26 Dragons wins.

* Six members of the Dragons roster are rated among the Reds top 30 prospects according to Baseball America. They include shortstop Billy Hamilton (#2), outfielder Yorman Rodriguez (#5), starting pitcher Kyle Lotzkar (#10), starting pitcher Daniel Corcino (#15), second baseman Ronald Torreyes (#22) and outfielder Juan Duran (#28).

Upcoming Probable Pitchers (All game times are Dayton time) (All games on WONE 980 AM and www.daytondragons.com)

Friday (8:00 p.m.): Dayton RH Daniel Renken (4-8, 3.75) at Quad Cities RH Trevor Rosenthal (3-7, 3.57)

Saturday (7:35 p.m.): Dayton RH Kyle Lotzkar (1-1, 5.74) at Cedar Rapids RH P.J. Jang (0-1, 3.68)

Sunday, July 17 (3:05 p.m.): Dayton RH Josh Smith (8-4, 2.36) at Cedar Rapids RH Brian Diemer (7-6, 3.25)

Monday, July 18 (1:05 p.m.): Dayton RH Stalin Gerson (3-1, 1.93) at Cedar Rapids LH Max Russell (5-9, 3.35)

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