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Ducks Steal Opener

August 26, 2019 - Atlantic League (AtL)
Southern Maryland Blue Crabs News Release


Central Islip, NY - The Blue Crabs are extremely successful this season when scoring first. But in back-to-back crucial games, Southern Maryland has scored first and dropped the contest, tonight's was a series opening loss at the hands of the Long Island Ducks by a score of 3-2.

In the third inning Jon Griffin led off the frame by reaching on an error. Travis Witherspoon would end up bringing Griffin and Rubi Silva home thanks to a bunt single and another error, and the good guys were on top 2-0.

The next scoring came in the sixth. With two outs Rey Fuentes walked stole second, and an error allowed him to score.

The next inning was the one that tipped the scales. In Dusten Knight's (L, 1-4) seventh inning of work a Deibenson Romero double followed by a John Aposotolo single brought in a pair of runs, and suddenly the Blue Crabs had their lead slip between the cracks.

Long Island shut it down in the final frames, taking the contest by a score of 3-2.

The Blue Crabs will return home Friday August 30th for the series opener of a four game set with the York Revolution, with a 5:05 p.m. first pitch with game two of a double header to follow.

Catch all Blue Crabs home games on the Blue Crabs Broadcast Network, live streamed on YouTube (@SOMDBlueCrabs) Facebook (@SOMDBlueCrabs) and Twitter (@BlueCrabs).

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