NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Expos Bats Heat Up

Published on August 28, 2003 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT --- One night after Chris Goodman gave up one run over eight innings in just his second start for Vermont, Nehomar Ochoa tossed six shutout innings in fourth start as the Expos scored a season-high nine runs in a 9-1 victory over the Lowell Spinners in New York-Penn League action Thursday night at Centennial Field.

Ochoa (2-0) scatter five hits with one walk and five strikeouts over his five six innings for the win and lowered his ERA to 1.57 with four earned runs over 23 innings in his four starts. With a shutout inning from Brattleboro native and former University of Vermont pitcher Jeff Dixon, the trio of Ochoa, Goodman and Dixon have combined to go 5-0 with a 0.99 ERA in 15 combined games since joining Vermont in early August.

The Expos scored five unearned runs in the bottom of the second following a two-out error by Lowell starting pitcher Kyle Jackson, making his first appearance with the Spinners since being promoted from the Gulf Coast League.

Brad Ditter scored on the Jackson error and the Expos followed with a Franklyn Jimenez RBI single and a two-run double from Kory Casto, his second hit of the night and sixth straight after going 4-for-4 on Wednesday. Josh Whitesell closed out the second-inning scoring with an RBI single scoring Casto.

Vermont added a pair of runs in the fourth inning on a two-run homer from Franklyn Jimenez, his first home run of the season, and two more runs in the fifth on a Tuttle RBI single and Jimenez RBI forceout to give Jimenez a Expos season-high four RBI.

Casto had a double and triple as five different Expos had two hits in the game, while three players also scored a pair of runs as Vermont bettered the eight runs in a game that they had scored three different times during the season. The Expos have scored eight or more runs four times this season, three coming against Lowell.

Jackson (0-1) gave up the five unearned runs on four hits with two walks and two strikeouts over three innings for Lowell (36-32), which lost for the 11th time in the last 17 games. Melvin Reyes accounted for the Spinners only run with an RBI single in the seventh inning to score Claudio Arias.

With the two-game sweep of Lowell, the Expos recorded their first series sweep of season. Vermont has also won each of its last three games at Centennial Field and seven of their last 10. But the Expos now hit the road, where they are 4-30 this season, for three games at Brooklyn this weekend before returning to Centennial next Monday at 5:05 p.m. to begin a three-game series with Lowell to end the season.

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