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Expos win their sixth straight game with a 5-3 victory over the ValleyCats

September 7, 2005 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
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TROY, NY --- Vermont scored five runs early, Gene Yost picked up his sixth win and Jamie Lehman struckout seven in three innings of relief as the Expos won their sixth straight game with a 5-3 victory over the Tri-City ValleyCats in New York-Penn League action Wednesday night at Bruno Stadium.

Tri-City starter Ryan McKeller (6-5), who had allowed just one run on two hits over 13 innings in two victories over the Expos earlier this season, struggled with his control on Wednesday and allowed five runs on five hits with three walks and three hit batters to take the loss.

Jose Contreras led off the game with a double and scored one out later on a sacrifice fly by Francisco Plasencia. The Expos scored 2 runs in the second on a one-out hit batter, walk, single to load bases, RBI hit batter and RBI forceout by Contreras for a 3-0 lead.

The ValleyCats got an unearned run in the bottom of the second to cut the deficit to two and had a runner in scoring position with no outs, but Yost got a popout and back-to-back strikeouts to end the threat.

Vermont built the lead to four with a run in the third on a Jonathan Castro leadoff single and a two-out RBI single from Leonard Davis, while the Expos took a 5-1 lead in the fifth on an RBI forceout from Luis Apodaca.

Yost had retired nine straight batters when he allowe an unearned run in the fifth and an RBI single to James Cooper in the sixth. Tri-City had the tying runs on first and second in the sixth when Yost got Lou Manzella to foul out to end the inning and the night for Yost (6-5), who gave up three runs (one earned) on six hits with five strikeouts in six innings.

Lehman took over for Yost to start the seventh and struckout the first four batters he faced. After giving up a one-out triple to Koby Clemens in the eighth, Lehman struckout Mark Ori and Eric Cavers to end the eighth. Lehman struckout Cooper to start the ninth and ended the game with back-to-back groundouts for his first save of the season.

The five runs mark the sixth straight game that the Expos have scored five or more runs, the first time that a Vermont team has done that since June 26-July 1, 1999. The Expos have scored 40 total runs (6.67 per game) during this six-game winning streak, the team's longest since a seven-game win streak in late August of 2001.

Vermont (27-48), who have won the first four games of this five-game series with the ValleyCats, will play its final game of the 2005 season on Thursday night at Tri-City with Clint Everts getting the start in the last game the franchise will play as the Vermont Expos before changing the name next month.

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