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Frankoff's Pitching And 4-Run Inning Lead To 6-1 Vermont Win Thursday

June 23, 2011 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT --- Seth Frankoff tossed seven strong innings and the Vermont Lake Monsters used a four-run fourth inning to defeat the Connecticut Tigers 4-1 in New York-Penn League action Thursday night at historic Centennial Field.

Frankoff (1-0) allowed one run on five hits with one walk and six strikeouts for his first win of the season with Vermont. A 27th-round selection in the 2010 draft out of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington who pitched earlier this season for the Burlington Bees (Single-A Midwest League), Frankoff threw just 80 pitches (56 strikes) over his seven innings.

 The seven-inning outing marked the first time that a Vermont starter has pitched seven innings in an outing since Brad Peacock did it three times for the Lake Monsters in 2008.

Vermont has hitless over the first three innings off Connecticut starter Luis Sanz, but Chris Affinito led off the fourth with a double and scored two batters later on a Chad Oberracker RBI double to left to tie the game at one. Dan Petitti followed with a line drive single to left scoring Chad Lewis, then two batter later Michael Fabiaschi grounded a two-out, two-run single to center scoring Oberacker and Petitti to give the Lake Monsters a 4-1 lead.

The Lake Monsters added single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, including back-to-back one-out doubles from Jordan Tripp and Affinito to plate a run in the fifth and got an unearned run in the sixth as Fabiaschi walked, moved to second on a single before scoring on a wild pitch and passed ball.

Vermont reliever T.J. Walz struckout the side in the eighth and Logan Chitwood worked a hitless ninth inning for the Lake Monsters, while Sanz (0-1) was charged with five runs on seven hits with one walk and six strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings for the loss.

Affinito went 2-for-4 with one run, two doubles and an RBI for Vermont (4-2), while Oberacker and Chih Fang-Pan each had two hits in the Lake Monsters 11-hit attack. Wright went 2-for-2 with the only run for Connecticut (3-3). 

Vermont and Connecticut continue the three-game series at Centennial on Friday night with Argenis Paez scheduled to start on the mound for the Lake Monsters beginning at 7:05 pm.

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