Harrisburg Senators game notes
Published on September 4, 2006 under Eastern League (EL1)
Harrisburg Senators News Release
Today's Game... The Senators and New Britain finish up their seasons this afternoon with game five of their series. It's also the season finale for both teams. The Senators trail the season series with New Britain seven games to six, but have an opportunity to even up the season series this afternoon. The Senators are 5-3 on the current road trip, their first winning road trip of the season.
Last Time Out... Sunday afternoon the Senators and New Britain Rock Cats were delayed almost an hour, but that delay didn't slow down the offenses in the Sens 11-5 loss to New Britain. In the top of the first Cristian Guerrero and Salomon Manriquez both hit two-run home runs with two outs to give the Sens a 4-0 lead before New Britain had even come to bat. The Rock Cats received the first of five two-runs home run in the first inning to cut the lead in half 4-2. In the second they received the first of three home runs off the bat of Garrett Guzman to tie the game. The Rock Cats took the lead in the in the fourth when Denard Span hit a solo home run to give New Britain a 5-4 lead. Guzman homered two more times, both of them two-run home runs, to help put the game out of reach. Shairon Martis made his first start for the Senators. The 18 year old pitched five innings and allowed seven runs on eight hits. He gave up four of the five home runs hit by the Rock Cats. Dan Kolb pitched two innings and infielder Greg Thissen pitched the final inning, the third game he has pitched in this season. Cristian Guerrero had three hits and three rbi's for the Senators and Marco Yepez chipped in two hits in a losing effort.
Big Finish... The Senators struggled for much of July and into early August, but have played good baseball the past two weeks. The Sens have won nine of their past 16 games and their 66 wins are the most by a Senators team since the 2002 team finished 79-63.
All-Stars and Team Awards... Kory Casto was named as the Eastern League Rookie of the Year on Thursday. He was also named to the post-season all-star team as an outfielder. Melvin Dorta was named to the post-season all-star team as the utility player. The Senators players and coaching staff also announced their awards and they are as follows: MVP: Kory Casto; Most Competitive Player: Beltran Perez; Fan Favorite: Melvin Dorta; Carl J. Dordaro Leadership Award: Dan DeMent; and the Mort Rosen Community Service Award: Devin Perrin.
Major League Senators... With the addition of Beltran Perez to the Washington Nationals, eight different players assigned to the Senators in 2006 have made it to the major leagues this season. Melvin Dorta went to the big leagues earlier this season, and was called up again yesterday by the Nats. RHP Brett Campbell was called up from New Orleans to the Nats yesterday after having spent time in Harrisburg this season. Along with Perez, Campbell, and Dorta, OF's Alex Escobar and Ryan Church, RHP's Shawn Hill, Roy Corcoran and Chris Schroder were also assigned to the Sens at one point this season and have been on the Nationals this year as well.
Busy Roster... The Senators have used 57 different players this season with the newest player on the roster Shairon Martis. The Sens have also had several MLB players doing rehab assignments on their roster as well. They've had five join them on MLB rehabs, and then two more players, Alex Escobar and Shawn Hill, who were on the roster to start the season, then promoted to the big leagues, then came back to do a rehab assignment. The five other MLB rehabs were Pedro Astacio, Tony Armas Jr., Ryan Drese, Robert Fick and Jose Vidro.
Today's Starting Pitcher... RHP Colin Balester makes his third start of the season for the Senators. Balester was selected by the Expos in the 4th round of the 2004 draft out of Huntington Beach HS, California. Since being promoted to the Senators, he's 1-0 in two starts with a 2.31 ERA. His last outing was 8/29 at Bowie picking up his first AA win going 5.2 innings allowing three earned runs while striking out eight.
With Potomac this season he was 4-5 with a 5.19 ERA in 23 games/22 starts. His season highs with Potomac were 7 ip (4x); 8h (2x); 8r/8er; 4bb (4x); and 8k. His best outing was on 6/20 at Wilmington when he went 5.2 ip 2h 0r 0er 3bb's and 3k's. He had nine quality starts (six innings or more and three runs or less) out of his 22 starts.
The 20 year old was signed on 7/19/04 and was then sent to the Gulf Coast League Expos where he went 1-2 with a 2.19 ERA in five games. He spent 2005 with Savannah going 8-6 with a 3.67 ERA in 24 games/23 starts going 125.0 innings while striking out 95 batters and walking 42.
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