Harrisburg wins over New Britain
June 6, 2009 - Eastern League (EL1)
Harrisburg Senators News Release
On Saturday night in front of 5,324 at Metro Bank Park the Senators homered their way to an 8-3 win over the New Britain Rock Cats. Harrisburg knocked out four solo home runs en route to the win. Edgardo Baez, Joel Guzman, Ricardo Nanita, and Leonard Davis all homered for the Sens to help them overcome an early 3-1 deficit.
Carlos Martinez started and earned the win for Harrisburg going six strong innings and allowing just a single earned run, a home run by Whit Robbins. The two teams combined to commit six errors with all the errors contributing to runs.
Cole DeVries started for New Britain and fell to 4-5 going five plus innings allowing eight hits and four earned runs. Three relievers followed for the Cats.
Jack Spradlin pitched the final three innings for the Senators earning his second save and continuing the great efforts by the Sens bullpen over the past week. Harrisburg's bullpen hasn't allowed a run since last Sunday at Bowie.
Bill Rhinehart had three hits for the Sens and Davis and Guzman both had two. Whit Robbins and Erik Lis both had two hits for the Rock Cats.
The Senators won for the fifth straight time and go for their first series sweep of the season on Sunday afternoon at 2:00pm. LH Cory VanAllen takes the hill for the Sens and he'll be opposed by RH Chris Gutierrez who is making his first start for New Britain.
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