CarL1 Lynchburg Hillcats

Hillcats at Nationals Tonight

Published on July 15, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Lynchburg Hillcats News Release


THE HILLCATS: Lynchburg lost 3-2 yesterday afternoon at Potomac and have now dropped the first two games of this four-game series...Today is the third game of the set against Potomac and game six of a seven-game road trip...They have started this trip 2-3 and have a series victory over the Dash...

VS. POTOMAC: The Hillcats are 7-5 against the Nationals this season and have won all three series in which they have met, including their only series thus far at Pfitzner Stadium...Last season the two teams split the season series 10-10 and the P-Nats were just one of two teams the Cats had a .500 record or better against last year...Lynchburg won the final five games against each other last season...In the all-time series Lynchburg has the edge 150-141 and they are 68-72 in Woodbridge...The Hillcats had won 12 of the last 15 games between these two teams and had won six of the last seven games at the Pfitz before this series got under way...

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: Lynchburg, the winners of the first half championship in the Northern Division, just took two out of three from Winston-Salem, the first half Southern Division champions...Now the Hillcats are playing a four-game series with Potomac, the 2008 Mills Cup Champions in the Carolina League...

LEFT ABOARD: Yesterday Lynchburg got the lead-off runner on in six of the nine innings but did not bring home any of those runners...The Hillcats smacked a double to start three of those frames, had two men on with nobody out in two of them and had men on first and third in the eighth inning with nobody out...The Cats left 11 men on base on went 2-for-15 (.133) with men in scoring position...

IT'S A THIRD INNING THING: All five of the runs the Hillcats have scored in this series have come in the third inning...They plated all three of their runs in game one in the third inning to take a 3-2 lead in a game they eventually lost 7-3 on Monday night...Yesterday they grabbed a 2-0 advantage in the third, but were edged 3-2 by Potomac...

STRANGELY ENOUGH: LHP Justin Wilson allowed two runs in five innings of work yesterday and took a no-decision in the Hillcats loss...He also went five innings and allowed two runs in his last start and took the loss in that outing...In the eight starts this season Wilson has gone five innings or more the Hillcats are just 3-5 and have lost the last three, despite the fact that he is posting a 3.79 earned run average in those appearances...In the nine starts he has failed to go five innings Lynchburg has gone 6-3, even though he has a 9.85 ERA in those outings...The Cats have given Wilson 4.3 runs of support per game in the starts he has gone five innings or more and 6.7 runs of support in the starts he hasn't...

WE MEET AGAIN: OF Lastings Milledge played his second game of three with the Hillcats and went 1-for-5 with an RBI double...The run-scoring two-bagger was his first hit and run driven in as a Cat...Yesterdays game also featured another former major leaguer Dmitri Young, who was playing for Potomac...Young, also known as Da Meat Hook, has over 12 years of major league experience under his belt, is a two-time All-Star (2003 and 2007) and was the 2007 Comeback Player of the Year...He accounted for the first run of the game for the Nationals with his first home run of the season...Milledge and Young were teammates last season at the big-league level with the Washington Nationals...Milledge was the number one overall prospect in the New York Mets organization (2005 and 2006) and was traded to the Pirates from the Nationals on June 30th along with RHP Joel Hanrahan for former Hillcats OF Nyjer Morgan and LHP Sean Burnett...Last season Milledge spent the majority of the season with Washington and batted .268 with 14 homers, 61 RBI and 24 steals in 138 games with the Nationals...The Hillcats are the sixth team he has played with in 41 games this season (GCL Nationals, Syracuse Chiefs, Washington Nationals, GCL Pirates, Indianapolis Indians)...He is now 1-for-8 with a double and an RBI in his two games with the Green & Gold...

FINDING MORE WATTAGE: C Kris Watts went 3-for-4 yesterday with a double and a bunt base hit...His nine-game hitting streak is his longest of the season and over that time he has gone 14-for-30 (.467) with four doubles, four RBI and three runs scored...The all-star catcher hit .444 in April and was still batting .373 on May 23rd, but from then until before this hitting streak started he was hitting .195 (15-for-77) and his averaged dipped to .298...Watts currently is second in the league with his .323 batting average and is first in the circuit with a .451 on-base percentage...He also has layed down his first two bunt base hits of the season in the last two games...

TONIGHT'S OPPOSING PITCHER: RHP Adam Carr was selected by Washington in the 18th round of the 2005 draft out of Oklahoma State...His junior and final season with the Cowboys he batted .336 with 22 home runs and 86 RBI and led the Big 12 in homers and runs driven in...He only made five appearances on the mound and went 0-1 with a 5.79 ERA with a save for OSU...The Nationals made him a pitcher and he went 1-0 with a 2.95 ERA and one save in 10 games with the GCL Nationals in 2006...He also made six appearances in relief with Savannah and had a 2.25 ERA...The next season he moved up to Advanced-A and posted a 3-1 record with a 1.81 ERA and 10 saves in 41 games with Potomac...He finished the season with Double-A Harrisburg and went 1-0 with a 1.64 ERA and two saves in seven games...Last season he returned to Potomac and went 3-4 with a 6.15 ERA and five saves in 21 games with the Nats...He also spent time with Harrisburg and had a 3-4 record with a 6.95 ERA and 11 saves in 30 games...This season he began with Harrisburg and went 0-1 with a 8.71 ERA in eight games before getting demoted back to Potomac...With the Nats he has gone 0-1 with a 5.79 ERA in 15 games (two starts)...

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