Hillcats Game Notes
August 21, 2007 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Lynchburg Hillcats News Release
WINSTON-SALEM WARTHOGS (19-34, 57-65) @ LYNCHBURG HILLCATS (24-30, 53-68)
AUGUST 21st, 2007 -- 6:05 PM (DOUBLEHEADER)
CALVIN FALWELL FIELD AT LYNCHBURG CITY STADIUM
GAME 1: RHP FAUTINO DE LOS SANTOS (1-0, 4.00) vs. RHP DEREK HANKINS (8-4, 5.09)
GAME 1: LHP CLAYTON RICHARD (8-10, 3.44) vs. RHP SERGUEY LINARES (4-6, 4.52)
THE HILLCATS...open their final homestand of the year with a doubleheader against the Winston-Salem Warthogs at City Stadium...Enjoyed their final scheduled off day the year on Monday...Had their game with Wilmington suspended midway through the third inning on Sunday (see below)...Have lost back-to-back games after reeling off six wins in their previous seven games ...Are in a stretch of playing 15 out of 18 games at City Stadium (6-3)...Are still just 26-44 (.371) in their last 70 games...
THE WARTHOGS...Enter this series having lost back-to-back games..Are a league-worst 19-34 (.358) in the second half...Despite going 38-31 (.551) in the first-stanza, finished 7.0-games behind the front-running Kinston Indians...Have committed a league-high 166 errors...
2007 vs. WINSTON-SALEM: Winston-Salem leads the season series eight games to seven...They captured the 2006 season series, 12 games to 8...Overall, the Hillcats have an advantage in the lifetime series 136-118 (.535) including a 75-52 (.591) mark in 127 all-time games at City Stadium...These two teams last met in the post-season in 2003, with Winston-Salem sweeping Lynchburg in the Mills' Cup...
SUSPENDED GAME: Sunday's series finale between Lynchburg and Wilmington at Frawley Stadium was suspended to due rain...The game was scoreless midway through the third inning at the time of the stoppage...The two teams will conclude the suspended game on Friday at City Stadium followed by a seven-inning game...
LET'S PLAY TWO: The Hillcats have gone 5-5 in 10 doubleheader games this year...Interestingly, the Hillcats have not played a twinbill since June 13th at Grainger Stadium in Kinston...Winston-Salem is 4-8 this season in doubleheader contests...
RECORD WITHIN REACH: OF Pedro Powell has a league-best 61 steals (74 attempts)...The 23-year-old led the league last year with a Hillcats' record 63 stolen bases and is attempting to become just the 2nd player in league history to win back-to-back stolen base crowns...Jack Mitchell led the league in the category in both 1952 and 1953...
STOP SWITCHING: OF Pedro Powell is batting 23-70, .329-0-5 since batting exclusively from the right side of the plate beginning on August 1st...The 23-year old is a natural right-handed hitter...
STREAKING: OF Brad Corley extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a 2-for-4 performance on Saturday night...He is batting 15-41, .366-1-7 over the stretch...
LEAGUE LEADER: OF Brad Corley has a league-best 81 RBIs...The slugger led all Pirates' farmhands a year ago with 100 runs batted in...Corley is also among the league leaders in hits (T-1st/129) and extra-base hits (2nd/51)...
Carolina League Stories from August 21, 2007
- Big Inning Carries Myrtle Beach to Victory in Opener - Wilmington Blue Rocks
- Terrazas Terrific in Debut, Leads Birds to 10-8 Win - Myrtle Beach Pelicans
- Winston-Salem and Lynchburg Split Doubleheader - Winston-Salem Dash
- Keys Suspended in the Ninth - Frederick Keys
- Avs and Keys suspended in ninth - Salem Red Sox
- K-Tribe Win Rain-Shortened Game - Kinston Indians
- Pelicans Game Notes - Myrtle Beach Pelicans
- Hillcats Game Notes - Lynchburg Hillcats
- Avalanche Game Notes - Salem Red Sox
- K-Tribe Game Notes - Kinston Indians
- George Brett Not Coming To Frawley Stadium - Wilmington Blue Rocks
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