Hillcats game notes
Published on May 26, 2008 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Hill City Howlers News Release
LYNCHBURG HILLCATS (18-31) @ POTOMAC NATIONALS (30-18)
May 26th, 2008 -- 1:05 PM
@ G. Richard Pfitzner Stadium
LHP Brian Holliday (1-2, 4.50) vs. RHP Craig Stammen (0-1, 1.98)
THE HILLCATS: Lynchburg lost 6-1 to Wilmington and have now dropped the first two games of this three-game series to ensure their fifth straight series defeat...The Hillcats have now lost 12 out of 15 and are a season-high 12 games under .500...Tonight marks the third of seven games in a row on the road...The Cats are in the midst of 15-out-of-18 away from the Hill City...
2007 vs. POTOMAC: The Hillcats were just 5-14 against the Nationals in 2007...Lynchburg still holds the all-time series edge 133-129 and they are 60-65 against the P-Nats at Pfitzner Stadium...
OLD HABITS: The Hillcats have now dropped 13 out of 16 to fall to 18-31 on the season...Last season the Cats were the streakiest team in the Carolina League...After a 12-12 start Lynchburg alternated cold and hot streaks the entire season...In the five cold streaks the Cats were a combined 9-62 (.127 winning %) and during their four hot streaks went a combined 34-9 (.791 winning %)...Lynchburg ended the first half by losing 14 out of 16 and finished the season by falling in 16 out of 18 games...During those two stretches they suffered through an eight-game losing streak and a team-high 11-game losing skid...
BLANKED AGAIN: On Friday the Hillcats were shutout for the sixth time this season in 47 games when the Blue Rocks blanked them 8-0...It was the first time Lynchburg had put up a donut since the sixteenth game of the season as they were blanked five times in the first 16 games...Last season the Cats were shutout seven times in 137 games...
SCORELESS STREAK: Friday night RHP Eric Krebs worked three innings of scoreless relief to earn his second save of the season and he has now tossed 13 and 2/3 consecutive innings of scoreless baseball...That streak is the longest of the season for a Hillcat and the longest in the three-year professional career of the righthander...
GIMME FIVE: LHP Daniel Moskos lasted two and 2/3 innings before being removed from last night's game...A Hillcats starter has failed to go five innings of work in nine straight starts...Those starters have a combined ERA of 10.12 (39 earned runs in 34 and 2/3 innings)...Over the last 16 games a Cats starter has only gone five innings of work two times and they have a combined ERA of 9.74 (66 earned runs over 61 innings of work)...Lynchburg starters opened the season by going five innings or more in eight of their first nine starts ...
SWITCHING SPOTS: This year 2B Angel Gonzalez has made seven errors in 43 games at second base after he committed 46 errors in 105 games last season at shortstop... He has gone 19 games without committing an error and over a longer stretch has only committed one error over his last 26 games played...
TAKING OFF: C Steve Lerud has not thrown out a potential base stealer in his last 25 attempts...After starting the season 17-of-41 (42%) in throwing out runners, he now has tossed out 17-of-77 (22%)...Last season Lerud led the Carolina League by throwing out just under 40% of potential base thieves...
WHERE'S THE LOVE: 3B Jim Negrych entered the day first in the league in hits (65) and batting average (.369), second in runs scored (33) and on-base percentage (.441)...The former sixth round pick from 2006 recorded 17 multi-hit games in his first 28 starts this season, reached safely in 27 of his first 28 games played and he is hitting .490 (25-for-51) with men in scoring position...Yet somehow he has not received one Carolina League Player-of-the-Week honors despite leading the league in four offensive categories in the first month of the season...
CHANGING THINGS UP: Baseball America said LHP Tony Watson has the "Best Changeup" in the Pirates minor league system...The ninth round selection in the 2007 struckout 58 batters in 67.2 ip and walked just eight...
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