Hillcats Game Notes
Published on July 10, 2008 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Hill City Howlers News Release
THE HILLCATS: Prior to last night's rain out and off-day on Tuesday Lynchburg finished a three-game series against Frederick with a 5-1 win in the rubber match on Monday night at City Stadium...The Hillcats have now won five straight series, seven out of eight games and 11 out of their last 14...Tonight is the seventh and eighth games of nine in a row at home for the Cats...
VS. KINSTON: This season Lynchburg is 6-8 against Kinston and 3-4 in City Stadium...In the all-time series the Hillcats are 137-133 against the Indians...Last year the K-Tribe took the season series 12-8 over the Cats...These two teams met for seven consecutive games the last time they played and Kinston won five out of seven, including a three-game sweep of Lynchburg at Grainger Stadium in the last three games they played...Since that sweep by the Indians to start the second half, the Hillcats have won five straight series...
ALONE AT THE TOP: After Potomac's loss last night Lynchburg is now alone in first place for the first time since June 13th of last year...The Hillcats were in first place with six games left in the half...Unfortunately they finished the first half by losing seven straight and 14 of their last 16 games to fall to third place...
NOT SO SOGGY SUMMER: Last night the Hillcats were rained out for just the second time all season...They also had one game suspended in the third inning...That makes three postponed games and 88 games played...Last season the Cats had nine games postponed and 137 games played...All three of their postponements this season have been at home...
RUBBER MATCHES: On Monday night the Hillcats won there sixth straight rubber match and are now 8-4 in rubber matches this season...They have now won three of the last four series by taking the deciding game of a three-game set...
DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE: Monday night OF Jamie Romak hit two home runs in a game for the second time this season (only Hillcat to accomplish the feat in 2008)...It was the fifth time he has had a multi-homer game in the Green & Gold (the other three last season) and the seventh time in his career...
HOME RUN? Carolina League umpire A.J. Johnson had two controversial calls on home runs balls during the last two series at City Stadium...The latest was on Monday night on whether or not a Jamie Romak drive that went well over the foul pole in left was fair or foul...He called it fair and Keys starting pitcher Jake Renshaw did not agree...Renshaw argued and was almost immediately thrown out of the game...On Thursday night against Salem, Johnson ruled that a fly ball off the bat of Miles Durham went over the wall in left for a home run and then bounced back into play off of a light pole beyond the wall...Avalanche Manager Jim Pankovits was not pleased with the call...The home run ended a 12-inning game in walk-off fashion, and Pankovits followed both umpires all the way to the clubhouse arguing the call...
STREAKING SAFELY: 3B Jim Negrych has now reached safely in 20 consecutive games dating back to June 14th...That breaks the longest streak by a Hillcat this season (19, Brian Friday) and is still 10 shy of tying the longest of the season in the CL (30, Willie Cabrera)...Negrych went 0-for-3 Sunday night with a walk and saw his 17-game hit-streak come to an end...It was the longest hit streak of the season by a Hillcat, it tied Lee Evans (2000) for the sixth longest streak ever by a Hillcat and came just one game shy of the longest streak in the Carolina League this season (Willie Cabrera, Myrtle Beach)...Over that stretch he went 28-for-64 (.438) with ten doubles, a triple, 14 runs scored and seven RBI...
TONIGHT'S OPPOSING PITCHERS: Game one starter RHP Hector Rondon was a signed as a free agent by the Cleveland Indians back in 2004...He pitched for the Dominican Indians in '04 and went 3-3 with a 1.65 ERA in 15 games (12 starts)...In 2006 he pitched for the GCL Indians and went 3-4 with a 5.13 ERA in 11 starts...A season ago he pitched for Low-A Lake County and went 7-10 with a 4.37 ERA in 27 starts...This season the righthander has gone 7-3 with 3.06 ERA for Kinston...After a rocky April (0-2, 5.57 ERA) he has gone 7-1 with a 2.27 ERA since...He has won seven straight decisions and in his last four starts he 4-0 with a 0.37 ERA (one earned run in 24 and 2/3 innings pitched)...In two starts against Lynchburg he is 1-0 with 0.90 ERA (one earned run in 10 innings)...Game two starter RHP Sung-Wei Tseng was signed in 2006 as a free agent out of Taiwan after pitching for the Chinese Taipei team at the World Baseball Classic (pitched 2/3 of an inning and gave up two runs)...He began his Indians career with Kinston last year and went 6-9 with a 4.05 ERA in 26 starts...He advanced to Double-A this season and moved to the bullpen...He struggled with Akron posting a 8.80 ERA in nine games for the Aeros...He came back down to Advanced-A and has gone 0-2 with a 4.05 ERA and one save for the K-Tribe...Tonight is his first start of the season and his third appearance against Lynchburg...In his two outings against the Hillcats he has pitched three innings and allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits...
Carolina League Stories from July 10, 2008
- Blue Rocks take pitcher's duel - Wilmington Blue Rocks
- Tribe splits doubleheader - Kinston Indians
- Early runs enough for Wilmington - Potomac Nationals
- Rain ruins Avs date with Pelicans - Salem RidgeYaks
- Pelicans and Avs rained out in game two - Myrtle Beach Pelicans
- The K-Tribe Heats Up July With a Six Game Homestand - Kinston Indians
- Three Long Balls Power Frederick Past Warthogs - Frederick Keys
- Home Runs Carry Keys Past Winston-Salem - Winston-Salem Dash
- Wilmington to Remain a Kansas City Royals Affiliate Through 2010 - Wilmington Blue Rocks
- Hillcats Game Notes - Hill City Howlers
- Lowrance leaps to Double-A Harrisburg - Potomac Nationals
- Warthogs Start 3 Game Series With Keys At Noon - Winston-Salem Dash
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