Hillcats Game Notes
Published on August 4, 2008 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Hill City Howlers News Release
THE HILLCATS: Lynchburg lost again last night with a 5-2 defeat at the hands of the Pelicans at Myrtle Beach in their final game of the season at BB&T Coastal Field...The Hillcats have lost a season-high ten games in a row and are still two and a half games behind Wilmington for the final playoff spot in the Northern Division after a Blue Rocks loss last night...They dropped all ten games of ten in a row on the road and completed a stretch of 18 out of 22 away from City Stadium a night ago...
VS. POTOMAC: The P-Nats are 9-5 against the Cats this year and are 5-2 at City Stadium...The Hillcats were just 5-14 against the Nationals in 2007...Lynchburg still holds the all-time series edge 137-135...The Cats snapped a 14-game losing streak to the Nats earlier this season...
HARD TIMES: Since July 10th, Lynchburg has gone just 5-19...Prior to that stretch they had won eight out of nine to move a season-best five games over .500 (12-7)...Last night they finished a stretch of 18 out of 22 on the road...During that time they went 5-17...Tonight the Hillcats start a stretch of 18 of 27 games at home that will finish the regular season...
SERIES SLIDE: Last night Myrtle Beach completed a four-game sweep of the Hillcats...The Cats have now gone winless in eight consecutive series (0-6-2)...This after they won five straight series...Lynchburg was swept in back-to-back series for the first time all season Wednesday...Last night they were swept for the third straight series, it marked the fifth time this year they have been swept and the first time in a four-game set...
HOMESICK: Lynchburg lost all ten games on their road trip that concluded last night...They have also dropped 13 of their last 14 road games to fall to 21-41 on the road...
WORST TIME TO PLAY FIRST: After dropping four games against first-place Myrtle Beach, Lynchburg now plays three games against first-place Potomac and then four more against the Pelicans...The Hillcats entered this 11-game stretch with a season-high six-game losing skid and have now extended that streak to ten games entering this series with the P-Nats...
AVOIDING HISTORY: Tonight Lynchburg looks to snap their 10-game losing streak and avoid matching the longest losing skid in team history...The Hillcats have lost 11 games in a row on two occasions, once in 1996 (4/26-5/6) and once a season ago (8/17-9/1)...
WELCOME BACK: SS Brian Friday made his return to the Lynchburg line-up Thursday night and was 1-for-5 with a single and a run scored...He had not played since June 11th at Myrtle Beach with a back injury...The 2007 third round pick played seven games with the GCL Pirates prior to his return to the Cats...Friday was batting .295 and was one of two Mid-Season All-Star selections for the Hillcats...
TONIGHT'S OPPOSING PITCHER: RHP Hassan Pena was selected by Washington in the 13th round of the 2007 draft out of Palm Beach Community College...He made his professional debut last season with Short-Season Low-A Vermont and went 4-5 with a 4.25 ERA in 13 starts...This season he advanced to Low-A Hagerstown and went 2-2 with a 2.08 ERA in six starts prior to his promotion to Potomac...With the P-Nats he has gone 0-1 with a 5.08 ERA in two starts...He makes his first appearance against Lynchburg tonight...
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