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IronPigs Game Notes

May 25, 2012 - International League (IL1)
Lehigh Valley IronPigs News Release


The IronPigs (28-19) play Game Two of a four-game series against the second-place Charlotte Knights (25-23) at Knights Stadium... Last night, the two teams split a pair of games. Lehigh Valley won the continuation of the suspended game on May 4 with a walk-off, 5-4 victory; but Charlotte won the night cap, 3-3... The Pigs, who have started 0-1 in this eight-game South Division road trip, have still won seven of their of their last 10 games and gone 10-4 in their last 14 contests... The Knights -- the White Sox top affiliate -- have now won back-to-back games and six of their last nine affairs. The steady Knights have never been more than three games above .500 or more than three games below .500 this season.

RHP Austin Hyatt (2-5, 5.52) will start for LHV against RHP Charlie Shirek (4-3, 3.76).

First-Pitch tonight is scheduled for 7:15 p.m.

WALK THIS WAY!:

With the 5-4 win in "Game One" last night, the Pigs now have 4 walk-off victories in 2012 (4/24 vs. BUF; 5-2 vs. CHA; 7-6 vs. LOU) -- their first all-time "away" from Coca-Cola Park!... They had a franchise-record 7 in 2011 (then 1 more in postseason) and now have 23 walk-off victories all-time.

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS:

The Pigs are now 19-5 at home -- which is tied with Omaha for tops in Triple-A and for 4th in all of MiLB (St. Lucie 17-3; Greensboro 20-4, San Jose 19-4)... As the home team, LHV is averaging 4.2 R/G (100/24)... As the road team (9-14 record), they're averaging just 2.7 R/G (63/23)... With the win on 5/16, LHV went above .500 at Coca-Cola Park* (153-152) for the first time in team history...

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