Karr Drives Captains to Win

Published on August 2, 2010 under American Association (AA)
Shreveport-Bossier Captains News Release


SHREVEPORT, La. - For seven innings on Monday night, Wichita Wingnuts (and former Shreveport-Bossier Captains) starter Luke Massetti was great, allowing three hits, no runs and no walks. However, he allowed four straight hits and three runs to start his night, and a double to end it as the Captains got three RBIs from Palmer Karr and a strong pitching performance by Cardoza Tucker to take their series opener 4-2 in front of 875 at Fair Grounds Field.

Jovanny Rosario led off the bottom of the first inning with a fly-ball double over the leftfielder Steve Pearson, and moved to third on Bryan Sabatella's bunt single to second, where second baseman Cesar Suarez got tangled up with first base umpire Bryan Childe on his way to try to field the ball. Christopher Garcia then laced an RBI double down the leftfield line, and Karr smacked one off the wall in left for a two-run double, giving the Captains (42-30, 13-12 2nd half) an early three-run cushion.

Massetti (4-7) settled down after that, retiring seven in a row before giving up two hits and no runs in the third, and then nine in a row after a leadoff single in the fourth. He worked around a one-out double in the seventh before leaving after Sabatella's leadoff double in the eighth.

Lefty Dustin Pease came in for Wichita (35-38, 15-10) and struck out Garcia but Karr bounced a single up the middle for the Captains' fourth and final run.

Meanwhile, Tucker (2-3) retired the first six men he faced and did not have two on against him until the fourth, when Michael Bell bounced into a 6-3 double play to end the inning. Suarez got to Tucker with a solo homer to start the fifth, but the righty got out of a two-runner jam later that inning and pitched a perfect sixth inning, before Jorge Delgado went to second on an error by Rosario with one out in the sixth. After Jeff Christy grounded out, Steve Pearson hit an RBI double over Rosario to make it 3-2, but Tucker got Joe Spiers on strikes to end the inning.

Jameson Maj pitched a perfect eighth with two strikeouts before Hector Carrasco got a game-ending double play after a one-out single to pick up his 13th save of 2010.

Notes: Neither team walked a batter in the two-hour, 22-minute game.The first four hitters in the Captains' lineup were 8-for-16 with all four runs scored and all four RBIs.Massetti's eight strikeouts tied a season high.In addition to driving in both Wichita runs, Suarez and Pearson were the only two Wingnuts with two hits.

The Shreveport-Bossier Captains continue their nine-game, 10-day, season-long homestand with game two of a three-game series against the Wichita Wingnuts, at 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday, August 3. It is Captain Morgan & Maker's Mark Twofer Tuesday, with two-for-one admission to the ballpark and two-for-one Captain Morgan and Maker's Mark drinks throughout the evening. All games are broadcast on ESPN Radio, KRMD-1340 AM as well as streaming live on supertalk1340.com. For information on tickets, promotions, advertising, and other opportunities with the Captains, check out the team's Web site at www.sbcaptains.com, or call the Fair Grounds Field office at (318) 636-5555.

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