Kinston Comes Back to Beat Myrtle Beach 5-3
Published on July 1, 2011 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Kinston Indians News Release
Kinston scored five unanswered runs, coming from behind for a 5-3 victory Friday night at Myrtle Beach. The rubber match win gave the K-Tribe (7-2, 45-33) another series win. Kinston has now won 12 of their last 13 series, going 31-11 since May 16th. Kinston will return home to Historic Grainger Stadium for a Holiday Weekend homestand with Fireworks on Saturday and Monday night!
Kinston starter Drew Pomeranz entered the game with the lowest ERA in the entire league at 1.81. The first round draft pick ran into trouble in the second inning when Vinny DiFazio started with a walk. Travis Adair then doubled to move DiFazio to third base. With the infield drawn in, David Paisano snuck a seeing eye grounder through the middle to give the Pelicans a 1-0 lead. With two outs in the inning, Andres James legged out an infield single to drive home Adair. The Pelicans flew out of the second frame with a 2-0 lead. The Pelicans would add a run in the fifth inning when Jared Prince hit a home run to left field. It was the fourth homer of the season for Prince.
Myrtle Beach starting pitcher Robbie Ross came into the game with a Carolina League leading eight wins (8-2). He backed up his dominance keeping the K-Tribe scoreless through six innings on four hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. Despite the dominance of Ross, Kinston made it a game, waiting for the Myrtle Beach bullpen to take over.
Adam Abraham started the seventh by doubling off of reliever Ryan Kelly. Abraham scored on a wild pitch and RBI single from Tyler Cannon. Myrtle Beach short stop Leury Garcia allowed Kinston back in to the game with a fielding error. Justin Toole's grounder could not be handled and both Cannon and Toole advanced an extra base with heads up base running, taking advantage when the ball wound up in left field. Both runners scored thanks to Tyler Holt's two out double down the left field line. The clutch hit tied the score at three.
Anthony Gallas broke the tie with a solo home run to start the eighth inning. The monster shot was Gallas' first homer in the Carolina League, he was called up from Low-A Lake County on June 13th. Adam Abraham helped add to the Kinston advantage by blasting his second double of the game with one out in the inning. He stood at third base after a passed ball charged to Myrtle Beach catcher Vinny DiFazio. Chase Burnette, pinch hitting for Justin Toole, laced a picture perfect RBI single to left field to bring Abraham home.
The advantage was enough for closer Preston Guilmet who picked up his 19th save of the season with some drama thrown in thanks to Burnette. With one out Andres James popped it towards the Pelicans dugout. Burnette was upended by the protective railing as he made the catch. He tumbled over the railing on to the cement dugout floor. After a tense pause, Burnette got up to a cheer of approval and was pushed back on to the field with the help of some Pelicans players. Francisco Jimenez nearly spanned the gap between Pomeranz and Guilmet, departing after yielding a two out single in the eighth inning to David Paisano. Jimenez fired 2 1/3 shutout innings of relief with two strikeouts for the win and Chris Jones retired the only man he saw to end the inning. Pomeranz gave up three runs on six hits through 5 1/3 innings. Pomeranz walked three and struck out four.
Kinston will return home for a Fireworks filled weekend home stand against the Baltimore Orioles affiliate Frederick! Fireworks after the 6:30 pm games on both Saturday and Monday night! 1:30 pm afternoon game on Sunday! T.J. House takes the mound for Kinston on Saturday night.
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