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Kris Wilken drives in game-winning run in 11th, extending hitting streak to 11 games

August 6, 2004 - Eastern League (EL1)
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Bowie, MD - Kris Wilken drove in Val Majewski in the bottom of 11th to extend his hitting streak to 11 games and deliver the 5-4 walkoff win for the Baysox in Eastern League action.

Bowie (58-55) and Akron (51-61) both had twelve hits, including one from every Aero. Walter Young put Bowie on the board with a two-run home run in the first for his 26th of the season. Young had hits in his first three at bats to go 3-for-6 with two runs and two RBIs.

All three Baysox batters in the 11th hit singles to left centerfield in the walkoff win. Val Majewski and Keith Reed had consecutive broken-bat singles off of losing pitcher Lee Gronkiewicz (1-3). Andy Mitchell (3-2) earned the win for Bowie by pitching the last two scoreless innings but had to get out of a bases-loaded jam in the 10th to win.

Young's home run leaves him five-shy of the Baysox single-season record and put Bowie in front, 2-0. With a two-run lead, Baysox starter Robert Averette pitched effectively for six innings allowing two runs on eight hits.

Jay Gibbons, on a rehab start, drove in the third run on a sacrifice fly in the sixth after which the Baysox scored again on three consecutive singles. Averette left after six with a two-run lead, which was squandered by Reliever Rodney Ormond who pitched the seventh and gave up a two-run homer to Tyler Minges tying the score at four.

The third-place Baysox emerged victorious for just the third-time in 11 attempts against fourth-place Akron in the 3:24 marathon while improving to 6-2 in extra-inning games. The Baysox, who remain 10 games behind Altoona and two games behind Erie, will start lefthander Brian Forystek on Saturday against Akron's Jake Dittler.

Baysox Notes: The Orioles' Jay Gibbons was hitless going 0-for-3 in a rehab start with the Baysox. Gibbons, who came to the place the previously planned four times, His start in left field was his third of the year for the Baysox as he started his second rehab stint with the O's Double-A team. Over his three games in Bowie, Gibbons is hitless going 0-8 during this stretch.

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