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Lake Monsters Fall 4-1 At Lowell On Sunday To Open 6-Game Roadtrip

June 26, 2011 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


LOWELL, MA --- Will Middlebrooks hit a solo homer in the second and added a sacrifice fly in a two-run sixth inning as the Lowell Spinners held Vermont to just four hits in a 4-1 victory over the Lake Monsters in New York-Penn League action Sunday evening at LeLecheur Park.

Middlebrooks, who joined the Spinners on Sunday for a rehab assignment from Double-A Portland, lined a 2-0 pitch from Jose Macias over the leftfield wall to lead off the second inning to give the Spinners a quick 1-0 lead.

Lowell added a run in the fifth without a hit on a walk, stolen base, groundout and a Macias wild pitch before their two-run sixth game the Spinners a 4-0 lead. Jose Garvia led off the inning with a double, knocking Macias from the game, and scored two batters on Middlebrooks sac fly. Boss Moanaroa added an RBI single later in the frame off reliever Chaz Mye.

Spinner starter Luiz Diaz (1-1), who had allowed seven runs on eight hits in just 3 1/3 innings last Monday at Centennial Field in Vermont's 8-6 home-opening win, rebounded on Sunday to shut down the Lake Monsters over five innings. Diaz gave up just two hits (both to Xavier Macklin) on a two-out double in the second and one-out single in the fifth.

Trailing 2-0 in the top of the sixth, the Lake Monsters got the first batters aboard off reliever Luis Bastardo on an Aaron Shipman check-swing single and Sean Jamieson walk. But Bastardo got Chih-Fang Pan to popout on a bunt attempt, Jordan Tripp on a fly ball and struckout Chris Affinito to kill the Vermont rally.

The Lake Monsters finally got on the scoreboard in the ninth as Tripp walked, moved to second on a flyout and third on a wild pitch before scoring on a Chad Oberacker RBI groundout. Since a two-run homer from Tripp in the first inning on Friday and including four innings from Sunday's suspended game, Vermont is just 7-for-71 (.099) with three runs scored over the last 20 innings.

Macias (1-1) allowed three runs on four hits with two walks and seven strikeouts in six-plus innings to take the loss, while Ryan Hughes and Nathan Kilcrease both tossed one scoreless inning of relief. Macklin had three of the four hits in the game for Vermont, which dropped the opener of its six-game roadtrip.

The Lake Monsters and Spinners will play the second of the three-game series at Lowell on Monday. Vermont's roadtrip continues later in the week at Connecticut before the Lake Monsters return home for a quick two-game homestand on Saturday at 6:05 pm and Sunday at 1:05 pm.

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