NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Lake Monsters Return Home With 6-3 Loss To Tri-City Thursday

Published on July 19, 2012 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT --- The Stedler Division-leading Tri-City ValleyCats continued their strong start to the 2012 New York-Penn League season with a 6-3 victory over the Vermont Lake Monsters on Thursday night at historic Centennial Field in the first of four straight games, the first two at Vermont, between the two teams. 

Joe Sclafini gave the ValleyCats a 2-0 lead in the third inning with a two-run triple to the rightcenter field gap. Tri-City added another run in the fourth off Vermont starter Tyler Vail on an RBI single from Preston Tucker for a 3-0 advantage. Vermont got a run in the bottom of the third on a John Wooten RBI single and the Lake Monsters had a chance for more with the bases loaded and just one out, but Tri-City starter Vincent Velasquez got Wilfredo Solano to ground into an inning-ending double play.

The ValleyCats added three more runs in the fifth, including a Jobaun Morales RBI single for a 6-1 lead. The Lake Monsters got a run back in the bottom of the inning on an Austin Booker sacrifice fly and added another run in the seventh on a Chris Bostick RBI infield single to cut the deficit to 6-3. Vermont got the tying run to the plate in the ninth after a pair of one-out walks, but reliever Blake Ford retired the final two batters of the game to record his 10th save of the season.

Vail (0-1) allowed five runs on five hits over 4 1/3 innings to take the loss, while Velasquez (4-1) two runs on three hits over five innings for the win. Sclafani and Tucker both had two hits for Tri-City (23-8), which has the best record in the NY-Penn League and leads the Stedler Division by seven games over Vermont (16-15).

Wooten had two hits for the Lake Monsters and Booker had a single in the seventh inning to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. The loss was the seventh in the last nine games for the Lake Monsters, who also had a four-game winning streak at Centennial Field snapped with the loss.

The quick two-game homestand for Vermont concludes on Friday night at 7:05 pm against Tri-City. The Lake Monsters  will celebrate a "Summer of Love" with a tie-dye baseball giveaway to the first 750 fans sponsored by Ben & Jerrys and Linking Learning To Life. It is also "Friday Night Fireworks" with a post-game fireworks show.

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