EL1 New Hampshire Fisher Cats

Loewen Belts Two HRs in Fisher Cats' 8th Straight Victory

Published on May 4, 2010 under Eastern League (EL1)
New Hampshire Fisher Cats News Release


Manchester, NH - Adam Loewen belted two home runs and Brad Emaus went 3-for-5 with a homer and 3 RBIs as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats matched a club record by winning their eighth straight game, 8-4, over the New Britain Rock Cats on Tuesday night at Merchantsauto.com Stadium.

New Hampshire (18-7) jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning against Mike McCardell when Eric Thames drew a two-out walk and Emaus knocked a two-run homer, his third, into the Poultry Products Dinner in the Den.

The Fisher Cats added two more runs in the second inning when Loewen (2-for-4, 2 HR) cleared the wall in right-center for a solo homer and Darin Mastroianni (4-for-5, 3B, RBI, R) extended his hitting streak to 10 games with an RBI triple, scoring Brian Jeroloman (2-for-3, 2 R), who had walked, for a 4-0 lead.

New Britain (4-20) sliced the lead in half against Luis Perez in the top of the fourth on a run-scoring single by Mark Dolenc (2-for-3, BB, RBI, R) and a sacrifice fly by Ben Revere (0-for-3, BB, SF).

The Fisher Cats answered back in the home half of the fifth when Thames (1-for-2, HR, BB, SF, SB, 2 R) crushed his Eastern League-leading seventh homer, a solo shot off the batter's eye that gave New Hampshire a 5-2 lead.

Joe Benson (2-for-4, HR, 2 RBI) drilled a two-run homer, his third, off Perez in the sixth, drawing the Rock Cats to within 5-4 and becoming the first player to clear the batter's eye at Merchantsauto.com Stadium with a long ball since Mike Costanzo of the Reading Phillies on May 24, 2007.

Perez (3-1) allowed four runs on nine hits in 5.1 innings to notch the victory. The left-hander fanned six and walked two.

McCardell (0-3) remained winless after surrendering five runs on nine hits in six innings. The righty walked two and struck out two.

Emaus added a run-scoring double off Santos Arias in the seventh, and Loewen mashed his second homer of the night, and fourth of the year, in the eighth.

Four Fisher Cats' relievers -Trystan Magnuson, Tim Collins, Vince Bongiovanni and Danny Farquhar- combined to pitched 3.2 innings of one-hit baseball, with Farquhar striking out Chris Parmelee with the bases loaded to register his league-leading eighth save.

The Fisher Cats search for the first nine-game winning streak in franchise history on Wednesday night at 6:35pm when right-hander Kyle Drabek (4-1, 3.49) attempts to become the league's first five-game winner. He'll be opposed by New Britain right-hander David Bromberg (1-0, 1.13). Fisher Cats Pre-Game begins at 6:15pm on the WGIR Fisher Cats Radio Network with Mike Murphy.

Wednesday night is Community College System of New Hampshire Student Reading Challenge Night and Indian Head Athletics Scholar-Athlete Night. For tickets, visit www.nhfishercats.com or call (603) 641-2005.

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