MWL1 Burlington Bees

Long Leads the Charge to a 5-1 Win in Clinton

Published on June 25, 2011 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Burlington Bees News Release


CLINTON, IA -The Burlington Bees (1-1) received five solid innings from Nate Long (5-1) and pushed across five runs on ten hits to earn a 5-1 win over the Clinton LumberKings (1-1) at Alliant Energy Field on Saturday night.

Burlington opened the scoring in the first inning. 3B Tony Thompson (1-3) singled and moved to second base on a wild pitch. Thompson scored when 1B A.J. Kirby-Jones (1-4) reached base on an error for a 1-0 lead.

Long allowed just one hit, walked one and struck out seven. He retired the first nine hitters he faced before DH Stefen Romero (0-2) led off the fourth inning and was hit by a pitch. After getting CF Julio Morban (1-4) to pop out to left field, Long walked 3B Matt Browning (0-2) and retired the next two hitters to get out of the inning.

Long gave up a leadoff single to C Steven Baron (1-4) in the sixth inning before retiring the next three hitters in a row.

The Bees scored a run in the sixth inning. CF Jose Crisotomo (2-5) singled and moved to third base on a throwing error by Clinton RHP George Mieses (1-9). Thompson lifted a sacrifice fly to left field to score Crisotomo for a 2-0 Burlington lead.

LF Kevin Rivers (1-4) hit an RBI single up the middle against LHP Max Peterson in the sixth inning to score Morban from second base to make the score 2-1.

Burlington scored two runs in the seventh inning to take a 4-1 lead. SS Yordy Cabrera (2-4) singled and scored on a double by 2B Nino Leyja (2-4). He stole third base and scored on a sacrifice fly by LF Royce Consigli (1-4).

Consigli hit an RBI single in the ninth inning to score Leyja and give the Bees a four-run lead at 5-1.

BEES BUZZINGS: The Burlington Bees struck out 14 LumberKings on Saturday. In addition to Long's seven strikeouts, LHP Max Peterson added five strikeouts over three innings and Daniel Tenholder struck out two men in the ninth inning.

Bees' pitchers have struck out 28 LumberKings hitters over the first two games of the series.

The Bees and LumberKings finish their series on Sunday night at 2:00 p.m. RHP Josh Bowman (5-2, 2.98) starts for the Burlington against LHP Anthony Fernandez (2-2, 4.17) for Clinton. Pre-game coverage begins at 1:40 p.m. on Newsradio 1490 KBUR and online at www.gobees.com.

2011 Bees tickets are on sale now! To purchase season tickets, bonus books or single game tickets, please give the Bees a call at (319) 754-5705, go online to www.gobees.com, or stop by the box office at Community Field during normal business hours.

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