SL1 Carolina Mudcats

Lookouts get past Carolina

Published on August 19, 2011 under Southern League (SL1)
Carolina Mudcats News Release


Chattanooga, TN --- Travis Denker singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth to lift the Chattanooga Lookouts past the Carolina 6-5 and practically dash any post-season hopes the Mudcats may have harbored.

Alfredo Silverio doubled inside the first base bag to start the ninth, and following a sacrifice, reliever Travis Webb intentionally walked two hitters to get to Denker. With the infield in and outfield shallow, Denker laced a one-strike pitch to left-center for the game-winner. With the defeat, the Mudcats fell eight behind the Lookouts with just 16 to play in the regular season.

Carolina scored twice in the top of the first against Will Savage, who entered the contest as the league's winningest pitcher with 12.

Pedro Villarreal, making his first start since Sunday's complete game win over Montgomery, allowed two runs to the first three Lookouts in the first inning, but bore after stranding a runner at third with no outs, Villarreal found his groove into the fourth inning. Scott Van Slyke homered to break a 2-2 tie, then a pair of errors cost Villarreal another run.

However, Carolina trimmed the deficit to one, and then in the seventh, Henry Rodriguez singled down the left field line to score a run, and when Van Slyke overran the ball near the line for an error Quintin Berry scored to put Carolina ahead 5-4.

The Lookouts tied the game in the bottom half to tie the game, capitalizing on successive walks by relieve Kyle McCulloch, but in the eighth, the Lookouts had a runner at third with no outs, but McCulloch denied Chattanooga the go-ahead run.

Berry and Rhinehart each had two hits for the Mudcats.

Villarreal worked through six innings, allowing four runs (three earned) in the no-decision.

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