Lynchburg Hands Kinston an 8-3 loss...
Published on May 1, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Kinston Indians News Release
Lynchburg hit three home runs on their way to an 8-3 win against Kinston Friday night at City Stadium in Virginia.
The Hillcats started the hitting in the bottom of the first inning when Pedro Alvarez hit a solo home run off of K-Tribe starter Russell Young. Young was called up from Lake County on April 29th and made his Carolina League debut. Young settled down and did not allow another hit until the fourth inning.
In the top of the fourth inning, Kinston took a brief 3-1 lead behind four straight one out hits from Lonnie Chisenhall, Matt McBride, Matt Brown and Ronald Rivas. The hit by Rivas was good for an RBI, as was the single by Alex Castillo one batter later. Rivas was the only K-Triber with multiple hits on the night going 2-for-4 in the game.
In the bottom of the fourth the Hillcats ripped the lead back with a six hit, two walk, five run inning highlighted by a two-run home run from Kent Sakamoto. Sakamoto would add a solo home run in the eighth inning off of Kinston reliever Kyle Landis for Lynchburg's third home run of the night. It was the most home runs given up by the K-Tribe pitching staff in a single game this season, as Kinston's staff came into the game having given up just 13 home runs all season; the lowest mark in the Carolina League. Kinston reliever Kyle Landis, making his first K-Tribe appearance of the season after being called up from Low A Lake County Friday afternoon, gave up just one hit and no runs in three innings of relief work.
The K-Tribe stays on the road for game two against Lynchburg Saturday night in Virginia. Kinston's Eric Berger will take the hill for the 7:05 pm start.
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