Lynchburg Hillcats Game Notes
Published on April 30, 2007 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Hill City Howlers News Release
THE HILLCATS...open a seven-game homestand with the first of four games against the reigning Mills'Cup Champion Kinston Indians...Locked up a winning road trip with a 12-5 drubbing of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans on Sunday afternoon at Coastal Federal Field...Have alternated wins and losses over their last 8 games...Enter tonight's contest with a .270 team batting average (1st in the CL) and a 4.58 collective ERA (8th in the CL)...By virtue of a Potomac loss last night, moved to withing just 1.5-games of the top spot in the Northern Division...
THE INDIANS...Captured 2 of 3 games at Salem Memorial against the Avalanche this past weekend..Are the only team in the Carolina League that boasts a winning mark on the road (5-2)...Enter tonight's contest with a .248 team batting average (5th in the CL) and a 2.83 collective ERA (2nd in the CL)...Captured their sixth Mills' Cup Championship with a three-game series sweep of the Frederick Keys last September...
2007 vs. KINSTON: The season series is tied at 2-2..Kinston captured the 2006 season series, 12 games to 8...However, the Hillcats lead the lifetime series 125-115 (.521) and have held a significant edge at home, going 68-49 (.581) in 117 all-time games at Lynchburg City Stadium...
TRANSACTIONS: The Pirates' announced today that 1B Steve Pearce (see below) has been promoted to Double-A Altoona...His vacant spot on the roster will be filled by OF Jamie Romak (see page ) who was acquired alongside Adam LaRoche this past off-season in a trade with the Atlanta Braves...In addition, RHP Ronald Belisario has been added to the active roster from Extended Spring Training and LHP Brian Holliday has been placed on the Disabled List...
PEARCE BY THE NUMBERS: 1B Steve Pearce was named Carolina League Player of the Week for the week ending April 29th...The slugger hit 15-31, .484-8-16 over the remarkable stretch...The 24-year old set a pair of team records this past week, registering seven consecutive multi-hit games and homering in five straight games...He currently leads all of Minor League Baseball with 11 home runs and trails just Yankees' 3B Alex Rodriguez (14) for most long balls in professional baseball...Lastly, Pearce concluding his Hillcats career by hitting safely in 2007 team-best 11 consecutive games (20-45, .444-10-21)...
STREAK CONTINUES: OF Pedro Powell went 1-for-6 yesterday and has reached base safely in 17 straight contests...He is batting .303 (20-66) during the streak...
STREAK ENDS: OF Jason Delaney had reached base safely in 16 consecutive games prior to going hitless in four at-bats on Saturday night...The Boston College product batted .367 (18-49) over that stretch...
ERROR FREE: The Hillcats have committed a league-low 12 errors this season...In addition, their .983 fielding percentage is the best in the Carolina League... DAY DREAM: The Hillcats have played their best baseball during day games, posting a 5-1 mark...They are just 4-9 in games beginning after 5 pm...
COMEBACK: The Hillcats earned their first come-from-behind win when trailing in the 7th inning or later yesterday...The Cats trailed 4-3 entering the 7th but scored nine times from that point forward in the 12-5 win...
TONIGHT'S OPPONENT: Ryan Edell, 23, is a 6-1, 195-pound left-hander selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 8th round of the 2005 draft. The College of Charleston product went 0-1 with a 3.44 ERA (18.1 ip, 19 h, 8 r, 7 er, 5 bb, 12 k) in 6 starts for Low-A Lake County in 2006. In his first professional campaign, the Boston, Massachusetts native went 3-4 with a 2.95 ERA in Mahoning Valley. Edell went 8-2 with a 3.67 ERA in his final collegiate campaign with the Cougars.
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