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Lynchburg Hillcats Game Notes

Published on May 5, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Lynchburg Hillcats News Release


THE HILLCATS:

Lynchburg won last night 4-0 over Myrtle Beach in the opening game of a four-game series at City Stadium...The Hillcats are up a game on Potomac for first place in the Northern Division and have the best record in the Carolina League...Tonight is the second game of a four-game series with Myrtle Beach and game five of a seven-game homestand...

VS. MYRTLE BEACH:

The Hillcats opened up their season series against the Pelicans by winning two out of three in their recent set at BB&T Coastal Field...Last year the Pelicans took the season series 13-7 and were 6-4 against the Cats at City Stadium...Lynchburg was 6-6 against the Birds until they lost seven in a row to drop the series...Myrtle Beach has the all-time advantage in the series 110-93 and they are 50-49 in Lynchburg...

SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD:

The Cats entered today in first place in the Northern Division with a game lead over Potomac...Lynchburg has only been out of first place for one day thus far this year...They also currently have the best record in the league...

SEEING DOUBLE:

Lynchburg is at the tail end of 14 games against the same two teams...After seven games on the road at Kinston and Myrtle Beach the Hillcats returned home to play the same two teams at City Stadium...Thus far the Cats are 6-5 against these two Southern Division foes with three games remaining...

BLANKING THE BIRDS:

The 4-0 shutout of the Pelicans last night was the first time this season the Hillcats have kept an opponent scoreless...Lynchburg had been shutout once this season...Last year, the Hillcats shutout their opponent four times and were held without a run 11 times...

TONE SETTER:

With their victory last night Lynchburg improved to 7-1 in series openers this season...Not surprisingly, the Hillcats have won four of their seven series this season and have only lost two...

SLEW OF SOUTHPAWS:

The Pelicans opened up the four-game series with the Hillcats last night by putting LHP Richard Sullivan on the mound...Myrtle Beach will pitch a lefty in all four games of this series...Lynchburg has now seen a left-handed starter in nine of their last 12 games...After they face a southpaw in the first game of their series at Salem on Friday, the Cats will have faced a lefty starter in 13 out of 16 games...Lynchburg also has their share of lefty starters, as three of their starting five are southpaws and all three of them are slated to thrown in this four-game series...

CHENG A LUCKY CHARM:

Every time LHP Chi-Hung Cheng has appeared in a game this season the Hillcats have won...The lefty has pitched six times and has made five starts...Last night was his second straight start against Myrtle Beach and he both of those outings...In those two stints Cheng has pitched 11 innings and allowed just two runs...

SOCKING SAK:

1B Kent Sakamoto went 2-for-3 last night with an RBI double and a two-run home run...His two-bagger gave Lynchburg a 1-0 lead and his two-run dinger finished the scoring in the Hillcats 4-0 win...In this homestand he has gone 4-for-10 with a double, three home runs and six RBI...Entering this seven-game stretch at home Sakamoto had not collected an extra-base hit all season...

TONIGHT'S OPPOSING PITCHER:

LHP Edgar Osuna was signed as a free agent in 2004 out of Mexico...He began his career in the Braves organization in 2006 with the GCL Braves and went 0-1 with a 0.92 ERA in six games (two starts)...In 2007 he pitched for Short Season Low-A Danville and went 5-3 with a 2.47 ERA in 13 games (six starts)...Last year he advanced to Low-A Rome where he posted a 10-5 record with a 3.38 ERA with five saves in 30 games (14 starts)...This season the lefty is 2-2 with a 4.01 ERA in five starts for Myrtle Beach...His last outing was his first start against Lynchburg and he tossed six innings, allowed just one run, struck out eight and earned his second victory of the season...

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