Lynchburg Hillcats Game Notes
July 4, 2009 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Lynchburg Hillcats News Release
LYNCHBURG HILLCATS (2-7, 47-31) vs. WINSTON-SALEM DASH (5-4, 43-34)
July 4th, 2009 -- 7:05 PM
Calvin Falwell Field @ Lynchburg City Stadium
LHP Chi-Hung Cheng (6-3, 3.78) vs. RHP Gregory Infante (0-0, 0.00)
THE HILLCATS: Lynchburg dropped their fifth straight last night with a 5-1 loss to Winston-Salem at City Stadium....The five-game skid is the longest losing streak of the season for the Hillcats and they are now five games under .500 for the first time all season after they weren't under .500 the entire first half...Tonight is the second game of three-game series with the Southern Division first half champion Dash and game two of a six-game homestand at Calvin Falwell Field...
VS. WINSTON-SALEM: The Hillcats are 5-4 versus the Dash this season and took three out of four from Winston-Salem in their lone trip to Lynchburg this season...Last season Winston-Salem (then the Warthogs) won the season series 14-6...Lynchburg has the all-time advantage 148-139, and they are 83-63 in the Hill City...
CITY STADIUM SLIDE: After starting their home schedule with a record of 23-7 at Calvin Falwell Field, the Hillcats have gone 1-7 since then...Wednesday night was the first time at home or on the road the Hillcats had been swept...The Cats began the season 8-1 in series in the Hill City and have gone 0-2-1 since with back-to-back series losses...
OPENING ACT JITTERS: After starting the season 18-1 in series openers and winning 17 straight, the Hillcats have gone 2-5 since then in game one contests and have lost three in a row including last night's 5-1 set-back...
HOT HAGUE: 1B Matt Hague went 3-for-4 a night ago with a double...He has a season-high eight-game hitting streak and has gone a combined 16-for-29 (.552) with three doubles, a home run, seven RBI and two runs scored...He has hit in 13 of his last 14 games and has gone 21-for-47 (.447) over that time, raising his average from .278 to .312...Hague has had more than one hit in six of the eight contests during his current hitting-streak...He has four extra-base hits in his last five games after he had two in his previous 20 games...
LITTLE MARGIN FOR ERROR: RHP Matt McSwain allowed three runs in five innings of work last night and lost for the fourth time this season...He has lost in three of his last four starts despite the fact that he has only allowed combined five earned runs in those three starts combined (2.46 ERA in those three outings)...In the three losses combined McSwain has only received two runs of support...Prior to last night he had not allowed more than two earned runs in nine straight starts...
A CAT'S LIFE: C Eric Fryer is adjusting to life as a Hillcat after getting traded for the second time in less than six months...He was traded along with minor leaguer RHP Casey Erickson to the Pirates from the Yankees for UTIL Eric Hinske earlier this week...He made his debut on Thursday night at Winston-Salem and went 1-for-2 with two runs, two walks and got hit by a pitch...Last night he drove in his first run for Lynchburg...Fryer was batting .250 with two homers and 24 RBI in 59 games with Tampa in the Florida State League (Advanced-A affiliate of the Yankees)...He was riding an eight-game hitting streak when he finished his time with Tampa (11-for-30, .367) and had hit in 11 of his last 12 games with the Yankees (15-for-49, .306)...Last season he led the South Atlantic League in batting average (.335) and on-base percentage (.407), and was third in slugging percentage (.506) with West Virginia (then the Low-A affiliate of the Brewers)...He was selected as a post-season All-Star selection with the Power...
KNOCKING ON THE DOOR: OF Jamie Romak went 2-for-5 on Thursday night with two home runs, five RBI and two runs scored...He has 36 home runs in his career as a Hillcat and is now just three homers shy of tying Josh Bonifay for the most homers in Hillcats history...Romak hit 15 in 2007 for Lynchburg, 18 last season (led the league at the time of his promotion) and now has hit three this season... It was the 10th time in his career he has homered twice in the same game and his sixth time as a Cat...
TONIGHT'S OPPOSING PITCHER: RHP Gregory Infante was signed in 2006 by the White Sox out of Venezuela and made his professional debut in 2007 with Rookie level Bristol...That season he went 2-3 with a 4.01 ERA in 10 games (eight starts)...Last season he returned to Bristol and went 4-3 with a 2.66 ERA in 13 games (12 starts) in the Appalachian League before earning a promotion to full-season Low-A Kannapolis where he posted a 1-2 mark with a 6.59 ERA in four games (three starts)...He began this season back in Kannapolis and had a 3-5 record with a 3.26 ERA in 15 starts when he got the call-up to Advanced-A...Tonight he makes his first start with the Dash and it will be his first outing against Lynchburg...
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