Manatees' Win Streak Snapped at Three

Published on April 12, 2013 under Florida State League (FSL1)
Brevard County Manatees News Release


VIERA, Fla. - With two teams fresh off of three-game series sweeps, one team's streak had to end. Unfortunately for the home crowd, it was the Brevard County Manatees that took a 9-5 loss at the hands of the Clearwater Threshers at Space Coast Stadium on Friday night.

Offense was aplenty in the first two innings as Brevard County (4-4) led 4-1 going into the third inning on four walks and four base hits. It looked like even more runs were possible, but on a sacrifice fly in the second inning it was ruled that Chadwin Stang left third base early in an attempt to score, resulting in an inning-ending double play that left two other runners on.

Clearwater's (5-3) Chris Serritella bounced a home run off of the top of the left-center field wall to cut the deficit in half in the top of the fourth inning and then another long ball by Carlos Alonso gave Clearwater a 5-4 lead that they would not relinquish.

In the top of the seventh, Threshers reliever Jose Mojica worked his way around for what would eventually be the winning run. Brevard County kept it interesting though as Nick Ramirez hit his first homer of the season and his fourth extra-base hit in as many days to tighten it back up at 6-5 right after the stretch.

Clearwater though would put the game out of reach with two more runs in the eighth and one more in the ninth on a wild pitch.

Even though the Manatees set new season highs for offense at home, with eleven hits matching Opening Night for the overall season high and the five runs more than doubling the previous total in Viera, Clearwater's timely hitting and Alonso's shot did the 'Tees in.

Manatees starting pitcher David Goforth (0-1) pitched well through the first four innings, but the three runs in the fifth spelled the end of his night. He finished with a line of five runs (four earned) on five hits - including two home runs allowed - two walks and five strikeouts.

On the other side, Threshers starting pitcher Ethan Stewart didn't last through the second after issuing four walks and also surrendering four hits for four runs. He only struck out one in 1.1 innings, but did not take the loss as Gabriel Arias came out of the bullpen with 4.2 scoreless frames and had the offense step up behind him.

Brevard County will look to get back on track in game two of its three-game set with Clearwater on Saturday night at 6:35 p.m. Jacob Barnes (0-0, 0.00) will make his first start for the Manatees, while Colin Kleven (0-1, 11.25) toes the rubber for Clearwater.

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