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Meyers stellar as Nats bounce back

June 29, 2009 - Carolina League (CarL1)
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC- A day after a bullpen collapse in game one of their four-game set with the Winston-Salem Dash left the P-Nats with a bitter taste in their mouths, Brad Meyers took to the hill to make sure the Dash batters would be waving the white flag by the time it came to make the call to the bullpen. Behind another stellar start from the Carolina League's leading pitcher, the P-Nats would avenge Sunday's night's debacle, cruising to a 6-2 victory in Winston-Salem.

Meyers, the Carolina League's leader in ERA, pitched like he had something to prove in Monday night's affair. Though the righty worked through traffic early on in the ballgame, he would settle down smoothly as the game wore on. Meyers (5-2) would retire the final 14 batters he would face, pushing his scoreless streak to 15 consecutive innings. Overall, the California native would toss seven shutout frames, allowing just five hits while striking out five and not walking a batter.

Generally a victim of poor run support, Meyers would be staked to an early advantage thanks to the P-Nats' hottest hitter, first baseman Chris Marrero. Fresh off a two home run, five RBI performance in game one of the series, Marrero would nearly duplicate the feat. After a Michael Burgess RBI double off the centerfield wall pushed Potomac's first run across, Marrero followed by belting a two-run moonshot off the light tower in left field to give the P-Nats a 3-0 lead. For Marrero, it was his tenth home run of the season as the hitting phenom would finish just a triple shy of the cycle.

The Nats would not stop in the third as back-to-back hits from Stephen King and Brian Peacock put runners on second and third with just one out when Dan Nelson hit a laser to right field. The ball was hit directly at Salvador Sanchez, but the lanky outfielder had the ball carom off his glove as both King and Peacock came around to score, pushing the P-Nat advantage to 5-0.

All the damage was done off Dash starter Levi Maxwell (2-9) who, after starting the year 0-8, tossed a no-hitter against the Wilmington Blue Rocks in his last appearance.

Burgess would add an opposite field blast in the sixth, his 13th home run of the season to give the P-Nats a 6-0 lead which would be more than enough for Meyers on this night.

Five P-Nats would record multi-hit games and the team is firing on all cylinders offensively. With 13 more hits Monday, Potomac has now knocked 58 base hits in the team's first five games since the All-Star break.

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