Moran Flirts with No-No in K-Tribe Loss
August 9, 2011 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Kinston Indians News Release
The Lynchburg Hillcats (19-25, 49-65) defeated the Kinston Indians (22-21, 60-52) 9-0 on Tuesday night in Lynchburg Virginia. The story of the game was starting pitching. The Hillcats starter Gary Moran had a no- hitter bid broken up with two outs in the seventh inning. The single by Jeremie Tice was the first Kinston hit. Moran allowed just three base runners in the ball game. Jeremie Tice also reached on an error, and was eliminated on a fielder's choice hit by Tyler Cannon. Those were the only base runners of the night against Moran. On the other side K-Tribe starter T.J. House had a rough night. House pitched five full innings allowing nine hits; nine runs scored all of them earned. House walked five and stuck out just one Hillcat. House previously had a record of 3-0 with an ERA of 1.59 against Lynchburg.
Lynchburg scored early and often against Kinston starter. The Hillcats plated three runs in the first inning Todd Cunningham walked leading off the game for Lynchburg. Cunningham promptly stole second base, and then a single by Gosselin scored Cunningham. The double machine Joey Terdoslavich hit his Carolina League leading 46th double of the season, which scored Gosselin all the way from first. Joe Leonard then singled home Terdoslavich making the score Lynchburg three and Kinston zero.
The Hillcats were not done as in the bottom of the second inning with Cunningham on second base Gosselin unloaded a homerun to left-center field. The homer was Gosselin's sixth of the season. After the first two innings the K-Tribe was in a 5-0 hole.
A leadoff walk hurt Kinston in the fourth. After drawing the free pass, L.V. Ware pushed to third on a single and a pop fly. An infield ground out off the bat of Phil Gosselin brought Ware home for the sixth Hillcats run.
The highlight of the night for Kinston came on defense in the fifth. Hillcats base runner Joe Leonard was aggressive, attempting to score from first on a Geraldo Rodriguez double and Tyler Cannon gunned him down on a relay throw from Delvi Cid. Cannon threw a seed to catcher Roberto Perez for the put out. The inning went on, and with two runners on L.V. Ware hit a homerun to deep left field. That put the game out of reach at 9-0 Hillcats.
The winning pitcher was Gary Moran who was making his second start in the Carolina League. Moran improved his record to (1-0) and kept his ERA at 0.00. Moran's final line was eight innings pitched allowing just one base hit (Tice); he fanned eight six looking and did not walk a hitter. On the game the K-Tribe just managed two hits all night as Jordan Casas laced a single to right field off Lynchburg's reliever Matt Crim in the ninth inning. The losing pitcher was T.J. Jones who falls to (3-1) against Lynchburg on the season, and (6-10) overall. The Kinston Indians will try to salvage the final game of the series Wednesday Night at 7:05pm in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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