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Mudcats Shut Out

Published on May 1, 2003 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Carolina Mudcats News Release


Zebulon, NC ---- Tom Farmer worked seven scoreless innings to lead the Jacksonville Suns to a 2-0 series-opening win over the Carolina Mudcats at the Grounds of Jacksonville Thursday night.

Farmer (W, 1-1), who tossed six shutout against Carolina on April 20, littered five singles against the league's top-ranked offense to register his first win of the season.

The loss snapped Carolina's three-game losing streak, skimmed the Mudcats Eastern Division lead to 1 1/2, and opened a 12-game, 15-day road trip.

Miguel Cabrera (3-4, 2B) and Wilson Valdez (3-4, 2B) each had three of the seven Carolina hits as the Mudcats (19-8) were blanked for the first time this season.

Todd Moser (L, 0-1, 6IP, 10H, 2ER, 2W, 7K) suffered the loss in his Double-A debut. Moser gave up 10 hits - eight singles - over six innings. The Suns (15-12) scored a run in the second inning on a looping single by Reggie Abercrombie to score Jason Repko from third. Repko reached with two outs on a misread popfly to left that fell before Chris Aguila (0-4, K, GDP). Farmer followed with a sliced ground-rule double to right.

A groundball by Victor Diaz scored Nick Alvarez in the third.

Sean Fesh (ND, 2IP, 2H, 0R, 1W, 3K) continued his mastery in the Southern League, but need to make a few clutch pitches to extend his scoreless streak to 22 innings. After working a shutout seventh, Fesh walk Diaz, then allowed a single to Brennan King, sending Diaz first to third. Fesh fanned Repko before pinch-hitter Jesus Feliciano bounced into a double play to end the inning..

Carolina, which leads the season series 3-2, sends Randy Messenger (1-1, 5.87) to the mound Friday night at 7:35 PM ET against Jacksonville's Heath Totten (1-2, 3.65).

Notes: Carolina's 1 1/2 game lead in the East is the smallest it's been since April 13, when the Mudcats were 8-2... OF Will Smith, placed on the disabled list before Tuesday's game, has a broken hamate bone in his right wrist, and will be lost to the club until at least July 1st... RHP Omar Ortiz was released after Tuesday's game against West Tenn... The game at the Grounds of Jacksonville had 3,922 in attendance and marked Carolina's first visit to Jacksonville since last September's Eastern Divisional Finals at Wolfson Park. Wolfson Park was demolished during the off-season.... LF Chris Aguila's 12-game hitting streak was snapped Thursday night, going 0-4... 3B Miguel Cabrera had three more hits, now leading the league with 44, and raising his league-best average to .415. Cabrera also leads the league in RBI (32), doubles (13), slugging percentage, extra-base hits (19) and runs (22).... Mudcats manager Tracy Woodson and a number of Mudcats engaged in a shouting match in the bottom of the seventh inning with a group of Jacksonville fans sitting adjacent to the Carolina dugout. The incident began with early-game taunting and escalated to the point where most of the Mudcats in the dugout during the incident converged at the near-end of the dugout. The game was delayed nearly five minutes as stadium security relocated the disturbing fans. However, the fans, who were drinking, were not ejected.

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