One-run woes continue as K-Tribe falls, 3-2
Published on July 27, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Kinston Indians News Release
Call it bad luck or just bad favor with the baseballs gods, but Kinston suffered another tough one-run loss to Winston-Salem Monday Night at Gene Hooks Field, losing 3-2.
It is the K-Tribe's third straight one-run defeat and its league-leading 26th one run loss of the season. At 10-26 in one-run contests, the only team with more one-run losses in all of minor league or major league baseball is Double-A Arkansas of the Texas League with 27 one-run losses. To put the one-run woes into perspective, Salem had the most one-run losses in the Carolina League last season with 26 all year.
Kinston trailed from the start as Jimmy Gallagher hit a solo home run off Indians starter Paolo Espino in the bottom of the first. The Dash would add two more in the bottom of the second on a John Curtis two-RBI double.
Espino (3-6) settled down after that though, retiring the final 11 batters he would face. He ended up tossing seven strong innings, allowing three runs on five hits and had four strikeouts. He walked none and hit two batters.
The Indians would get on the board in the top of the third as Adam Davis led off the inning with a single and then Richard Martinez replaced him at first with a fielder's choice groundout. Lucas Montero would then reach on a C.J. Lang error at shortstop. After a Tim Fedroff walk to load the bases, Lonnie Chisenhall hit a sacrifice fly to center field to drive in Martinez. It was Chisenhall's (0-for-3) first sacrifice fly on the season and his 70th RBI of the year, second most in the league.
The game would stay 3-1 until the ninth when Kinston would get a leadoff single by Ronald Rivas followed by a walk to Davis. Richard Martinez would then sacrifice them both over to second and third. Montero then came up and hit a shot off the glove of Dash pitcher Tyson Corley, that settled behind the mound for an RBI infield single to make the game 3-2 as Rivas scored. But with the tying run on second, Fedroff hit a frozen rope to second baseman Dale Mollenhauer who caught the ball and tagged second for the game-ending double play. Two innings earlier, Fedroff had a potential game tying hit stopped when Dash outfielder Justin Greene made a diving catch in center.
Levi Maxwell got the win in relief, tossing two and 2/3 innings, allowing no runs on three hits, a walk and struck out two.
Kinston will try again tomorrow night for game two of the series as the Indians send Mike McGuire (0-2, 5.89) to the mound, game time 7pm.
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