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Palm Beach Cardinals Game Notes

Published on April 27, 2006 under Florida State League (FSL1)
Palm Beach Cardinals News Release


A day after writing that Palm Beach had only one extra base hit in their last two games against Vero Beach, the Cardinals struck Daytona with an offensive onslaught Wednesday night as the thunder and lightning cleared at Roger Dean Stadium. Ryan Barthelemy led the charge with his second homerun of the season, a towering shot to right center, scoring Juan Lucena. The middle of the line-up consisting of Barthelemy, Terry Evans and Mike Ferris (.343 6th FSL) went 9-for-13 on the night, scoring six runs and driving in five.

Mitchell Boggs (1-2) cruised to his first victory of the season , helped by the 5-0 cushion his offense provided in the first two innings. Boggs line consisted of six innings, allowing three hits and one run while walking three and striking out five. Jose Garcia, Zach Zuercher and Justin Garza closed the door on the game, each working an inning in relief.

Daytona starter Grant Johnson (2-2) was roughed up for seven runs (6 ER) in his three innings of work. The Cardinals have blistered Johnson for 16 hits in his 8 1/3 innings against him this year.

The victory draws the Cardinals (1 GB) closer to first place Brevard County, who dropped their fourth game in a row, losing to Vero Beach, 9-5. Vero Beach has won three games in a row after taking the last two games against Palm Beach here at the stadium.

START ME UP

Eric Haberer (1-1) looks to build off of his best start of the 2006 campaign, shutting out the St. Lucie Mets on four hits for eight innings, before giving way to Dennis Dove (S2) in the ninth. Haberer's troubles this year have come early in his previous three starts, allowing six of his nine earned runs in the first two innings. Last year he started one game against the Cubs and suffered a loss, pitching four innings, allowing two runs on six hits. Eric was a 3rd round selection (90th overall) in the 2004 draft out of Southern Illinois University.

Matt Weber (0-2) hopes to improve upon his first appearance against the Cardinals (4/14), allowing five runs on seven hits, in just 3 2/3 innings of work. Weber made his first start of the year last week (4/21), gaining a no-decision against Vero Beach, hurling five innings while surrendering five runs. Weber started his last two games of 2005 with Daytona, after spending most of the season at Peoria. During his three seasons in the Cubs organization, Weber has compiled a 12-14 record and 3.27 ERA. He was selected in the 16th round (2003) out of Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford, IL.

RECOVERING FROM SPRING BREAK

After losing six games to start the season, the Daytona Cubs have won 8 of 13 and pushed their overall record to 8-11 (5 GB). The Cubs came into the series on a three game win streak after sweeping the Jupiter Hammerheads (5-15) at home. Earlier in the season, Daytona hosted Palm Beach and dropped two out of three games.

The Cubs are led offensively by catcher Jake Fox and outfielder Ryan Harvey. Fox comes into tonight's contest with a .358 AVG (4th FSL) 4 homeruns and 13 RBIs. Fox torched the Cardinals in there first series going 3-fo-7 with a homerun and 3 RBIs. Harvey is currently 2nd in the Florida State League with 5 homeruns behind Tampa's Cody Ehlers (6). Harvey knocked three of those homeruns against the Palm Beach Cardinals and drove in five runs. With the homeruns came strikeouts as the Cardinals whiffed him six times.

Daytona is hitting .261 (4th FSL) as a team this year and took over the stolen base lead last night with 30.

AROUND THE CARDINALS ORGANIZATION

The St. Louis Cardinals (14-7) completed a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates, winning 4-3 in the ninth inning. Mark Mulder was left without a decision on Wednesday, holding Pittsburgh to two runs over 7 2/3 innings. Mulder struck out one Pirate while issuing a season-high five free passes. Albert Pujols knocked in the David Eckstein for the game winner with a single. The RBI gives Pujols a total of 29 on the year. It was the first sweep at New Busch Stadium and a ninth win in 11 games. The Cardinals played yesterday's contest without Jim Edmonds or Scott Rolen. St. Louis still trails division leader Houston by one game....Triple-A Memphis (5-14) start a five game series tonight against the Iowa Cubs. The series will consist of a doubleheader on Saturday night. It was the first scheduled night off for the Redbirds since starting the season on April 6th. Yesterday's game was postponed due to rain against Omaha...Double-A Springfield (13-7) dropped the first game of a seven- game road trip, ending their three-game winning streak, falling to the Corpus Christi Hooks, 4-1, at Whataburger Field. The Cardinals came into the contest as the top-hitting club in the Texas League but managed only one run. They remain 1 ½ games up on Tulsa in the North Division ...Lower-A Swing of Quad Cities (9-11) continue to struggle defensively committing nine errors in the first two games against the Beloit Snappers, dropping last night's contest, 7-3. The Swing hascommitted 45 errors in just 20 games. Jason Cairns (1-1) picked up the loss, allowing five runs (2 ER) on four hits

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