PawSox take three out of four from Yankees
Published on July 2, 2010 under International League (IL1)
Pawtucket Red Sox News Release
One solo home run. That was the entirety of the Scranton offense against Michael Bowden tonight, as he otherwise shut down the Yankees over seven-plus innings of one-hit baseball en route to a 5-1 victory.
After struggling in April and May, Bowden has come on strong of late, winning three of his last four starts to improve to 4-3 on the year and drop his ERA under 4.00. His last time out at McCoy, against Louisville on June 15, he gave up three hits and no runs in 7.2 innings.
Tonight, he was even better. He retired the side in order in each of the first four innings, losing his perfect game bid when Juan Miranda homered to right with one out in the fifth. This slowed Bowden not a bit, however, as he promptly retired the next ten in a row before an error by Lars Anderson with two outs in the eighth prompted manager Torey Lovullo to remove him after 102 pitches.
The PawSox offense, which had scored seven, six, and six runs in taking two of the first three in this series, held its own again to back Bowden's effort. They pounded out 12 hits tonight, scoring single runs in the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth.
Ryan Kalish, hitting leadoff tonight, doubled to start things off and then moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Gil Velazquez. Bubba Bell squibbed a ball down the first-base line, and Yankees' pitcher David Phelps tried in vain to shovel the ball home in time to nail the speedy Kalish.
In the second, Tug Hulett doubled, moved to third on a Jorge Jimenez groundout, and then came home on an RBI single from Juan Apodaca to make it 2-0.
Velazquez led off the third with a single and moved to second when third baseman Eduardo Nunez rifled a wild throw past Miranda at first. He went to third when Bell grounded out, and then Lars Anderson singled him in.
Kalish again keyed the scoring in the fifth, doubling to lead off and then coming home on another RBI single from Bell. Hulett plated his second run in the sixth, singling and then coming all the way around when Apodaca doubled into the left-field corner.
Randor Bierd came on to finish the game with two outs in the eighth, giving up a single to Eric Bruntlett but then getting Greg Golson to ground to short to end the inning. Reid Gorecki reached on an error by Jimenez at third with one out, but got thrown out trying to reach third on Nunez's single. Jesus Montero then grounded back to Bierd to end it.
Bell, Kalish, and Hulett all had stellar offensive nights- Bell with two RBI singles, Kalish and Hulett each with two doubles and two runs, and Hulett with three hits total.
Having taken three of four from the Yankees, the PawSox play a single game at home against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs tomorrow night before heading out to play four at Lehigh Valley starting Sunday. Robert Coello (1-1, 2.25) takes on Ty Taubenheim (0-0, 3.00) at 6:05.
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