Potomac Wins Pitchers' Duel 2-1
Published on July 18, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Kinston Indians News Release
Kinston's Russell Young delivered another quality start for the Indians, but Potomac's Terrence Engles was just a little bit better to give Potomac its second straight win over Kinston 2-1.
Young (2-5) worked 6 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on four hits, a walk and four strikeouts. Engles (4-3) tossed 6 1/3, allowing just one run on three hits, two walks and struck out six.
Young retired the first 13 batters he faced, but Chris Marrero broke up the perfect game bid in the fifth inning with a single. He would be moved to third on a Francisco Plasencia single, and then scored the first run of the game on an RBI sacrifice fly by Michael Martinez.
The game would stay 1-0 until the sixth when Young would make really his only mistake of the night. Potomac's Devin Ivany took him deep for a solo home run to left-center field to give the P-Nats the 2-0 lead.
Meanwhile, Engles would be dealing. He would set down 17 straight batters from the end of the first inning to the first batter in the seventh inning. But Kinston would finally strike in the seventh, when Ole Sheldon knocked a single into right and Roman Pena followed with a walk. Ronald Rivas would single to load the bases and force Engles out of the game. In came Atahualpa Severino from the bullpen, and the first batter he faced was Adam Davis. Davis lined a shot past a diving Stephen King at third for an RBI single to get Kinston on the board. Severino would shut the door tough after that, striking out Richard Martinez and Ryan Blair to end the threat.
Severino would earn his 13th save of the season, going three up, three down in the eighth and ninth innings while striking out five total.
The K-Tribe will try to salvage the final game of the series tomorrow as they send all-star Eric Berger (7-6, 2.35) to the hill for a 1:05 pm start.
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