SAL1 Charleston Dirty Birds

Power walk to victory

Published on August 15, 2006 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Charleston Dirty Birds News Release


The lead changed hands four times in Tuesday night's game between the West Virginia Power and Hickory Crawdads at Appalachian Power Park before the game ended with Mike Bell drawing a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth inning, as the Power went on to win 7-6 to take the first game of the series.

The Hickory Crawdads went up 2-0 in the top of the first inning on an RBI triple from Brad Corley and a run scoring single from Jason Delaney. The Power cut the lead in half on Angel Salome's RBI single. The RBI for Salome was his 85th, he singled three times on the night but left the game in the seventh inning after injuring his left ankle sliding into second base. The extent of his injury has yet to be determined. West Virginia plated three runs in the top of the second inning to take their first lead. Kenny Holmberg and Ryan Barba ripped back to back RBI singles and Holmberg scored later in the inning on Michael Brantley's groundout.

Cameron Blair tied the game at 4-4 in the top of the fourth inning on a two run homer, his fourth of the year. Hickory took their second lead of the game in the fifth inning after Tony Mansolino scored on a wild pitch. In the bottom of the fifth inning Mat Gamel doubled in Lorenzo Cain to tie the game and Gamel scored later in the inning on Tony Festa's groundout to give the Power the lead. Hickory tied the game in the seventh inning when Wanell Macia reached on a fielder's choice to bring in Jason Delaney. In the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded and one out, Mike Bell drew a seven pitch walk to bring in the winning run.

Darren Ford, Angel Salome and Ryan Barba all had three hits for the Power. Five Power players in all had multi hit games. Lorenzo Cain hit safely twice, giving him 143 hits on the year, seven away from tying the franchise record for hits in a season. The last at bat victory for the Power was their ninth this season.

Brandon Parillo (2-0) who was just called up on Tuesday pitched four solid innings out of the bullpen, surrendering a run on three hits with four strikeouts and got the win, while Matt Swanson (4-4) got the loss. The Power are 63-56 on the year and 24-26 in the second half after the win while the Crawdads fell to 60-60 overall and 27-24 in the second half after the loss.

The Power will continue the four game series against the Hickory Crawdads at Appalachian Power Park on Wednesday night. Right hander Jared Hughes (3-3, 5.40) will make the start for Hickory and the Power will counter with right hander Matt Kretzschmar (3-4, 6.08). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM.

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