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RailCats Roll over Saints; Take Series in 10-3 Win

June 22, 2013 - American Association (AA)
Gary SouthShore Railcats News Release


GARY, Ind. - The RailCats offense supplied 10 runs and 16 hits of support for Alain Quijano's complete game on the mound as they buried the Saints in a 10-3 victory on Saturday night. Gary (19-15) has won five of their last six, including three in a row to take the four-game series from St. Paul.

Quijano (5-2) threw the first nine-inning complete game for the RailCats this season and the eighth of his professional career. He held the Saints to three runs, two earned, on seven hits with no walks and four strikeouts.

The RailCats took advantage of some first inning wildness by Saints starter Dylan Thomas. Thomas walked Klein and Pulfer to put runners on the corners with one out. Craig Maddox followed with a base hit to right. Later in the inning, Brian Kolb rolled a base hit through the middle to make it 2-0 RailCats after one inning.

Kolb went 3-for-5 with two RBI and now has the longest current hit streak on the team at nine games.

In the second inning, the Railcats offense continued to roll on scoring three runs on three hits in the inning. Danny Pulfer knocked a two-run single over a drawn-in infield and Christian Vitters followed with an RBI single of his own to right field to give the 'Cats a 5-0 lead after two innings.

St. Paul chipped away at the lead in the third inning against Quijano. Mark Radmacher started the inning with a single, Adam Frost reached on an error and Joey Becker singled to load the bases with nobody out. Willie Cabrera lined a two-run single to right, and a third run came home to score on a throwing error by right fielder Mike Massaro on the same play to trim the lead to 5-3.

Gary added on to the lead in the sixth thanks to two-out hitting. With Adam Klein on first, Maddox roped a double to center to score Klein. Vitters followed with a double down the left field line to bring home Maddox. Vitters used heads-up baserunning to reach third on the play when nobody covered the base. That paid off when Kolb bounced a single into center to make it 8-3.

Dylan Thomas started for St. Paul and went four innings in his first professional start. Thomas (0-1) allowed eight hits, five runs, three walks and struck out three for his first loss of the season.

In the eighth, the RailCats added two more runs on Drew Martinez's single to right against reliever Mike Koons.

The RailCats offense pounded out 16 hits including multi-hit games from six different players. Maddox, Kolb and Martinez each recorded three hit games. The three through seven hitters in the order all knocked in two runs apiece to drive in all 10 RailCats runs.

Vitters, playing in his first game since the 2009 season when he was a member of the Oakland A's organization, went 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and two RBI.

The finale of the four-game series is on Sunday afternoon at 2:10 at U. S. Steel Yard. It is Times Family Sunday and there will be post-game Kids Run the Bases and player autographs. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.railcatsbaseball.com.

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