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Ramon's Blast Kick Starts Win

August 11, 2012 - American Association (AA)
Winnipeg Goldeyes News Release


The Winnipeg Goldeyes combined great pitching with some timely hitting late in the game and ended up winning a series from the Wichita Wingnuts.

On Saturday evening at Shaw Park, Chris Salamida and Brian Beuning combined to give the Goldeyes a 3-1 victory over the Wingnuts in the final game of a three-game set.

Salamida allowed only one run on six hits over 6.1 innings while Beuning pitched 2.2 scoreless innings to give Winnipeg another series win over Wichita. The Goldeyes have played the Wingnuts twice this season and won both series two-games-to-one.

The big blow on Saturday night was a solo homer by Amos Ramon in the bottom of the sixth. The Goldeyes trailed 1-0 at the time and couldn't get anything going against Wichita starter Anthony Capra. But after Ramon's homer, the Goldeyes added another run the sixth and one more in the eighth and with Beuning on the mound - he struck out five of the nine batters he faced - the game was in the bag.

With the victory, the Goldeyes remained five games behind the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks in the race for first in the American Association's North Division. Meanwhile, the Fish moved five games ahead of both Kansas City and St. Paul in the Wild Card race.

"That home run was a difference make in the game," said Goldeyes manager Rick Forney. "At that point in the game, we had nothing going offensively. But hitting is contagious and after the home run, we hit the ball pretty well. Amos even got a triple later in the game. After the home run, we started to get our bats going."

Wichita opened the scoring in the top of the sixth when, with two out, Greg Porter doubled and Wilberto Ortiz singled him home.

But that was it for the Wingnuts and the Goldeyes were just getting started.

With one out in the bottom of the sixth, Ramon got a change-up up in the zone and drilled a monster blast over the leftfield wall.

"(Starter Anthony) Capra was effectively wild for them tonight," said Ramon. "In the sixth, all I wanted to do was get a hit and try to get something started, but he threw me a change-up up and I hit it pretty hard. It's the first home run I've ever hit in Shaw Park so I got that off my back."

The Goldeyes added a run in the sixth on an RBI single from Yurendell de caster that scored Price Kendall and then, in the eighth, Ramon tripled and scored on a single by Kendall. Ramon went two-for-three with two runs scored and an RBI and raised his batting average to .299.

Salamida (4-5, 4.27 ERA) got the win for Winnipeg while Beuning picked up his second save of the week and third of the year. Capra (1-2, 4.89 ERA), who allowed only two runs on three hits over six complete innings took the hard-luck loss

The Goldeyes will get a rare Sunday off and then on Monday will open a series in Fargo against the first-place RedHawks.

Game time is 7 p.m. at Newman Outdoor Field and it can be heard live on TSN 1290 with Paul Edmonds calling the play-by-play.

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