Can-Am Brockton Rox

Red-hot Rox beat Quebec 5-4

July 4, 2006 - Canadian American League (Can-Am)
Brockton Rox News Release


QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC- Jason Radwan hit a solo HR to center field to break a 4-4 tie in the ninth inning and RHP Jon Koch stranded the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to preserve a 5-4 Rox win over the Quebec Capitales. The teams braved a 79-minute rain delay before the start of the sixth inning. RHP Kyle George pitched a scoreless eighth inning for his second win of the season. The Rox have won their last three games, eight of their last nine, and have beaten the Capitales in all five contests in 2006. The Rox improve to 19-18, above .500 for the first time since June 3rd.

Before play was suspended, the Rox struck for two runs in the first inning. RF Joe Hough led off with a sharp single to center. After an error by Quebec 2B T.J. Shimizu, the Rox had runners at the corners and nobody out. DH Guye Senjem ripped a single through the right side, plating Hough and on an errant throw, SS Mike Scanzano moved to third and Senjem to second. 1B Francisco Lebron drove home his fifth run in five games against his former team with a groundout to give the Rox a 2-0 advantage. Quebec scored twice against RHP Brad Guy in the third inning. Shimizu tripled to lead off the frame and 3B Alex Garcia drove home a run with a single to left. Later in the frame, former Rox LF Nestor Smith doubled to left, plating the second run of the game for the Capitales. RHP Gabe Ribas allowed two runs in the first inning but shut down the Rox through the next four, retiring 10 batters in a row at one point.

The Rox scored two in the sixth inning on RBI doubles by Lebron and Strong. Quebec scored twice against Guy in the seventh, who came back out to work after the delay. Radwan's shot to center in the ninth against LHP Marc-Andre Major cleared the center-field wall and the batter's eye in straight away center, breaking the 4-4 tie. In the bottom of the inning, LF Keith Brachold gunned down Alex Garcia at the plate attempting to score the tying run with a perfect throw from the outfield, and despite loading the bases on a single, a walk, and a hit-batsman, Koch induced a long flyout to end the game. The Rox send RHP John Kelly (3-2, 3.45 ERA) to the hill tomorrow evening at 7:05 in the second game of the series.

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