AtL York Revolution

Revolution Cling to Win

Published on June 1, 2011 under Atlantic League (AtL)
York Revolution News Release


The York Revolution scored in bunches early, and hung on for a 5-4 win over the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Wednesday night at Regency Furniture Stadium. York (14-11) remains within three games of Lancaster for first place, and will conclude their road trip on Thursday night in Waldorf, MD, before opening a seven-game homestand on Friday.

Scott Grimes and Val Majewski slugged back-to-back homeruns to left field on consecutive pitches in the top of the first inning to get the offense going.

The Revs added three more in the third, taking a 5-0 lead. Chris Walker slapped a leadoff double to right-center and Grimes reached on a fly ball that dropped between leftfielder Casey Benjamin and centerfielder Jeremy Owens for a single to set the table. Majewski followed with an RBI single to right field, and Vince Harrison drove in another run on a sac fly to left. Harrison was robbed of a hit on a diving play by Benjamin on the liner, but picked up the RBI to make it 4-0. James Shanks followed with an RBI double to the leftfield fence, capping the rally.

York starter Chris Cody (3-1) took a shutout into the sixth, and allowed just one run in 5.2 innings to earn the win. He has now allowed just two earned runs combined in his last three starts.

Benjamin led off the bottom of the sixth with a double off the right field wall and scored on a groundout by Jose Herrera, the final batter faced by Cody, to get the Blue Crabs on the board. Ryan Mulhern and Travis Garcia pulled the Blue Crabs back in the game with back-to-back homers off reliever Sean Stidfole, as Southern Maryland was suddenly within 5-3 at the end of six.

Mike DeMark and Ronnie Morales both worked 1-2-3 innings to preserve the lead through eight.

Scott Rice struck out Mulhern to begin the ninth, but after a single by Garcia, Ben Harrison hit into what appeared to be a potential game-ending double play. The grounder took a bad hop for a single into left field, however, landing runners at the corners. Christian Lopez followed with another grounder to short, but the Revs were only able to record one out, with Garcia scoring, cutting York's lead to one on the first run allowed by Rice in 13 appearances all season. Rice induced one more ground ball to short, however, ending the game on a fielder's choice hit into by Jeremy Owens, as the Revs held on for the victory.

Notes: The save was Rice's first of the season, and 20th of his pro career. Mulhern's homer briefly tied him for the league-lead with Garcia, who promptly took the lead back with his 10th of the season on the back-to-back shots in the sixth. The homers were the first two allowed by Stidfole all season. Cody walked only one and has issued just one free pass in each of his six starts. The back-to-back homeruns by Grimes and Majewski in the first inning were the 10th back-to-back homers in Revs history, and first since June 19, 2010 when Grimes and Erold Andrus went back-to-back in a 20-2 win at Lancaster. The Revs are now 4-3 on their current road trip with one game remaining. Catcher Salvador Paniagua had a personal 23-inning scoreless streak before the Blue Crabs scored in the sixth. The Revs had worked 10 consecutive scoreless innings as a pitching staff before Southern Maryland's sixth inning run. York has played seven consecutive errorless games, within one of matching their club record. Their 64-inning scoreless streak is the second longest in team history (record is 76 innings, June 8-17, 2010). It was York's first win vs. Southern Maryland in five tries this season. Vince Harrison's career-best 15-game hitting streak was snapped (0-for-3). York's Shaun Garceau (0-1) will face Southern Maryland's Brian Slocum (first start) in Thursday's rubber match at 7:05 p.m. Revs fans can catch the action live on SportsRadio 1350, Shoutcast.com (WPDC), and YorkRevsTV.com beginning at 6:30 p.m. with Darrell Henry on the call.

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