Revs Notch One More Victory In Final Postseason Tuneup
Published on September 18, 2011 under Atlantic League (AtL)
York Revolution News Release
The York Revolution received another great pitching performance from Jino Gonzalez and wrapped up the 2011 regular season with a 2-1 victory over the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in front of a crowd of 4,362 on Fan Appreciation Day at Sovereign Bank Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The Revs close out the winningest regular season in club history with a 73-51 record, an all-time best 22 games over .500. York will now turn its attention to the Atlantic League playoffs, which begin on Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. at Sovereign Bank Stadium with Game 1 of the Freedom Division Championship Series against the Lancaster Barnstormers.
One night after tying a club record with 16 strikeouts in a game, Revs pitchers combined to strike out 15 Blue Crabs in another dominant effort.
Gonzalez (2-1) allowed just three hits in seven shutout innings while striking out 10 batters. He tied a Revs season-high by retiring 13 consecutive batters at one point. He also had a stretch where he struck out seven of eight batters from the second through the fourth inning.
Reliever Sean Stidfole struck out all three batters in a perfect eighth, and Matt DeSalvo returned from the disabled list to earn his first save in the ninth, allowing just a two-out RBI single by pinch-hitter Casey Benjamin.
The Revs plated a first inning run on an RBI fielder's choice by Jose Herrera, and added another one in the fifth on a two-out RBI infield single by Chris Walker with James Shanks outracing third baseman Travis Garcia's toss to home plate.
Notes: Revs pitchers struck out 31 Blue Crabs in 19 innings over the final two games of the series, and 42 batters in 28 innings over the course of the three-game series. Prior to the game, Walker was named the Revs' 2011 Community Outreach Player of the Year, while first baseman Chris Nowak and right-handed pitcher Corey Thurman were named team co-Player of the Year. The Revs finish 22-11 in one-run games.
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