Revs Right Ship, Overwhelm Bluefish Late
August 13, 2016 - Atlantic League (AtL)
York Revolution News Release
York, Pa. - After scoring just three runs in their previous three games, the York Revolution rediscovered their offensive attack in the late innings on Saturday night, beating the Bridgeport Bluefish 8-3. The Revs (21-14, 61-44) draw even with the Bluefish (18-17, 48-57) in the series and can go for the win in the rubber game on Sunday afternoon.
Ty'Relle Harris (3-4) earned his first win since June 25 with a quality start, allowing one run on seven hits in six innings. He walked two and struck out three on 89 pitches. Atlantic League wins leader Jonathan Albaladejo (11-5) was stuck with the loss after surrendering five runs on nine hits in six innings.
Harris and Albaladejo engaged in a pitchers' duel through four innings, with each man giving up baserunners and getting out of every jam. Harris surrendered a leadoff single to former Rev Alex Marquez in the fifth but induced a 4-6-3 double play from Luis Hernandez. Endy Chavez followed with a lineout to center and Harris faced the minimum for the first time on the night.
The fifth wasn't nearly as kind to Albaladejo, who gave up a leadoff single to Bryan Pounds and a wall-ball double to Josh Wilson, putting Revs on second and third with nobody out. Back-to-back strikeouts threatened to spoil the fun, but Joel Guzman came up next and dropped a dying quail bloop into center field, plating Pounds and Wilson.
The runs were the Revs' first in 19 innings of action, having last scored in the third inning of Thursday night's game against New Britain.
Kevin Rivers followed Guzman's bloop with a blast, lining a two-run homer to right center to make it 4-0 for the home side.
"[Albaladejo] still had good stuff in that inning, nitpicking and getting those strikeouts," said Pounds of the four-spot. "We just got a bloop to fall, getting a couple RBIs there, then Rivers hit that bomb to get things going."
Bridgeport threatened to erase Revs' gains in the top of the sixth as Jose Cuevas belted a leadoff double and Sean Burroughs followed with a walk. Harris got the groundball that he needed, retiring Welington Dotel on another 4-6-3 double play. After a walk, Angelys Nina notched an RBI single to break up the shutout, but Harris buckled down and got Luis Nunez to ground out to third, getting himself through six.
Pounds made up that run in the bottom of the sixth with a solo home run, and then Jared Mitchell doubled home a run in the seventh to make it 6-1.
Manny Corpas was perfect in the seventh inning, but the Bluefish got to Julio DePaula in the eighth. Josh Vitters doubled off the big wall with one out, and on the next pitch Anthony Giansanti singled off the Arch Nemesis to bring in Vitters. After a groundout advanced the runner, Nina singled to plate a run and make it 6-3 before DePaula got out of the inning on a groundout.
A pop-up thunderstorm delayed the game for 37 minutes in the bottom of the eighth. After the delay, Wilson lined an RBI double off the Nemesis, his second wall-ball double of the night, to make it 7-3. Travis Witherspoon singled home Wilson to give the game its final margin.
Scott Rice gave up a couple singles but induced an around-the-horn double play to end a scoreless ninth.
Pounds and Wilson, the 8-9 hitters in the Revs order, each had three hits and an RBI. Wilson's two doubles off the Nemesis give him 10 wall-ball hits on the season, the most on the team. Witherspoon also went 3-for-5 with a run, a stolen base, and an RBI.
Chavez, Cuevas, and Nina each had two hits for the Bluefish with Nina driving home two of the team's three runs.
Notes: The Revs released catcher Alex Marquez in the afternoon before the game; he was signed by Bridgeport moments later and started behind the dish for the Bluefish in Saturday's game. Witherspoon's 23 stolen bases with York this season (30 overall) put him one back of Chris Walker's 24 in 2011 for seventh on the Revs' single-season stolen bases leaderboard. Tony Pena (6-7, 5.36) will take the mound for the Revs against the Bluefish's Ross Seaton (0-1, 5.58) in the finale on Sunday afternoon. Revs fans can catch the action live on SportsRadio 1350, woyk1350.com, and on the WOYK mobile app beginning at 12:40 p.m. with Darrell Henry and Will DeBoer on the call. Sunday features a hat giveaway presented by Stambaugh Heating and Cooling to the first 850 fans, as well as a school supply drive by the York Rescue Mission and a York City Little League chopper drop. Usual Sunday highlights of pregame autographs and catch on the field, dollar hot dogs presented by Hatfield Quality Meats, and postgame kids run the bases presented by Commonwealth Charter Academy are also in order. Gates open at 12:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at yorkrevolution.com, on the phone at (717) 801-HITS, or in person at the Apple Chevrolet Ticket Office.
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