Revs Romp Blue Crabs In Second Half Opener
Published on July 15, 2011 under Atlantic League (AtL)
York Revolution News Release
The York Revolution came roaring out of the All Star break with a 12-2 romp of the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in front of 3,618 fans at Regency Furniture Stadium in Waldorf, MD on Friday night, off to a 1-0 start in the season's second half. The Revs now have two chances to clinch their first ever series win in Waldorf the next two days before returning home on Monday to host the Road Warriors.
York scored four times in the second and never looked back. Vince Harrison led off the inning with a bloop single extending his hitting streak to 21 consecutive games, the league's longest this season and tied for the fourth longest in club history. Chris Nowak and Liubiemithz Rodriguez each drew walks to load the bases, and Octavio Martinez drove in the first run on an infield single. Val Majewski then rapped an RBI single to right with one out, Ramon Castro was hit by a pitch with the bases still loaded to force in another run, and Jose Herrera made it 4-0 with a sacrifice fly to left scoring Martinez on a great slide at the plate.
Nowak increased the lead to 5-0 in the third with a solo homer to left-center, his sixth on the season.
The Blue Crabs got on the board in the bottom of the third when J.R. Hopf led off with a triple to right-center and scored on a Jeremy Owens sacrifice fly, but Revs starter Shaun Garceau held the Crabs to one striking out Ben Harrison with the bases loaded to squash their best threat.
The Revs answered right back in the very next inning when Scott Grimes lined a homer to left-center taking over the team lead with 12 jacks on the season and making it a 6-1 score.
Brandon Pinckney launched a solo homer to left in the bottom of the fifth, but Garceau allowed only those two runs in his 4.1 innings while striking out five. Lifted after 94 pitches in his first start since June 28, Garceau let the bullpen do the rest.
Geoff Geary (1-1) retired all five batters faced to earn his first win, while Ronnie Morales, Sean Stidfole, and Michael Nix all followed with scoreless innings. The bullpen combined for 4.2 innings of one-hit ball.
The Revs poured it on late, scoring six unearned runs in the final two innings with the help of four Blue Crab errors. Two runs scored with two outs in the eighth when reliever Eduardo Morlan overthrew first base on what would have been an inning-ending groundout. Then with two outs in the ninth, Grimes drew a bases loaded walk to push home a run, Majewski reached on an error allowing another run to score, and Castro hammered a two-run ground rule double to deep right-center as the lead grew to double digits, capping York's second four-run bat-around inning of the game.
Crabs starter Eddie Rodriguez (3-2) suffered the loss, allowing six runs on nine hits in four innings. He had allowed only six earned runs combined over his previous 14 appearances and 39.2 innings since May 22.
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