CarL1 Wilmington Blue Rocks

Rocks Rout Salem, 13-5

Published on June 26, 2010 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Wilmington Blue Rocks News Release


Wilmington, DE - Patrick Norris fell just a triple shy of the cycle as the Wilmington Blue Rocks offense unloaded on the Salem Red Sox for a 13-5 victory at Frawley Stadium on Saturday night. The win allowed the Rocks to take two-of-three from the Sox in the opening series of the season's second half.

Norris was the catalyst of an attack which equaled a season-high in runs and pounded 17 hits as a team. The center fielder went 4-for-4 with five RBIs a triple, a double and scored a run. His two-run single in the second gave Wilmington its second lead of the night and then his triple in the third plated a pair and blew the game wide open, putting the Rocks on top, 8-2.

Wilmington scored in each of the game's first four innings and in five of the first six. The Rocks plated a single score in the first, two more in the second, six in the third and three more times in the fourth.

Ten Blue Crew batters came to the plate in the six-run third. Norris' triple was the big blow, but it was just one of five consecutive one-out run-scoring hits. Rey Navarro, Ben Theriot, Juan Rivera, and Adrian Ortiz each added RBI singles in the frame. They also all scored runs.

One frame later Ortiz came through with an RBI single, while Theriot was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force home a run and Rivera's sacrifice fly brought home another score.

Navarro and Ortiz ended the night with three-hit performances. Ortiz, Theriot and Rivera added two RBIs. It was a dominant performance and it resulted in the Rocks equaling their largest margin of victory of the season.

On the mound, Wilmington got five up-and-down innings from starter Chris Dwyer. The left-hander fanned seven and walked two. He surrendered two tallies in the second on Drew Hedman's RBI double and two more in the fifth on the night's oddest play. With men at second and third Oscar Tejeda's rocket grounder took a bad bounce on Rivera at second base. The ball bounced so high in the air it allowed not only the runner at third to score, but also Ryan Lavarnway from second base, despite the fact that the ball never left the infield.

In the other frames Dwyer (5-3) looked dominant. He whiffed two in the first, worked around consecutive inning-opening walks in the third and set the side down in order with two strikeouts in the fourth. It was the Carolina League All-Star's fifth victory in his last nine starts. The team is 8-1 during those nine outings.

Wilmington opens a new series in Frederick on Sunday at 6 p.m. Recently promoted right-hander *Bryan Paukovits* makes his Advanced-A debut on the mound for the Rocks, while the first-half champs counter with right-hander Ryan O'Shea (4-3, 3.44).

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