Rosario's Record, Captains' Comeback Not Enough

Published on August 15, 2010 under American Association (AA)
Shreveport-Bossier Captains News Release


SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Jovanny Rosario raised both hands to the sky as he set a new single-season American Association record by stealing his 51st base of 2010, with a steal of second in the top of the seventh inning on Sunday. Unfortunately for the Shreveport-Bossier Captains' centerfielder, his club was down 12-8, and could not get any closer in the last three innings, as a furious comeback was for naught in a 12-8 defeat at Lewis and Clark Park.

The Sioux City Explorers (43-40, 18-17 2nd half) scored 10 times in a 15-batter bottom of the second off starter Aaron Cunningham (0-2) and reliever Marcus Salmon, saw their lead shrink to 10-8, but got two insurance runs in the sixth and held on to sweep the Captains (47-36, 18-18), the second time this year (and this half) they have been swept.

After a 1-2-3 bottom of the first, Cunningham allowed a leadoff home run to red-hot Jacob Cruz, before a triple, a hit batter, another triple, a single and his own error came before he retired the first hitter in the inning. Dustin Jones had a single to restart things after that, and two doubles later, Salmon came in, only to allow a home run to Kent Sakamoto to make it 10-0.

Shreveport-Bossier wasted five baserunners in the first three innings, but got two runs against Explorers starter Chad Povich in the fourth on Rosario's first out-of-the-park (and second overall) home run of the season. An inning later, the Captains loaded the bases with no outs, and Andres Rodriguez cleared them with a one-out double. After a single, a wild pitch and an error, Mike Provencher's RBI groundout got the score to 10-7. Rodriguez hit a sacrifice fly an inning later to close the gap to 10-8, but Brian Nichols struck out and Provencher grounded out to end the inning with two men on.

The Explorers got their two final runs when a grounder with a runner on first and no outs took a bad hop and hit Provencher in the face at short, putting Explorers at second and third with no outs. After Mark Haynes got a pop-up, Justin Young came in, and allowed a bloop single over the drawn-in infield on the first pitch he threw to Derek Schermerhorn.

Eddie Delacruz (4-2) restored order with two shutout innings, before Jamie Arneson allowed a hit and a walk in the ninth, but kept the Captains off the scoreboard to finish things off.

Notes: The Captains left 13 men on base.Rosario finished with three hits, while Christopher Garcia had three walks.Eight of the nine Explorers got at least one hit and had at least one run scored, while all nine got on base at least once.The Captains were also swept by Pensacola to start the second half from July 6-8.Rosario broke Brian Fryer's two-year-old record of 50 stolen bases with Fort Worth.The two teams used 11 total pitchers in the game.

The Shreveport-Bossier Captains continue their six-game road trip with a three-game series against the Lincoln Saltdogs, starting on Monday, August 16, at 7:05 p.m. The Captains return home to finish their regular season Fair Grounds Field schedule with a three-game series against the Pensacola Pelicans, starting on Friday, August 20, at 7:05 p.m. That night is GAP Broadcasting "Practice Safe Text" Night, as well as Willis-Knighton Mouth Cancer Awareness Night and BPCC Night at the ballpark. All games are broadcast streaming live on ustream.tv. For information on tickets, promotions, advertising, and other opportunities with the Captains, check out the team's Web site at www.sbcaptains.com, or call the Fair Grounds Field office at (318) 636-5555.

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