SAL1 Charleston RiverDogs

Ross Paints a Beauty, Crawdads Blank RiverDogs, 8-0

Published on June 1, 2010 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Charleston RiverDogs News Release


CHARLESTON, SC - Robbie Ross allowed just one hit in 8.0 scoreless innings of work to lead the Hickory Crawdads over the Charleston RiverDogs, 8-0, in front 2,314 fans in South Atlantic League action at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park Tuesday night.

With the victory Hickory improves to 33-20, while Charleston drops their third contest in their last four, falling to 22-30.

Ross (7-4), a 2nd round pick, gave up a leadoff single to Jimmy Paredes in the first, but did not allow another baserunner. The Kentucky native retired 23 straight batters and faced the minimum through 8.0 innings, which was aided by J.R. Murphy's groundball double play after the Paredes single. Ross walked none, fanned four and is now tied for the league lead in victories and has tossed 14 consecutive shutout innings against the RiverDogs this season.

Hector Nelo got the first two batters of the ninth before allowing an infield single to Ray Kruml to break a skein of 25 straight batter set down. Paredes followed with a groundout to end the game.

Hickory got out to a 3-0 lead in the first against Charleston's Josh Romanski, who was making his professional pitching debut. Leury Garcia singled, moved to second on an error, took third on a double steal with Jared Prince and then scored on a passed ball for a 1-0 lead. Zach Zaneski's two-run double upped the margin, but Romanski struck out the next three batters to finish the inning.

The Crawdads began the fourth with four straight extra-base hits against Romanski, including a leadoff home run by Miguel Velazquez, a Zaneski double, a Cristian Santana RBI double and a monstrous two-run home run from Matt West making the lead 7-0.

Santana concluded the 8-0 affair with a ninth-inning RBI single against Dickson Marquez.

Romanski (0-1) surrendered seven runs on nine hits in just 3,0 innings of work, but Charleston's bullpen gave up only one run on three hits over the last 5.0 innings. Ronny Marte and Gabriel Tatis combined to retire 13 straight Crawdads between the fourth and eighth innings.

Leury Garcia and Zaneski had three hits each, while West and Velazquez belted home runs for Hickory, which was won eight straight games at Riley Park dating back to July 2009.

Game two of this series is scheduled for a 7:05 p.m. first pitch on Wednesday night. Charleston sends right-hander Sean Black (4-3, 4.84 ERA) to the mound, while Hickory counters with left-hander Robbie Erlin (1-1, 0.52 ERA).

FUN AT THE BALLPARK: Every Tuesday is Bi-Lo Two for Tuesday, fans get the chance to double their fun when they present their Bi-Lo Bonus Card at the box office window the day of the game and purchase two tickets for the price of one (valid on G.A., Upper Reserve and Lower Reserve seats). It was also Kraft Singles Tuesday Night Tickets as fans could redeem one Kraft Singles package wrapper for a buy-one, get-one free ticket at the box office. Fans of green were in for an awesome Tuesday. As they kept an eye out for the green paper for a chance to win free money as Look, My Hot Dog is Green! We wrapped a few of our famous dogs in green to give fans a shot to get some green back in their wallets. Those lucky fans who found a hot dog with a green wrapper won anywhere from $2.50 to $100, with $1,000 total up for grabs. All of Tuesday's activities were presented by BI-LO, Kraft, 98.9 Chick FM and The CW.

UP NEXT: We're helping all of the RiverDogs faithful get over that hump-day blues with another All-You-Can-Eat Wild Wednesday. For $20 one can enjoy all-you-can eat and drink menu items in the Ashley View Pub. And get your lederhosen ready because this is German Food Night in the Ashley View Pub. All jocks and sports nuts can let out their inner artists and fan-of-finer things this Wednesday with Bring Your Own Brush. All fans are encouraged to head to the beer garden and paint with local artist Sarah Hickey. We're also giving away PSPs and PS3s with the new game ModNation Racers to a few lucky fans, thanks to SCEA and Radio Tag! Wild Wednesday and BYOB are presented by WAZS.

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