CarL1 Salem Red Sox

Salem knocks off Lynchburg, 6-2

Published on June 29, 2009 under Carolina League (CarL1)
Salem Red Sox News Release


Salem, VA (June 29, 2009) - The Red Sox finally gave Kyle Weiland some run support and the righthander did the rest as Salem took down Lynchburg 6-2 on Monday evening at Lewis-Gale Field. With Che-Hsuan Lin jacking a leadoff homer in the first, three different batters registering three hits, and five total hitters recording multiple hits, the Sox offense remained in its groove and rode another strong pitching performance to the winner's circle. The victory concludes the brief two-game homestand, as the Red Sox now kick off a ten-game road trip, beginning Tuesday night against the same Hillcat club they have split with the past two games.

Entering Monday night, Red Sox righthander Kyle Weiland had allowed one earned run over his last four starts, but had only earned one victory in June. On the season, Weiland had been given fewer than four runs a game, fewest for any of the Red Sox hurlers who have started more than six games. But the Red Sox erupted early and often for Weiland on Monday, scoring three in the third and two more in the second to lead 5-0. Weiland retired the first 11 batters he faced and struck out a season-high seven Hillcats to pick up his third win of the season with five and two-thirds innings of shutout baseball. The Notre Dame-alumnus finished the month of June with an ERA of 0.33 (one earned run allowed in 27.2 innings pitched).

Lin's first inning homer off fellow countryman Chi-Hung Cheng gave the Red Sox the first run for the sixth straight game and all five here in the second half. Three more singles by Tim Federowicz, Yamaico Navarro, and Luis Exposito in the inning, along with an error by third-baseman Eddie Prasch, led to two more runs for Salem in the first. An inning later, The Sox added two more, as Kris Negron's leadoff single was followed up by a Jason Place RBI double and another Federowicz RBI single.

In four games with Salem, Federowicz has recorded 10 hits, going 10-21 with four doubles and four RBI. Fed-Ex finished 3-5 on Monday night, while Exposito and Negron each went 3-4. Lin and Navarro tabled two hits apiece as the Red Sox compiled double-digit hits for the fifth straight game to start the half. Overall, Salem has drilled 65 hits in five games, leading to four wins.

Weiland encountered some turbulence in fourth, fifth, and sixth innings after gliding past the first 11 batters in order. He escaped a two-out, two-on situation in the fourth, somehow wriggled out of a bases-loaded, nobody out jam in the fifth, and then was much appreciative when Ryne Miller recorded the final out of the sixth to preserve the shutout and alleviate the two-on, one-out predicament in his final frame of work. The Hillcats scrapped single runs off Miller in the seventh and eighth innings, but Derrick Loop arrived to close the door in the ninth and give Salem the victory.

The Red Sox, now 36-38 on the season and 18-16 on the road this year, embark on a ten-game road trip, beginning Tuesday at City Stadium in Lynchburg. Eammon Portice gets the start for Salem, while Jeff Locke, who moved from the Braves to the Pirates organization in the Nate McClouth swap, goes for Lynchburg. Game time is set for 7:05.

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