Sea Dogs Snap Akron's Streak in 3-0 Shutout
June 13, 2010 - Eastern League (EL1)
Akron RubberDucks News Release
AKRON, OH - The Portland Sea Dogs avoided a series sweep Sunday afternoon at Canal Park and ended a franchise-record 12-game winning streak for the Akron Aeros. It was Akron's first loss since May 30th at Binghamton as Portland starter Stephen Fife allowed just two hits in six shutout innings and earned the win front of a crowd of 1,996 fans. The shutout was just the second against the Aeros (32-31) offense this season and the Sea Dogs (33-29) finished with a 4-2 record on their weeklong Western road trip.
The right-handed White ran up his pitch count with three walks in the first three innings before Portland finally got on the scoreboard in the fifth. After striking out the first two batters, White then allowed a walk to Sea Dogs left fielder Che-Hsuan Lin. Ray Chang followed two pitches later with a lining double to left, giving the visitors the early 1-0 lead.
Reliever Connor Graham replaced White in the sixth and Portland shorstop Yamaico Navarro quickly started a rally with a one-out single. He scored two batters later on an RBI base hit by right fielder Ryan Khoury. The Aeros finally collected their first hit of the day later that inning against Fife on an infield single by catcher Miguel Perez. Fife then ended his night by stranding both Perez and second baseman Jason Kipnis to end the frame.
Recently promoted pitcher Shane Lindsay made his Akron debut in relief of Graham in the eighth and promptly struck out the first two batters he faced. He then allowed two walks sandwiched between the second fielding error of the day by shortstop Carlos Rivero, and hit catcher Juan Apodaca with a pitch to provide for the final 3-0 margin.
Fife (3-1) was dominant in his most impressive outing of the season, walking none and cruising through six efficient innings. White (2-2) took the loss and calmed down in his final few innings after the early walks. He fell to 2-2 in five Double-A starts and allowed just one run on two hits in five innings with six strikeouts and four walks.
The Aeros finished with only five singles total in the game with two coming from the hot-hitting back-up catcher Perez. Matt McBride, Lonnie Chisenhall and Kipnis each recorded a single hit and the team did not register a walk for just the sixth time this year as well.
Akron begins their longest and farthest road trip of the season by enjoying a 12-hour bus ride to Manchester, NH on the off day tomorrow. The Aeros and the New Hampshire Fisher Cats Play then begin a three-game series Tuesday night with a 7:05 p.m. first pitch at Merchantsauto.com Stadium. Akron lefty Scott Barnes (2-5, 6.16 ERA) hopes to continue his recent dominant pitching and start a new Akron winning streak against Fisher Cats starter Luis Perez (5-6, 4.54 ERA). Join Ken Carman for Tuesday night's game broadcast, beginning at 6:50 p.m. on Fox Sports 1350 AM and at www.akronaeros.com.
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