SAL1 Charleston Dirty Birds

Shorebirds take third in a row from Power

Published on August 13, 2006 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Charleston Dirty Birds News Release


Salisbury, MD (August 13, 2006) -The Delmarva Shorebirds erased an early deficit on Sunday afternoon and defeated the West Virginia Power for the third straight time, by the final score of 8-5.

The Power took an early 2-0 lead on Angel Salome's two run homer in the top of the first inning. The homerun was his tenth of the year, and it gave him 84 RBI on the season, which leads the league. Delmarva answered quickly on a two out, three run double from Ryan Finan in the bottom of the first inning to take the lead. Delmarva scored three more times in the bottom of the third on a two run single from Jonathan Tucker and Mark Fleisher crossed the plate on a passed ball.

Zach Dillon hit a solo homerun in the bottom of the fourth inning to give the Shorebirds a 7-2 lead. In the fifth inning Lorenzo Cain hit a solo homerun, his sixth of the year to bring the Power within four. The Shorebirds answered in the bottom of the inning with an RBI single from Blake Davis. Michael Brantley scored on Zach Dillon's throwing error in the seventh inning, and the Power scored their final run on Lorenzo Cain's RBI single in the ninth. The base hit was Cain's 141st hit of the year, which leads the league.

Kyle Schmidt (3-2) got the win, and Shawn Ferguson (1-2) got the loss. The Power are 62-56 on the year and 23-26 in the second half after the loss while the Shorebirds improved to 54-61 overall and 18-30 in the second half after the win.

The Power are off on Monday but will begin a four game series against the Hickory Crawdads at Appalachian Power Park on Tuesday night. Right hander Michael Crotta (0-0, 0.00) will make the start for Hickory and the Power will counter with left hander Julian Cordero (1-0, 7.04). The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM.

For more information contact the Power Front Offices at (304) 344-2287 or visit the Power website at www.wvpower.com.

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