AA Sioux Falls Canaries

Sioux City Pitching Douses Pheasants

Published on July 15, 2012 under American Association (AA)
Sioux Falls Canaries News Release


SIOUX CITY, Iowa. - Sioux City Explorers pitcher Ty Marotz used a devastating curveball to keep the hitters off balance Saturday night and lead the Xs to a 6-1 defeat of the Sioux Falls Pheasants.

Marotz (3-1) held the Pheasants to one run on eight scattered hits in seven innings, while striking out five and walking one.

Sioux City (25-30) grabbed a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first and never looked back. After a leadoff double and Brian Bistagne's bunt single, Peter Barrows doubled in a run, and Ray Serrano brought Bistagne home with a groundout.

In the third inning, back-to-back singles off Pheasants starter Rod Scurry (3-4) led to a two-run, two-out double by Kris Sanchez. Ray Serrano's infield single scored another run in the fifth, and Barrows capped the Sioux City scoring with an RBI single in the sixth.

Scurry gave up a season-high 12 hits and all six runs in six innings. He walked two and struck out three. The Pheasants' lone run came from Joe Anthonsen's two-out, RBI single in the seventh. Stranded runners plagued the Pheasants, who cracked four doubles but left 11 men on base, including seven in scoring position.

Tom Heithoff was a bright spot out of the Pheasants bullpen. He struck out five of the seven men he faced in the seventh and eighth innings, including the final four.

Bistagne led the Explorers, going 3-for-4 with three runs scored, a triple and a sacrifice. Barrows, Sanchez and Serrano each had two RBI.

Jonny Kaplan doubled twice for the Pheasants, and Anthonsen and Cesar Nicolas each were 2-for-4.

Winnipeg's loss to St. Paul kept the Pheasants five games out of first place in the North Division.

The Pheasants (27-26) won the first two games of the four-game series and can clinch a series win at 6:05 p.m. on Sunday, July 15, in Sioux City. The game will be broadcast on Sioux Falls Sports Radio 1230-AM KWSN and www.kwsn.com.

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