EL1 Chesapeake Baysox

'Sox come off in eighth, beat Portland, 8-4

Published on June 14, 2006 under Eastern League (EL1)
Chesapeake Baysox News Release


June 14, 2006 - 'Baysox Beat Sea Dogs For First Time This Season Wednesday evening the Baysox and Sea Dogs played a much closer game than the one a night previous. Both teams were deadlocked at four through seven frames of baseball but this time the home team would pull away in the 8th inning and never look back as the Baysox outhit and outscored the visiting Sea Dogs for the first time this season.

Fresh off an eight inning shutout, James Johnson went just six innings but gave up home runs to both Luis Jimenez and Brandon Moss. The New York native only struck out one batter, uncharacteristic of his outings but tonight Johnson had some run support.

Portland's Jimenez hit a solo shot to lead off the 2nd inning and Moss added his solo shot in the 3rd for a two run lead. But Bowie narrowed the lead in the bottom of the 3rd . After singling up the middle, Ryan Hubele scored from second compliments of a Gera Alvarez singled into left field.

Portland, however, came back with two in the 4th as they got they loaded the bags with the first three batters and scored on a sac fly and a bases loaded walk to jump the lead to 4-2 in favor of the visitors.

But the Baysox bullpen would hold the Sea Dogs at four runs while their offense kept scoring runs. Pete Shier smacked the first pitch he saw in the 5th inning into left field for a double and scored on Tony Alvarez' successive RBI single. Alvarez moved to second on a two out Leo Daigle single and scored from second on two wild pitches thrown by Sea Dog starter Luis Mendoza.

Bowie struck again in the 7th for one more insurance run. Cory Keylor reached on a fielding error as Portland's SS David Bacani got underneath Keylor's pop up but dropped the ball in the infield. That would prove very useful as the right-fielder would end up scoring on two singles off Portland reliever Randy Beam. Beam was replaced by Jonathan Searles in the bottom of the 7th with two outs and got Tripper Johnson swinging to end the threat. However, after holding Portland to no runs in the top of the 8th the home team unleashed on the Sea Dogs bullpen.

Hubele led off with his second single up the middle of the game, stole second and was knocked on a Tony Alvarez ground rule double into right center. Gera Alvarez knocked in Tony with a single into shallow left field that Bacani laid out for but was deep enough to send a moving Tony Alvarez to the plate from second base. After Searles was replaced with Mike Bumatay Keylor drew a walk, Daigle singled Keylor to second and Noah Hall plated the Ohio grad on the Baysox 16th hit of the ball game. Daigle was thrown out trying to reach third base on the play to end the inning.

Portland brought up their 2-3-4 hitters but Baysox closer, Marino Salas, shut the door on all threw getting Moss to fly out to left, caught Chad Spann looking and blew strike three right past Jimenez with an 92 mph heater to end the ball game and secure the Baysox 28th victory of the year in front of 1,770 fans.

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