Spinners Continue to Impress with Win, 5-3
June 29, 2015 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Lowell Spinners News Release
BURLINGTON, VT - The young 2015 season has been very good to the Lowell Spinners. Clutch hitting, combined with quality starts from a diverse pitching staff, have pushed the team to the top of the New York-Penn League through the first two weeks. In the first game of a doubleheader with Stedler Division rival Vermont Lake Monsters, the Spinners spotted the Lake Monsters to an early lead, but then roared back in the fifth and sixth innings to claim a 5-3 victory.
Vermont (3-6) opened the scoring in Game 1 as first baseman Chris Isiart drove a 3-1 offering from Spinner starter Dioscar Romero (1-1, 7.94) over the right field wall for a two-run homer.
Lowell (9-1), after being no-hit thru four innings, awoke in the fifth as Josh Ockimey singled to lead off the inning and white-hot Victor Acosta pushed him across with a deep triple into the right-center gap. After a groundout, Brandon Magee tied the game with a bloop single, scoring Acosta. Then with two outs, Jhon Nunez singled up the middle, moving Magee to third and Magee came across with the go-ahead run on a throwing error during the play. The hit parade continued as Luis Alexander Basabe dropped a single into right field to score Nunez with the team's fourth run.
Ockimey then launched the first homerun of the 2015 season for the Spinners into Vermont's bullpen in the sixth inning to extend the lead to three runs.
The Lake Monsters cut the lead in the sixth on a double, a groundout and a sacrifice fly off of reliever Enfember Martinez and then rallied in the seventh as they loaded the bases on two hit batsmen and a walk, but Edwar Garcia came in for the pressure save, striking out Vermont shortstop Mikey White to leave the bases loaded and preserve the win.
Romero settled down after the rocky first inning, retiring five in a row at one point, and exited the game after five innings with six strikeouts and his first victory as a Spinner.
Lowell, which currently leads the NYPL in average and average with runners in scoring position, was led by Ockimey who had a multi-hit night, breaking up the no-hitter in the fifth and then putting the game away with his homerun in the sixth. Acosta continues to hit when in the lineup, hitting .458 through his first six games.
Luis Ramos (1-0, 7.27) will be on the bump for Game 2 in this doubleheader.
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