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Sportman And Grundy Lead Vermont To 5-2 Win At Auburn On Saturday

August 9, 2014 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


AUBURN, NY --- J.P. Sportman put the Lake Monsters ahead for good with a two-out, two-run single in the fifith inning and Jerad Grundy allowed two runs over five innings for his second straight victory as Vermont won for the seventh time in its last 10 games with a 5-2 New York-Penn League victory over the Auburn Doubledays at Falcon Park on Saturday night in the first of a three-game series.

The Doubledays jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning with a pair of runs on three hits and a walk off Grundy, who settled down to allow just two hits and strikeout four over the next four innings. Grundy (3-5), who has won three of his last four starts, has now allowed just three runs over 10 innings to earn the win in his last two starts. Later with Vermont leading 4-2 and the bases loaded in the seventh, Corey Walter got a groundout to end the threat and tossed a scoreless eighth inning before Koby Gauna had a 1-2-3 ninth inning for his seventh save in seven opportunities.

Vermont got its first run in the second on a Ben McQuown sacrifice fly to cut the Auburn lead to 2-1, then the Lake Monsters used a fielding error, hit batter and passed ball to put runners on second and third with no outs in the fifth. Auburn starter Robbie Dickey got two-thirds of the way out of the jam with a pair of foul pop outs to first base, but Sportman lined a 2-2 pitch to centerfield to score McQuown and Seong-min Kim for a 3-2 lead.

The Lake Monsters added an insurance run in the seventh on three straight two-out singles, a pair of infield hits and a Jose Brizuela RBI single to right, and then another run in the eighth on three straight one-out singles including a Kim RBI single to center. Sportman, Brizuela and Max Kuhn each had two hits for Vermont (23-32), which has won three of the first four games on the six-game roadtrip.

Bryan Mejia, Dale Carey and Raudy Read each had two hits for Auburn (25-29), while Dickey (0-2) allowed three runs (one earned) on three hits over five innings to take the loss. Yairo Munoz returned to the Lake Monsters lineup after two days off, going 0-for-5 to snap his 17-game hitting streak (third longest in the league this season and tied for fourth longest in Vermont history.

The Lake Monsters and Doubledays will play the second of the three-game series at Auburn on Sunday beginning at 5:05 pm. After the series and roadtrip finale on Monday, Vermont will return to historic Centennial Field for a six-game homestand against Aberdeen and Brooklyn starting on Tuesday.

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