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Squeeze Bunt Bottom 9th Gives Vermont 5-4 Win Friday Over Tri-City

September 2, 2011 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT --- Dusty Robinson squeezed home Nick Rickles with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Vermont Lake Monsters beat the Tri-City ValleyCats 5-4 in New York-Penn League action Friday night at historic Centennial Field. The win leaves the Lake Monsters one game behind Connecticut for first-place in the Stedler Division with two games remaining.

Vermont led 4-3 in the top of the ninth when Lake Monster closer gave up a leadoff game-tying home run to Miles Hamblin to tie the game at four. Rickles led off the bottom of the ninth with a line drive single to left and advanced all the way from first to third on a Bobby Crocker sacrifice bunt. Robinson then laid down a squeeze bunt on the first pitch back towards the mound and Rickles beat the throw to the plate to score the winning run.

The ValleyCats jumped out on top with three runs in the top of the second off Vermont starter Kurt Wunderlich on a Jacke Healey two-run triple and Miguel Arrendell RBI single. The Lake Monsters quickly got two runs back in the bottom of the inning as Dusty Robinson led off with a triple and scored on a wild pitch. B.A. Vollmuth followed with a double and scored on a throwing error on a Chad Lewis infield single.

Vermont took the lead in the fourth as Vollmuth led off with his third double in two games with the Lake Monsters and scored on a Lewis RBI triple to center. Michael Fabiaschi followed with an RBI double to left center to score Lewis for a 4-3 Vermont lead.

Wunderlich allowed three runs on four hits over six innings with five strikeouts, while Peters (1-1) retired three straight with two strikeouts after the game-tying homer in the ninth for his first win of season. Mitchell Lambson (2-6) allowed one run on three hits in 2 1/3 innings to take the loss for Tri-City (33-40).

The win clinched at least a .500 season for Vermont (37-35), just the sixth time in the team's 18-year history with a .500 or better record and just the third time in the last 15 years. Coupled with a Connecticut doubleheader sweep of Lowell, the Lake Monsters are now one full game behind the Tigers for first-place.

Vermont needs to either win both its remaining games and have Connecticut lose one of its two or the Lake Monsters need to win one of their remaining two games and have the Tigers lose both of theirs. Vermont hosts Tri-City on Saturday at 6:05 pm at Centennial and then wrap up the regular-season on Sunday at 1:05 pm, while Connecticut hosts Lowell Saturday at 7:05 pm and Sunday at 1:05 pm.

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