NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Stanley's Two Home-Runs Lead Tri-City to WIn

June 23, 2009 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT --- Nick Stanley hit a solo home run in the second and a three-run shot in the fourth inning to give the Tri-City ValleyCats all the runs they would need in a 4-1 victory over the Vermont Lake Monsters in New York-Penn League action Tuesday night at historic Centennial Field.

Stanley's first home run off Vermont starter Jose Pinales (0-1) came with two outs in the top of the second inning and just snuck over the fence down the right field-line for a 1-0 lead. In the fourth inning, Nick Castro walked to leadoff the inning and Rene Garcia reached on a one-out fielding error before Stanley connected for his second home run of the night off Pinales for a 4-0 ValleyCats advantage.

Meanwhile Tri-City starter Wander Alvino (1-0) was shutting down the Lake Monsters offense, allowing just two hits with a walk and two strikeouts over five innings for the victory. The only two hits allowed by Alvino were a two-out J.P. Ramirez double in the first inning and a two-out double in the sixth inning by Dan Killian, who was gunned down trying to stretch it into a triple.

Vermont got its only run of the night in the bottom of the ninth off ValleyCat reliever James MacDonald as Francisco Soriano led off with a walk, moved to second on a Sean Nicol infield single and scored on a Ramirez one-out RBI double.

But with the tying run at the plate and just one out, MacDonald struckout J.R. Higley looking and got Adam Amar to groundout to second base to end the game giving Tri-City (1-2) its first win of the season.

Pinales gave up the four runs (three earned) on four hits over 5 2/3 innings, while Federico Tanco tossed 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief for the Lake Monsters. With his two doubles, Ramirez has now hit safely in all five games on the season for Vermont (2-3).

Mike Modica tossed two hitless innings of relief for Tri-City and while Brian Kemp was 3-for-4 at the plate for the ValleyCats, who outhit the Lake Monsters 7-5 in the game.

The two teams will play the final game of the three-game series on Wednesday night at Centennial beginning at 7:05 pm. The Lake Monsters will then host the Oneonta Tigers for a three-game series Thursday through Saturday night to close out the six-game homestand.

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