
Stars Allow Season High 17 Runs in Loss
May 14, 2014 - Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release
Chattanooga, TN-The Chattanooga Lookouts, the Double-A Affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers belted four homeruns on their way to scoring a season high seventeen runs as they won game five of their series with the Huntsville Stars 17-6 Wednesday morning at AT&T Field.
The Stars had leads of 4-0, 4-3 and 5-3 but couldn't hang on.
In the fourth inning, the Lookouts tied the game against Huntsville starter Jacob Barnes(0-1). Daniel Mayora hit his fourth homerun of the year, a two-run shot knotting the game up at 5-5. Darnell Sweeney gave the Lookouts the lead for good in that inning on his rbi single.
Barnes, who took his first decision of the season went 3.2 innings giving up seven hits on six earned runs.
The Lookouts who led 6-5, expanded their lead in the fifth inning.
In the fifth inning, the Lookouts posted eight runs, seven of which were scored against reliever Kevin Shackelford. Shackelford was able to retire the first batter O'Koyea Dickson. The next batter however, Scott Schebler popped one up behind second base, where Greg Hopkins couldn't locate the ball in the sun. Schebler wound up at second base with a double. Things unraveled from there. Chris O'Brien made it 7-5 on his rbi double.
Noel Cuevas produced a two-run triple making it 9-5. The next batter, pinch hitter Brian Cavazos-Galvez singled home a run making it 10-5. The Lookouts weren't finished. Erisbel Arruebarrena and Jeremy Hazelbaker followed with back to back rbi doubles making it 12-5. Dickson would also hit a two-run homer against Tommy Toledo giving Chattanooga a 14-5 advantage.
Hazelbaker hit a two-run homer in the seventh for the Lookouts and then pinch hitter Ryan Adams hit their fourth homerun of the day in the ninth making it 17-6.
The seventeen runs the Stars gave up today were a season high. The Lookouts hit four homeruns, one against Barnes, two against Toledo and one against Eric Marzec.
The Stars jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second inning. Josh Prince led off with a solo HR to left field. It was Prince's second of the series and his second on the year. Nick Shaw bunted for an rbi single increasing the lead to 2-0. Barnes was able to score on a throwing error by O'Brien who attempted a pick-off throw at first base. Nick Ramirez blooped a single into center-field giving the Stars a 4-0 lead.
Ramirez finished 3-5 with two rbi and was a homerun away from hitting for the cycle.
Chattanooga improves to 16-23, while the Stars are still a Southern League best 26-14.
The Stars head back to Huntsville and will begin a five-game series Thursday night with the Birmingham Barons, the Double-A Affiliate of the Chicago White Sox at Joe Davis Stadium. The Stars will have RHP Tyler Cravy(6-1, 1.93) on the mound. Birmingham will feature RHP Nick McCully(2-2, 5.29). The game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 6:15 pm on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM, and wtkiradio.com.
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