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Stars Allow Season High 18 Runs in Loss

May 20, 2014 - Southern League (SL1)
Huntsville Stars News Release


Huntsville, AL-The Birmingham Barons scored a season high eighteen runs as they hit five homeruns leading them to an 18-9 win Monday night over the Huntsville Stars at Joe Davis Stadium. The win ended the Barons five game losing streak, while the loss ended the Stars four game winning streak.

Birmingham scored four runs against Stars starter Jacob Barnes in the second inning. Kevan Smith scored on a wild pitch and Jaime Pedroza hit a three-run homer to right field for a 4-0 Barons lead.

The Stars scored in the bottom of the second against Mike Recchia who was making his Double-A debut. Kentrail Davis grounded a ball towards the pitcher's mound which went off Recchia's glove. Shawn Zarraga was able to score making it 4-1.

The Barons hit their second homerun of the game in the fourth against Barnes. Michael Early hit a two-run shot making it 6-1.

Barnes, who fell to 0-2 on the year, lasted 3.2 innings giving up six runs on four hits. He also walked four.

With the Stars trailing 10-1 going into the sixth inning, they started to make a comeback. Mitch Haniger and Greg Hopkins each provided rbi singles. Then Shea Vucinich hit a grand slam over the left field wall. It was his first homerun of the year, and the third grand slam by a Stars player this year. It brought the Stars within 10-7.

That would be as close as the Stars would get, because Birmingham came back with five runs in their seventh highlighted by a two-run homer off the bat of Jeremy Farrell.

With the Stars trailing 15-7, they scored their final runs in the seventh and eighth innings. Zarraga had an rbi single in the seventh and Josh Prince scored in the eighth when Zarraga reached on a throwing error by the shortstop Pedroza.

The Barons hit their fifth and final homerun of the game in the ninth against David Goforth. Christian Marrero hit a three-run homer.

Recchia(1-0) won his Barons debut with five innings on five hits.

Birmingham is now 17-27 while the Stars are 30-15. Huntsville still took four out of five from the Barons.

The Stars will have Tuesday off before traveling to Montgomery, Alabama Wednesday to start a five-game series with the Montgomery Biscuits, the Double-A Affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays. The Stars will feature RHP Tyler Cravy(7-1, 1.87). Montgomery will have RHP Jared Mortenson(4-1, 4.82) on the hill. Wednesday's game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 6:50 pm CDT on 92.9 FM, 1450 AM, and wtkiradio.com.



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