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State College Spikes Game Notes - August 6 at West Virginia

August 6, 2015 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
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2015 STATE COLLEGE SPIKES GAME NOTES

Thursday, August 6 - 7:05 p.m.

Monongalia County Ballpark - Granville, WV

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES - St. Louis Cardinals (21-23) at

WEST VIRGINIA BLACK BEARS - Pittsburgh PIrates (23-22)

Game #45 / Road Game #22

Starting Pitchers:

State College - RHP Landon Beck (1-3, 2.72)

West Virginia - RHP Bret Helton (2-4, 5.65)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 (6:05 p.m. vs. Mahoning Valley): Jerome Bettis Gold Jacket Bobblehead Giveaway (First 1,000 Fans, All Ages) pres. by The Nittany Lion Inn & The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel and ESPN Radio 1450...Jerome Bettis Gold Jacket Jersey-off-the-Back Auction pres. by PSECU to benefit Children's Miracle Network....FIREWORKS presented by PSECU...Kids Day pres. by First National Bank...Kids Eat & Play Free pres. by Dairy Queen Grill & Chill...Philipsburg-Osceola Community Night featuring FREE Kids Zone! pres. by Friends of Jake Corman...Pre-Game Catch on the Field (5:00-5:30 p.m.)...Post-Game Kids Run the Bases pres. by Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc....Veteran Appreciation Day pres. by SGT Bob & VFW Post 5825...WHVL-TV Live Game Broadcast...Chevy Youth Baseball Clinic (11 a.m.)

MONDAY, AUGUST 10 (7:05 p.m. vs. Mahoning Valley): Buck Night presented by 95.3 FM 3WZ

-SPIKES CONTINUE ROAD TRIP AGAINST BLACK BEARS: The State College Spikes continue their 10th Season tonight as they begin a three-game series against the West Virginia Black Bears with a matchup at Monongalia County Ballpark. The matchups are part of a six-game road swing for the Spikes, who went 1-2 at Batavia to start the trip. State College is 4-2 this season against West Virginia, and took two out of three games from the Black Bears at Monongalia County Ballpark from July 15-17. The Spikes are 2 1/2 games back of the New York-Penn League Wild Card lead, with the Black Bears just a game back entering Thursday night.

-LAST GAMES: The Spikes fell to the Batavia Muckdogs in two close games on Wednesday night at Dwyer Stadium, with Batavia taking the first game in 10 innings, 2-1, and the second by a 3-1 score. Casey Grayson delivered three hits and reached base four times in the first game. The first game was decided by Giovanny Alfonzo's sacrifice fly to right to give the Muckdogs a walk-off win. The Spikes had taken a 1-0 lead in the sixth when Leobaldo Pina scored on Orlando Olivera's RBI groundout, but Travis Brewster tied it for Batavia in the bottom half of the inning with a run-scoring groundout of his own. In game two, Olivera doubled in a run to cut a 2-0 deficit in half in the sixth, but Mike Pritchard was thrown out at the plate trying to tie the game. Angel Reyes, who doubled in the first two Batavia runs in the fourth to give the Muckdogs the lead, tripled in the home half of the sixth and scored on a Yuniel Ramirez sacrifice fly to complete the scoring.

-BECK BACK TO THE HILL FOR SPIKES: Right-hander Landon Beck gets the ball for State College tonight. Beck, who is seventh in the New York-Penn League in earned run average with a 2.72 mark, is making his seventh start and his ninth overall appearance for the Spikes this evening. The right-hander allowed two runs on three hits and two walks over six innings against Lowell in his last start. Beck also struck out a season-high nine batters in the outing, just one shy of the franchise's single-game record. The Anderson University product is 1-1 with a save and a 1.29 ERA in three road appearances this year.

-BLACK BEARS GO WITH HELTON FOR SERIES OPENER: West Virginia will send right-hander Bret Helton to the mound to start tonight's game. Helton is making his ninth start of the season, but went just 1 1/3 innings against Connecticut last time out, matching his shortest outing of the season. The Pirates' 2015 ninth-round draft choice out of Utah, started against State College on July 16 and took the loss after yielding three runs, two of them earned, over five innings of work. Helton has allowed opposing hitters a .304 average over 28 2/3 innings this summer.

-GRAYSON DELIVERING BIG NUMBERS: Casey Grayson is still at or near the top of several leaderboards in the New York-Penn League. The University of Houston product is leading the NYPL batting race with a .336 average. Grayson's .434 on-base percentage is second in the league, and he occupies spots in the NYPL's top five in hits (T-1st, 49), runs batted in (4th, 26) and walks (T-2nd, 26). The Cypress, TX native has also reached base in every home game he has played this season, a 23-game string.

-SPIKE MARKS: Jhohan Acevedo became the seventh Spikes player with two triples in the same game on Saturday...Danny Martin was the last to accomplish the feat on June 21 of this year...Ian McKinney earned promotion to Single-A Peoria Monday after earning the win on Sunday...McKinney went 4-2 with a 2.76 ERA in eight starts...Mike Pritchard is tied for the league lead in runs scored with 30 on the season...Leobaldo Pina is tied for third in the league in hits with 48...Four different Spikes pitchers - Beck, McKinney, Juan Perez, and Jorge Rodriguez - are in the top ten in the league in ERA...The Spikes are fifth in the league in team ERA with a 3.31 mark...State College is 5-1 on turf this year, with a sweep of Hudson Valley and a 2-1 record at West Virginia.

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