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State College Spikes Game Notes - July 13 vs. Tri-City

July 13, 2015 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
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2015 STATE COLLEGE SPIKES GAME NOTES

Monday, July 13 - 12:00 p.m.

Medlar Field at Lubrano Park - University Park, PA

TRI-CITY VALLEYCATS - Houston Astros (12-11) at 

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES - St. Louis Cardinals (10-12)

Game #23 / Home Game #14

Starting Pitchers:

State College - RHP Carson Cross (1-1, 6.75)

Tri-City - LHP Alex Winkelman (0-0, 0.00)

TODAY (12 noon vs. Tri-City): Super Splash Day...Buck Day presented by 95.3 FM 3WZ...Post-Game Kids Run the Bases presented by Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc.

SATURDAY, JULY 18 (7:05 p.m. vs. Batavia): Rowan Wick Home Run King Poster Giveaway (First 1,000 Fans, All Ages) presented by Penn State Hershey Medical Group...Central PA Fod Bank Food Drive Night/Upward Bound Night...Lion Country Kia Plinko...Post-Game Kids Run the Bases presented by Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc.

SUNDAY, JULY 19 (6:05 p.m. vs. Batavia): Corey Feldman Appearance presented by Comcast Spotlight...FIREWORKS presented by Northwest

-SPIKES FACE VALLEYCATS IN NYPLCS REMATCH: Today, the State College Spikes continue their 10th Season in Central PA with the finale of a three-game series against the Tri-City ValleyCats at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The matchup reunites the teams who have participated in each of the last two New York-Penn League Championship Series. Tri-City's last regular-season visit to State College was in 2013, when the Spikes swept a three-game series before the ValleyCats took the title. In 2014, Tri-City took two out of three in the regular season at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium in Troy, NY, but State College won its first-ever NYPL championship. All-time, the Spikes are 16-19 against the ValleyCats over the regular season and postseason, including a 7-10 record in games played at Medlar FIeld at Lubrano Park.

-LAST GAME: Casey Grayson extended his on-base streak to 21 games, and his hitting streak to 12 games, but the Spikes were held in check as they fell to the Tri-City ValleyCats, 3-0, on Sunday evening at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Grayson prolonged both streaks with a seventh-inning single just inside the bag down the third base line, one of five hits on the game for the Spikes. State College's biggest threat was in the eighth, when a wild pitch on strike three to Craig Aikin, a two-out single by Thomas Spitz, and a walk by Mike Pritchard loaded the bases. However, Tri-City reliever Juan Santos was able to douse the threat by eliciting a inning-ending out on the ground at second base. Pat Porter did the damage for the ValleyCats, collecting three hits and driving in all three of the night's runs.

-CROSS MAKES SECOND START FOR SPIKES: Right-hander Carson Cross gets the ball for State College tonight in his third professional appearance on the mound today. Cross recovered from allowing three runs over an inning-plus in his first pro start on June 30 in Staten Island to face the minimum over three innings for his first pro win last Monday in Auburn, helping keep the game close so the Spikes come back from a four-run deficit to win. The UConn product went 10-2 with a 2.29 ERA over 15 starts this past spring, striking out 108 batters and walking just 25 over 106 innings in his senior year.

-VALLEYCATS SEND WINKELMAN TO MOUND: Left-hander Alex Winkelman gets the start for Tri-City in a shuffle of the rotation. Winkelman just joined Tri-City on Saturday from Rookie-level Greenville, where he went 2-1 with a 4.35 ERA over appearances, including one start. The southpaw has not gone longer than 3 1/3 innings in any start this year, and allowed five runs, four of them earned, to Johnson City in his final Appalachian League start on Wednesday. Winkelman was the Astros' 21st-round draft choice this year out of Southeast Missouri State.

-GRAYSON DELIVERING BIG NUMBERS: Casey Grayson has reached base in all 21 games he has played so far to post the longest active streak in the New York-Penn League, and has also put together a 12-game hitting streak, also the longest such active string in the league. The University of Houston product still leads the NYPL in batting average with a .395 mark, and his .465 on-base percentage is tops in the league. Grayson's pair of runs batted in two nights ago also bumped his season total to 17, the third-most in the loop, and he is just five games shy of Rowan Wick's club record of 26 straight games reaching base, set just last year.

-SPIKE MARKS: Tri-City's win at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park two nights ago was the ValleyCats' first in the regular season since August 9, 2010 ...Grayson is hitting .538 with runners in scoring position and two outs this season...The Spikes are fifth in the NYPL as a team with a .253 batting average...Tri-City does not have a triple yet this year, and is the only team without one in the NYPL...State College played makeshift doubleheaders each of the last two seasons on Super Splash Days, but is back to a single game this year...Landon Beck's 0.76 WHIP is second-best in the league behind Elieser Hernandez, who was promoted from Tri-City yesterday.

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