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State College Spikes Game Notes - September 1 at Mahoning Valley

Published on September 1, 2015 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
State College Spikes News Release


Tuesday, September 1 - 7:05 p.m.

Eastwood Field - Niles, OH

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES - St. Louis Cardinals (36-33) at

MAHONING VALLEY SCRAPPERS - Cleveland Indians (30-38)

Game #70 / Road Game #37

Starting Pitchers:

State College - RHP Dailyn Martinez (3-5, 3.49)

Mahoning Valley - RHP Micah Miniard (0-0, 0.00)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT (7:05 p.m. vs. Batavia): Half-Price Wednesday presented by BIG Froggy 101...PSU Homecoming Night...Back to the Future Night...Tech Night...Post-Game Kids Run the Bases presented by Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc....College 3-2-1 Special

THURSDAY NIGHT (7:05 p.m. vs. Batavia): $1 Beer Thursday presented by 93.7 THE BUS...FIREWORKS Night...THON Night...Live Music by StressBusters Entertainment...Post-Game Kids Run the Bases presented by Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc....College 3-2-1 Special

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-SPIKES IN MAHONING VALLEY FOR CRUCIAL SERIES: The State College Spikes, who are now tied for second in the New York-Penn League Wild Card race with West Virginia, continue their 10th Season this evening with the final game of a four-game series against the Mahoning Valley Scrappers at Eastwood Field. State College is now a half-game behind McNamara Division co-leaders Hudson Valley and Staten Island in the Wild Card race. The Spikes shut out the Scrappers in back-to-back games on June 25-26 at Eastwood Field, and have three shutout victories in posting a 7-1 record against Mahoning Valley this year. All-time, the Spikes are 52-46 against the Scrappers, with a 21-29 mark in games played in Ohio.

-LAST GAME: Jorge Rodriguez and Steven De La Cruz combined on a six-hit shutout as the State College Spikes made up significant ground in the New York-Penn League Wild Card race with a 3-0 win over the Mahoning Valley Scrappers on Monday night at Eastwood Field. Rodriguez allowed just five hits and two walks over 6 2/3 innings, and retired 10 straight batters before allowing a base on balls with two outs in the seventh. The right-hander also struck out five, and reduced his road ERA to 1.36 in the victory. De La Cruz struck out four batters and gave up just one hit and one hit batsman over 2 1/3 innings to earn the save. State College took the lead in the second as Casey Grayson walked and Orlando Olivera moved him to third with a single. Grayson then crossed the plate on Jose Godoy's RBI groundout, and Olivera followed him home on Cole Lankford's run-scoring single. The Spikes added an insurance run in the fifth when Ronnierd Garcia walked, advanced to second on a wild pitch, moved to third on a groundout, and scored on Thomas Spitz's sacrifice fly.

-SPIKES GO WITH MARTINEZ THIS EVENING: State College will send right-hander Dailyn Martinez to the mound for his 13th start of the season. Martinez tossed seven scoreless frames against Mahoning Valley in his last visit to Eastwood Field on June 26, and has defeated the Scrappers in both outings against them this season. The Santiago, Dominican Republic product has a 2.67 ERA on the road this season. Martinez made his second seven-inning start of the year last time out, allowing three runs on six hits but taking the loss against Auburn on Thursday.

-MINIARD MAKES DEBUT FOR SCRAPPERS: Mahoning Valley right-hander Micah Miniard will make his first start for the Scrappers this evening after being promoted from the Rookie-level Arizona League Indians this past weekend. The 19-year-old was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the eighth round in 2014 out of Boyle County High School in Danville, KY. Miniard made six appearances for the AZL Indians in 2014, notching a save, before going 3-7 with a 4.29 ERA in 12 appearances, 10 of them starts, in Arizona in 2015.

-MARTIN EARNS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD: Spikes Athletic Trainer Dan Martin has been named the New York-Penn League Athletic Trainer of the Year by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS). The award is given annually to one member of each of the 16 leagues in Minor League Baseball, as well as one award for the Dominican Summer League, with an additional award is given to the Minor League Coordinator of the Year. Martin is now eligible for the Minor League Trainer of the Year award as well, which will be given at the 2015 Winter Meetings in Nashville, TN.

-GRAYSON GOING BACK TO THE TOP: Spikes infielder Casey Grayson now has two homers and two triples to go with his team-leading 16 doubles this season. Grayson is now fourth in the New York-Penn League in batting average with a .318 mark, with his .427 on-base percentage placing him second in the league behind Bobby Wernes of Tri-City. The University of Houston product is also leading the NYPL with 71 hits, and is tops in the loop with 43 walks.

-SPIKE MARKS: Pedro Echemendia is first in the NYPL with 24 appearances, and is fourth in saves with 10...Echemendia also leads the Spikes with six wins on the mound, and his 10 saves are the most for any Spikes pitcher since Ronald Uviedo posted a franchise record 12 saves in 2007 ...Mike Pritchard is tied for third in the NYPL with 40 runs scored, and has struck out just once every 10.60 plate appearances, the second-best ratio in the league

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