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Staten Island Walks Past Lake Monsters 4-3 On Tuesday

August 27, 2013 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


STATEN ISLAND, NY --- Staten Island took advantage of 10 walks by Vermont pitchers, including five by starter Lee Sosa in the second inning, to build a four-run lead and held on for a 4-3 New York-Penn League victory Tuesday night at Richmond County Ballpark to extend the Lake Monsters current losing streak to seven games.

None of the first seven Staten Island batters in the bottom of the second inning put the ball in play as Sosa walked the first three batters and then, after a strikeout, forced home two runs with a pair of bases loaded walks. Sosa worked out of further trouble with another strikeout and a groundout to end the inning.

The Yankees built a 4-0 lead on a Bubba Jones RBI single in the third inning and an RBI ground-rule double from Michael O'Neill in the fourth inning off Sosa (1-4), whose eight walks tied Jason Norderum in 2000 and Anthony Pearson in 2003 for most walks in a single game by a Lake Monsters pitcher. The 10 walks were the most by a Vermont pitchers on the road since 11 at Lowell on August 2, 2003.

Vermont scored a pair of unearned runs in the seventh as Josh Miller reached second on a Yankees error and scored on a RBI single from Luis Baez, who later scored on a Melvin Mercedes RBI groundout. Miller tripled with one out in the ninth and scored on a Baez sacrifice fly before Xavier Macklin grounded out to end the game. The Lake Monsters are now 8-12 in one-run games this season.

Mercedes was 2-for-3 with an RBI for the Lake Monsters, who played without both Boog Powell and Chad Pinder in the lineup on Tuesday. Yankees starter Andrew Benak allowed four hits with no walks and eight strikeouts over five scoreless innings for the win as three Staten Island pitchers combined to strikeout 12 and walk none in the second straight win over Vermont.

The seven-game losing streak is the longest for Vermont since a nine-game losing streak August 19-27, 2012. The Lake Monsters will try and snap the losing streak in the series finale at Staten Island on Wednesday before heading to Tri-City for a doubleheader on Thursday and a single game Friday. Vermont (29-38) returns to Centennial Field for a five-game homestand to end the season August 31-September 4.

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