NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Staten Island wins over Lake Monsters

Published on August 17, 2012 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


BURLINGTON, VT ---  Peter O'Brien went 2-for-3 with three runs, a double and home run as the Staten Island Yankees took the lead for good with four runs in the fifth inning of a 10-3 New York-Penn League victory over the Vermont Lake Monsters on Friday night at historic Centennial Field.

Daniel Robertson had given Vermont a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second inning with a leadoff home to leftfield that hit off the Lake Monsters new video board. Vermont later added another run in the inning on a Chris Bostick RBI single to center scoring Reynaldo Mateo for a 3-1 advantage. The Yankees tied the game in top of the third on a two-run homer from O'Brien off Lake Monsters reliever J.C. Menna.

Staten Island, who had lost six straight and 17 of its previous 18 games, then scored four runs in the fifth after Menna had retired the first two Yankees of the inning. Two hit batters and a walk loaded the bases before a Daniel Lopez RBI infield single gave Staten Island the lead and Isaias Tejeda followed with a three-run double down the leftfield line for a 7-3 lead.

After Vermont collected seven hits in the first three innings, four Staten Island relievers combined to allow just one hit (a seventh-inning infield single) over the final 

5 2/3 innings.  Charles Basford struckout one in 1 2/3 hitless innings after taking over for starter Evan Rutckyj in the fourth inning to pick up the victory. Matt Duran and Lopez each scored two runs, while Jose Rosario was 3-for-4 with two RBI for Staten Island (17-39).

Robertson went 2-for-4 including his first home run in his seventh game with the Lake Monsters, while Menna (0-7) was charged with five runs on four hits over 2 1/3 innings for league-leading seventh loss of the season. Deyvi Jimenez struckout three and gave up just one hit in 2 1/3 scoreless innings of relief for the Lake Monsters.

After taking two-of-three in the series with the Yankees, Vermont (26-31) will begin a three-game series with the Brooklyn Cyclones at Centennial Field beginnig on Saturday at 6:05 pm.  The first 1,000 fans to Saturday's game will receive a voucher for a free bobblehead of Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter that they can claim at the Lake Monsters office in September when the bobbleheads arrive in Vermont.

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