FSL1 Charlotte Stone Crabs

Stone Crabs Head into off Day After 4-1 Win

Published on May 10, 2014 under Florida State League (FSL1)
Charlotte Stone Crabs News Release


BRADENTON, FL - When you play a team 20 times in one season, there's a certain level of familiarity that's attained. The Stone Crabs knew that the Marauders were a scrappy bunch that were never out of a game regardless of the situation or score. They learned this the hard way on Wednesday night. Marcus Jensen almost found this out on Friday night at Charlotte Sports Park. With an off day approaching, the Stone Crabs finally found room to breathe and followed Alex Colome's strong start with a 4-1 win to get back to the .500 mark.

Saturday night's starting pitching matchup featured a pair of flamethrowers in Colome and the Marauders Tyler Glasnow. Surprisingly, both pitchers were searching for the first wins of the season. For Colome, it was the perfect bounce back effort after a subpar appearance in two innings on Monday in his debut against the Mets on a rehab assignment.

In the first, the Stone Crabs established an early tone by running on Glasnow and his catcher Jacob Stallings. Andrew Toles led off with a single and got to third in a span of two pitches for the first stolen bases of the evening. A walk to Leonardo Reginatto brought up Tommy Coyle, who lifted a sacrifice fly into shallow right for Toles to score and make it 1-0. Reginatto followed the script and stole second base before another walk to Leonard put two more runners on base. Tyler Goeddel's flyball to deep center allowed Reginatto to tag to third with two outs. After Leonard stole second, Kes Carter sat on a 2-2 changeup and cracked it down the right field line for a 3-0 lead.

Glasnow wouldn't allow a run the rest of the night, although he made it close in the third with a couple of walks and fielder's choice groundouts by Coyle and Goeddel. They'd both steal their seventh bases of the year and got to second and third for Carter, but Glasnow got even with a groundout to escape the inning. During all this, Colome only allowed a single and a walk through four innings of pretty easy work.

Later in the seventh, Jake DePew led off with an infield single to third off Ryan Hafner. A sacrifice bunt by Toles got the catcher to second, and Reginatto placed an infield single in nearly the exact same spot. Marauders third baseman Eric Wood charged and threw on the run, but the ball sailed off the wall near the first base dugout and DePew came in to score for a 4-0 lead. The advantage was up to the Stone Crabs bullpen to protect for the third time in four nights.

Parker Markel was tested in the seventh after a couple of scoreless innings right after Colome. Wood grounded out to Coyle at second for the first out before Max Moroff sent a line drive into the gap in left center. Toles raced over and bounced a perfect throw to second to nab Moroff, who was trying to stretch it into a double, for the second out. Walker Gourley's double was true, and he soon came in to score the Marauders first run on a single by Stallings. Another single by Raul Fortunato brought the tying run to the plate, but Markel (1-0) whiffed center fielder Jeff Roy to preserve the 4-1 lead. Two more scoreless innings by Jose Molina kept the score intact, and the Stone Crabs head into Sunday's off day at 18-18 after splitting the first 12 meetings with their division rival.

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