AtL Lancaster Stormers

'Stormers launch five to down York

Published on August 4, 2011 under Atlantic League (AtL)
Lancaster Stormers News Release


The Lancaster Barnstormers put together a memorable streak at Sovereign Bank Stadium Wednesday evening. They homered in five consecutive innings.

Still, it took some fancy relief work and some late insurance runs to down the York Revolution, 11-7, in the opener of a three-game series.

Lancaster now stands one-half game behind York in the second half Freedom Division standings.

Gilberto Mejia blasted a double near the top of the 37-foot high wall in left field to open the night, and Adam Calderone followed with a blast onto the right field picnic deck for the early 2-0 lead. One inning later, Calderone reached on a long triple to right center before Tommy Everidge lofted a fly ball over the "Arch Nemesis" for a 4-1 Lancaster lead.

Matt Tupman took his turn in the third, taking Jesus Sanchez (1-2) out of the yard to right center with Wayne Lydon aboard as the Barnstormers went up, 6-1. Everidge crushed his second homer of the night to left field leading off the fourth against Kevin Mannix, and Wayne Lydon finished the barrage with a two-run charge to right in the fifth inning as the Barnstormers built a 9-1 cushion for Yunior Novoa (3-2).

Working with the huge lead, Novoa focused on throwing strikes. By and large the strategy worked, despite a two-out RBI single by Octavio Martinez in the bottom of the fifth.

In the sixth, however, Novoa was chased from the game on consecutive singles by Ramon Castro, Jose Herrera and James Shanks. Chris Nowak stroked a pitch from Justin Segal into left for another single, cutting the Lancaster lead to 9-3. Vince Harrison singled off third baseman Aaron Herr's glove, adding one more run and keeping the bases loaded with nobody out. Segal was able to settle down and get a double play out of Liu Rodriguez as Shanks crossed the plate. Martinez struck out to end the inning.

Herrera blasted a two-run homer to the left of the batters eye in the seventh, and Lancaster's lead was whittled back to 9-7.

Mejia took over from there. The Lancaster second baseman drilled a triple to right center opening the eighth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Calderone. He singled home Lancaster's final run with two outs in the ninth.

Meanwhile, Jon Huber worked a perfect eighth with two strikeouts, and Jonah Bayliss survived a one-out walk in the ninth to seal the win.

The two clubs meet again at Sovereign Bank Stadium Thursday evening at 6:30. J.D. Durbin (5-2) will get the start for the Barnstormers against newcomer Dumas Garcia. The game will be aired on Fox Sports Radio, 1490, WLPA and streamed live on sportsjuice.com.

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