AtL Lancaster Stormers

Sugar Land Finds The Wright Stuff

Published on August 16, 2015 under Atlantic League (AtL)
Lancaster Stormers News Release


On Saturday night, the Lancaster Barnstormers faced red hot lefty Roy Merritt and put 10 runs on the board.

Less than 24 hours later, against right-hander Matt Wright, who had dropped five straight starts, Lancaster never got beyond the starting blocks.

Wright (6-7) combined with three relievers on a five-hit shutout as the Barnstormers fell, 2-0, in the finale of a four-game series at Clipper Magazine Stadium.

Lancaster managed three singles off Wright in six innings. The native Texan, a Barnstormer in 2011, did not walk a batter while striking out eight.

Two of the three singles came in the fifth inning with Brian Cavazos-Galvez lined a leadoff base hit into left, and Derrick Pyles add a one-out hit into right. Yusuke Kajimoto grounded into a force play, and Juan Apodaca struck out to end the threat.

The Barnstormers fared little better against the Skeeters bullpen. Andrew Johnston retired the heart of the order in 1-2-3 fashion in the seventh. Lancaster managed a Kajimoto single of Dan Runzler in the eighth, and Anderson Feliz reached Derrick Loop for a leadoff single in the ninth.

Loop then struck out Kent Matthes and got Mike McDade to ground into a 6-4-3 double play to douse any remaining hopes for Lancaster in the game.

Sugar Land put a run on the board off Bryan Morgado (4-6) in the first inning. Jeff Dominguez led off with a pop fly to right which Pyles lost against the high sky for a double. One out later, Delwyn Young spun a single inside the first base bag to knock Dominguez home for the early lead.

The Skeeters run in the fifth was far more conventional. Dominguez led off with a single to left and moved to second on the third of Young's four hits. Chris Wallace took a double to the right field corner to produce the second tally.

Lancaster heads to Camden on Monday for the start of a four-game series. The Barnstormers are sending right-hander Madison Boer (0-1) to the mound against right-hander Sean Gleason (5-11). Fans may tune into 1390-AM, WLAN; rumba1390.com or the I Heart Radio cell phone app, beginning at 6:45.

NOTES: Anderson Feliz reached on a single down the third base line in the bottom of the ninth to extend his hitting streak to 11 games...That ties David Cooper for the season high by a Barnstormer...Morgado's loss was his first in his last five starts...He has a 4-3 record with a 2.09 ERA in a starting role...All three of his losses have come in games where the Barnstormers have been shut out...The game was the 12th shutout tossed against the Barnstormers on the season.

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