Tigers Win 6-0 Behind First Shutout of Season
June 27, 2011 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Norwich Sea Unicorns News Release
TROY, NY - The Connecticut Tigers used their second highest run total of the year and first shutout of 2011 to cruise to a 6-0 victory over the Tri-City ValleyCats on Monday night at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium.
Tigers' starter Tyler Barrett, who was able to go just two innings in his season debut, threw five scoreless innings tonight, surrendering only two hits, with no walks issued and three strikeouts to earn the victory.
Nick Avila, Drew Gagnier, Pedro Perez and Clemente Mendoza combined to finish the job with one scoreless inning each.
The offense got rolling early with two runs in both the second and third inning. Patrick Leyland, the son of Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland, made his season debut with Connecticut count in a big way. He slapped an RBI base hit in his first at-bat of the year and added an RBI single in the ninth.
Samir Rijo, Matt Perry and Jeff Holm all had two hits tonight as well to go along with Leyland. The Tigers only game with more runs scored this year was in their first contest of the season, a 7-2 win at Lowell.
After shutting down the Tigers' offense with five shutout innings in his season debut last week, ValleyCats' starter Nick Tropeano suffered the loss this evening after giving up four runs, three earned, on six hits in only three innings of work.
The Tigers will go for the sweep of the three-game series against the Tri-City ValleyCats in Troy tomorrow night. First pitch is set for 7:00 PM.
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