Tornadoes Game Notes
Published on August 31, 2010 under Canadian American League (Can-Am)
Worcester Tornadoes News Release
TONIGHT'S MATCHUP:
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 -7:05 PM
Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field, Worcester, MA
Sussex Skyhawks (34-50, 6th place) at Worcester Tornadoes (38-48, 5th place)
#14 Trevor Marcotte (0-2, 8.47 ERA) vs. #23 John Kelly (8-4, 3.98 ERA)
Rest of Series Probable Pitching Matchups:
9/1 7:05 PM - #10 Mike Vicaro (6-3, 4.23 ERA) vs. #21 Justin Knoff (3-3, 4.01 ERA)
9/2* 7:05 PM - #6 Tim Stringer (3-6, 5.79 ERA) vs. #32 Chris Farley (6-7, 5.10 ERA)
* = Last home game of 2010 regular season
Game Notes: Worcester enters its last regular season home series of 2010 a game behind the New Jersey Jackals for the fourth and final playoff spot, facing the 6th place Sussex Skyhawks who are in the midst of an eight game losing streak. John Kelly will try to extend Worcester's two-game winning streak and pick up his team leading ninth win of the season tonight. He has not won since August 5th at Pittsfield and hasn't won a home start since July 20th against New Jersey. Kelly's best stretch of the season came form July 8th to August 5th, where he went 5-0 in six starts with a 1.64 ERA. His best start came back on June 11th against Pittsfield, picking up his first win of the season by throwing six and two-thirds innings and surrendering just one earned run while striking out eight. He has faced Sussex three times this season, going 1-1 with a 3.21 ERA. His win came on July 26th, picking up the win at Sussex with five innings of work and one earned run allowed. On the other side, the probable starter for the Skyhawks is Trevor Marcotte. This will be his fourth start and fifth appearance of the season. The best of his three starts came against Worcester, throwing seven solid innings and scattering 10 hits while giving up five run (four earned). On the season, Marcotte has given up 29 hits in 17 innings pitched, striking out 10 while walking seven.
Sunday Night: Worcester kept its playoff hopes alive, getting a two-run walk-off homerun in the bottom of the ninth from Can-AM player of the week Mark Minicozzi to defeat the Brockton Rox 5-3. John Slusarz got the win, throwing three shutout innings of relief, striking out three and giving up three hits. Worcester got a 1-0 lead after two innings when Rick Asadoorian, starting as a hitter for the first time since June 29th, scored on an Alex Trezza RBI ground out. Brockton would then take a 3-1 lead with a run in the third thanks to a Shawn Williams RBI single and two runs in the fourth from RBI singles by Mike Conroy and Chris Valencia. Alex Trezza would then knock in his second run of the game, getting an RBI double in the bottom of the fourth to score Lester Contreras and put the Tornadoes down by just one. In the bottom of the fifth, Nick Salotti's solo homer would tie the game at three and the teams would stay deadlocked until the bottom of the ninth. After a Ryan Crespi flyout and Boomer Blanchard single, Minicozzi hit his walk-off homer off of Jimmer Kennedy. Matt McDonald, who got the start for the Tornadoes, got a quality start with six innings pitched and three earned runs allowed, striking out six Rox while walking two.
Tornadoes:
Offense: Mark Minicozzi leads the team with a .310 average and 52 RBI's. Danny Santiesteban leads the team with 14 homeruns and a .515 slugging percentage. Lester Contreras, three games into his late season addition to the Tornadoes, is 5-for-10 two doubles and a run scored in his first three games. Nick Salotti leads the team with 21 doubles, followed closely by Alex Trezza.
Pitching: Shawn Gilblair and Rick Asadoorian are the only two pitchers with sub-3.00 ERA's, with 2.12 and 2.18 respectively. Opponents are hitting a team low .209 against reliever Albert Ayala. John Kelly has the team lead in strikeouts with 92 and wins with eight. Opponents are hitting .230 off the righty and have an on base percentage of .301. Gilblair has the team low in on base percentage against with .280.
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