Travs Finish Sweep Of Missions
Published on August 21, 2010 under Texas League (TL1)
Arkansas Travelers News Release
San Antonio, Texas - The Arkansas Travelers earned their second series sweep of the season with a 10-7 victory over the San Antonio Missions on Friday night at Wolff Stadium. First baseman Efren Navarro drove in four runs using two doubles and a groundout to lead the team on a night where all nine Travs starters had at least one base hit. Left fielder Roberto Lopez joined Navarro as the only Travs with two base hits and he added two runs scored and two RBI.
After the three-game sweep the Travs won the season series with the Missions taking seven of 12 games from the Padres double-A affiliate. Beginning a series with the Corpus Christi Hooks on Saturday night, the Travs hold a 24-29 second half record (50-73 overall). The Missions loss is their fourth in a row dropping them to 24-29 in the second half (59-64 overall).
The tone of the game was slow and without rhythm at the start as both pitching staffs struggled to command the strike zone. Travs pitchers walked ten batters and threw two wild pitches, while San Antonio hurlers issued six walks and Tyler Lumsden hit four batters in a five-inning start.
In suffering his 11th loss in 12 decisions, Lumsden (5-12) took over the Texas League lead in losses allowing six runs (five earned) on six base hits and two walks in five innings.
Ryan Brasier established a season high with six walks over four innings giving up four runs on six Missions hits including a three-run homer by Matt Clark (22). Jeremy Haynes (2-0) earned the win in relief of Brasier and struck out three over two innings while allowing one unearned run.
The clubs traded one run apiece in the second inning. Lopez tripled and scored on a groundout by Navarro, but the Missions answered scratching out a run on a pair of doubles from Craig Cooper and Andy Parrino.
The game turned in the Travs favor for good in the third inning mostly on extreme wildness from Lumsden. Four runs scored in the frame on just two base hits, including an RBI double from Navarro to provide the last two tallies. A leadoff hit batter led to the second of five double plays turned by the Missions. Abel Nieves drew a walk beginning a string of six consecutive batters reaching base that ultimately led to victory. Alexi Amarista doubled to left center moving Nieves to third then Charlton Jimerson was hit on the foot by a 1-2 pitch to load the bases. Jeremy Moore ran a full count and walked to force in the winning run, then Lumsden plunked Lopez to force home Amarista. Navarro then yanked his double down the first-base line driving in two more for a 5-1 lead.
Moore created an opportunity in the fifth inning with a two out single then a steal of second base. He moved to third when the throw from catcher Luis Martinez bounced to center and scored when Lopez punched an 0-2 pitch to right field for a 6-1 lead.
The Travs barely escaped with the lead after the bottom fifth inning as ten San Antonio batters came to the plate. Brasier left following a single, a walk, a wild pitch and Clark's three-run blast over the right-field wall. Haynes entered the game with a two-run lead and found quick trouble. A one-out walk to James Darnell preceded a hit-and-run infield single by Sawyer Carroll. Luis Martinez hit a rocket that bounced once in front of Moore in center. Darnell froze on the base hit and was almost forced at third base by Moore, but the throw pulled Rickey Alvarez off third base leaving the bases loaded.
San Antonio only got one run out of that chance though. Haynes got Parrino on strikes for the second out, then walked Quinton Berry to force in a run. Zawadzki ended the threat with a high bouncer to the mound leaving the Travs with a 6-5 lead.
Matt Buschmann relieved for the Missions in the sixth inning, and the Travs caught a break thanks to San Antonio's third error of the night. Darnell threw wildly to first base on a routine grounder giving Beau Brooks second base. A single by Andrew Romine moved Brooks to third base where he scored from on a balk.
Haynes then retired the Missions in order in the bottom of the sixth and the Travs added three more runs to the lead in the seventh off Buschmann on a book-rule double by Navarro and a two-run single from Alvarez for a 10-5 cushion.
They needed that extra support as Anthony Ortega allowed the first four batters of the seventh inning to reach base. Parrino doubled to knock in two runs, but Ortega settled in and retired three straight to hold the lead.
Jeremy Berg (1) earned the save with two shutout innings.
The game was played in 3:09 and the paid attendance was 4,296.
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