NYPL Vermont Lake Monsters

Vermont beaten out by one run

July 19, 2004 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Vermont Lake Monsters News Release


Burlington, VT- Roughly 40 men spent 30 minutes digging into the Centennial Field infield after Monday night's game looking for a remote control to win a television set. They also could have been looking for the missing Expos offense.

Vermont was held to only five hits, three coming in the second inning when they scored their two runs, in a 3-2 loss to the Batavia Muckdogs in New York-Penn League action.

The Expos are 10-8 and have hit .261 with 4.78 runs per game in 18 road games this season, but are now 5-8 and hitting just .220 with a full run less average at Centennial Field in 13 home games.

Batavia took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI triple from Nicholas Shimer, but that was all the offense that the Muckdogs would get off Expos starter Jon Felfoldi, who allowed one run on two hits with four walks and seven strikeouts over 5.1 innings.

The Expos got their two runs in the second inning on a Devin Ivany RBI single that scored Steve Mortimer with an unearned run and an RBI single from Maurice Cobb to score Ivany. Doug Vroman followed with a double down the leftfield line, but Vermont's only other hits in the game were leadoff singles from Edgardo Baez in the sixth and Mortimer in the ninth inning.

The Expos advantage stayed at one until Jason Crosland hit a leadoff home run, his fifth of the season, in the seventh inning off Expos reliever Thomas Wilson to tie the gmae 2-2. Zach Norman followed with a single, moved to third on a pair of groundouts and scored on the eventual game-winning run on a wild pitch from Wilson (0-1).

Jacob Barrack (1-1) allowed just one hit with no walks and six strikeouts over 4.0 innings of relief to pick up his first win of the season. Barrack came into the game to start the bottom of the fifth in relief of starter Jason Martinez, who allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits over the first four innings. Nelson Santander pitched the ninth inning to pick up his second save for Batavia (13-17).

Ben Cox pitched two scoreless innings of relief for Vermont (15-16), which once again failed to get over the .500 mark with the loss. The Expos, losers of two of the three games in the series with Batavia, begin a three-game series at Centennial Field against the Brooklyn Cyclones on Tuesday night.

Along with the Cyclones, the New York-Penn League affiliate of the New York Mets, the Dale Earnhardt Sr. #3 Monte Carlo show car will be on display in the concourse area before and during Tuesday night's game. The race car in one driven by the late Earnhardt Sr. during his long NASCAR career.

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