Vipers Bats Cold for Second Striaght Loss

Published on May 24, 2008 under Golden Baseball League (GBL)
Calgary Vipers News Release


The Calgary Vipers recorded only six hits for the second time in two nights and lost 6-3 to the Edmonton Cracker-Cats at Telus, Field in Edmonton, Alberta. Former Viper Phil Sobkow was terrific out of the Edmonton bullpen tossing three innings and giving up no runs on two hits while striking out five.

For the second night in a row Calgary was able to plate a run in the top of the first inning thanks to a Jorge Mejia single, a Nelson Castro groundout to move Mejia to second base, and a clutch two out opposite field line drive run batted in single off the bat of Drew Miller.

Edmonton wasted little time responding with a triple off the bat of Carlos Arroyo, an RBI single from Chris Van Rossum, and a RBI double by Joe Jiannetti to take a 2-1 lead.

Calgary tied the game up in the top of the second inning when with two outs Kevin Price walked, Colin Moro reached base on a error, Darryl Brinkley received a free pass, and Mejia also was walked for a run batted in.

Back and forth the game continued in the bottom half of the inning as Dave Detienne doubled and Jordan Lundberg smacked his first homerun of the season for the 4-2 advantage.

A run was added by the Cracker-Cats in the bottom of the fourth inning with a Jonathan Castro single and he then scored all the way from first base after Arroyo chopped one back to the mound and Jordy Alexander committed the throwing error launching the ball down the right field line.

The Vipers grabbed a run back in the in the top of the fifth with a leadoff walk to Nelson Castro then following a Miller single Castro moved to third base on a fly out from Max Soto and scored on a Patrick Arlis RBI sacrifice fly to cut the lead down to 5-3.

The Cracker-Cats regained their three run lead in the bottom of the seventh with a leadoff single by Arroyo who stole second base, moved to third on a Van Rossum groundout and scored on a Sean Kramer wild pitch.

Steve Smyth (1-0) picked up the victory throwing five innings and giving up four hits for two earned runs. Jorday Alexander (0-1) was saddled with the loss also going five innings and giving up eight hits for four earned runs while walking only one and striking out five. Pete Sikaras (1-0-1) recorded the save throwing a scoreless ninth inning with two strikeouts.

The Vipers go for their first victory of the 2008 season on Sunday at 1:35 PM (MDT) with Nate Melek getting the start and the series concludes Monday at 7:05 PM (MDT) with Dallas Mahan taking the mound for Calgary. All games can be heard live online at www.calgaryvipers.com.

The Vipers open their home schedule next Thursday night on "Theoren Fleury Night". The Stanley Cup champion and Olympic Gold Medalist will throw out the ceremonial first pitch and sign autographs throughout the game. And on Saturday, May 31 the Vipers will welcome Chris Reitsma to Foothills Stadium. The ex-major leaguer will also sign autographs and meet with fans.

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