Walker Shuts Down T-Bones
Published on July 31, 2012 under American Association (AA)
Winnipeg Goldeyes News Release
A great start by Ace Walker and a 14-hit attack by the offence gave the Winnipeg Goldeyes their second straight win on Tuesday night.
Walker went 8.1 innings allowing only one run and six scattered hits as the Goldeyes went into Kansas City and beat the T-Bones 4-1.
With the victory, the Fish won their second straight game, improved to 40-28 on the season and moved to within 3 1/2 games of the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks in the race for first in the American Association's North Division.
The RedHawks lost 4-0 to St. Paul as the Saints remained two games behind Winnipeg in the Wild Card race. Kansas City is three back of Winnipeg.
"Ace had 128 pitches tonight," said Goldeyes pitching coach Bill Pulsipher. "He only had 90 pitches in his last two starts, but he got an extra day off this time so Rick and I decided he was well-rested and ready to go and we wanted to stretch him out. It was kind of one of those things when you're best guy is out there, he's our best pitcher, we wanted to ride him tonight.
"It was also nice to see Craig (James) come out in the ninth and see a lightning coming out of his arm."
Winnipeg opened the scoring in the fifth as Amos Ramon hit a leadoff solo home run. Ramon has now hit three home runs this season, all three on the road.
The Goldeyes added two in the sixth as Yurendell de Caster doubled, Luis Alen singled sending de Caster to third and de Caster scored a fielder's choice ground ball off the bat of Kyle Day. Then after a single by Josh Mazzola, Day scored on a single by Ramon.
In the eighth, the Goldeyes made it 4-1 as Alen singled, went to second on an error, went to third on a ground out by Day and scored on a single by Mazzola.
Price Kendall and Luis Alen, each had three hits on the night while Josh Mazzola and Amos Ramon had two hits each. The only Goldeyes starter not to get a hit was Jose Duran.
"This was Goldeyes baseball tonight," said Pulsipher. "We came off that bus raring to go tonight. This was a big game and we played like it was a big game. That was real Goldeyes baseball - pitching, defense and timely hitting."
Walker (6-3, 3.01 ERA) was brilliant, striking out seven and walking only three. Craig James picked up his second save. Shawn Garceau (6-3, 2.36) suffered the loss.
The same two teams meet Wednesday at 7 in Kansas City. The game can be heard live on TSN 1290 with Paul Edmonds calling the play-by-play.
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