CarL1 Wilmington Blue Rocks

Wilmington Wins Suspended Game, Winston Takes Night Cap

Published on June 18, 2010 under Carolina League (CarL1)
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Wilmington, DE - The Wilmington Blue Rocks split an impromptu doubleheader with the Winston-Salem Dash on Friday night at Frawley Stadium. Wilmington took the opener, 7-1, and fell in the nightcap, 10-4.

The opener on Friday was not your typical contest. In a game that began in Winston-Salem, NC on Sunday, and finished five days later in Wilmington, DE, the Blue Rocks finished what they started. Wilmington beat the Dash, 7-1 on Friday afternoon, in a contest that had been suspended by rain after the third inning on June 13.

Earlier in the week in Winston-Salem, Wilmington had scored four runs in the first inning and added two more in the third. Rey Navarro came through with the biggest blow as his three-run homer with two outs in the first gave the Blue Rocks a 4-0 lead.

The Rocks opened the game with a bloop-single to left by Adrian Ortiz. After Nick Francis struck out, Eric Hosmer drew a walk and Jamie Romak lined a single to left. That loaded the bases for Jamar Walton, who quickly fell behind in the count to Winston-Salem starter Charlie Leesman 0-2. But Walton battled back to a full count, and then lofted a sacrifice fly to deep center field, which plated Ortiz and moved Hosmer to third.

Navarro followed with a no doubt about it homer over the left-field fence. It was the shortstop's third home run since joining the Blue Rocks via trade on May 2.

Wilmington put together another threat in the third. The Rocks' first three batters of the inning reached, but a double play off the bat of Navarro seemed to stall their momentum. Adam Frost took care of that when he drilled a two-run double.

The Rocks jumped on the board immediately as play resumed on Friday. A two-out walk to Francis set up Hosmer's RBI triple off the wall in dead-center field. The run-scoring hit gave Wilmington a 7-0 advantage.

Meanwhile, Chris Dwyer was busy dominating. The left-hander, who started the game on Sunday in Winston-Salem, was back on the hill on Friday, and had the Dash grasping for answers. Dwyer (4-3) tossed only the second nine-inning complete game of the season in the Carolina League, allowing one run on 10 hits, and fanning 13.

The only run Dwyer surrendered came courtesy of a passed ball on catcher Travis Jones in the fifth. He retired 11 in a row at one point, and set down 14 of the final 15 batters he faced.

In the nightcap, Wilmington got off to a fast start, as Romak's majestic two-run homer to left gave the Rocks a 2-0 lead in the first. The Blue Crew made it a three-run lead one inning later on a Salvador Perez sacrifice fly to right.

But that would be the high water mark for Wilmington, as the Dash scored 10 of the game's final 11 runs on their way to a convincing victory.

Blue Rocks starter Tim Melville took the loss. Melville (2-7) surrendered six runs on eight hits in five frames of work. The right-hander was victimized for three long balls.

Brandon Short got Winston on the board in the third with a solo shot to left-center. Four batters later Logan Johnson left the yard with a three-run shot that gave the Dash a 4-3 advantage. After Wilmington tied the game in the home half of the third, Winston-Salem took the lead for good on Ozzie Lewis' two-run blast in the top of the fifth.

The Dash added four runs off of reliever James Thompson in the sixth. Johnson had the big blow with a bases-clearing double to the left-center field gap. Johnson finished the game 3-for-3 with six runs batted in.

Wilmington hosts the Dash again on Saturday night at 6:05 p.m. Reliever Buddy Baumann (2-0, 2.27) makes his first start of the season for the Rocks. He will be opposed by left-hander Charlie Leesman (7-2, 4.75) for Winston-Salem.

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