Winston-Salem Dash Game Notes
May 10, 2010 - Carolina League (CarL1)
Winston-Salem Dash News Release
Back to Actual Baseball: One day after the Dash and Red Sox combined for 33 hits and 29 runs, the teams returned to a realm of offensive normalcy on Sunday afternoon. The end result stayed the same, as Winston-Salem edged Salem 4-3 on a cool, sunny afternoon. Jon Gilmore picked up two RBI base hits, including one in the fifth inning to snap a 2-2 tie. With the victory, the Dash won the three-game series and moved to within a game of Salem for first place in the Southern division. Winston also improved to 3-4 in one-run games after having lost three in the previous week.
Short-Stopped: After 26 consecutive games with at least one hit, Brandon Short was held without one on Sunday afternoon. Short went 0 for 4, ending a hitting streak that tied for the fifth longest in Carolina League history. It was the second longest in Winston-Salem baseball history, behind only Thomas (Reid) Nichols' 30-game streak for the Winston-Salem Red Sox in 1979. Short's streak was the longest in professional baseball this season. Over his 26-game hitting streak, he hit .403 with ten doubles, one triple, three home runs, 25 RBI, and 20 runs scored. He averaged nearly two hits per game during the streak (50 hits in 26 games). Short picked up at least one hit by the fifth inning in 23 of the 26 games of his streak, including the last 17 before Sunday. Sunday's game was just this second this season that Short has gone hitless. The other was on 4/10 when he went 0 for 4 at Kinston.
Player of the Week: While his hitting streak is over, Brandon Short can take solace in being named the Carolina League's "Player of the Week." Short hit .412 with three doubles, two home runs, six RBI, and nine runs scored during the week. He became the second straight Dash player to win the award. OF Justin Greene won the honor last week.
Sauer Patch Kid: Dash Starter Stephen Sauer followed up his worst outing of the season with one of his best on Sunday. The Las Vegas native allowed five hits and just one earned run over six innings en route to his second victory of the season. He improved to 2-1 and lowered his ERA to 5.29.
Remy Zero: Dan Remenowsky truly "saved" yesterday's game for the Dash. The soft-tossing righty entered the contest with the Dash ahead 4-3 and the bases loaded with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. He struck out Alex Hassan looking to get out of the inning, pitched a scoreless eighth, then navigated a tricky ninth inning. After allowing a leadoff double, Remenowsky retired the next three batters to collect his third save of the season and preserve the Winston-Salem win.
Big Inning Breakdowns: On Sunday, the Dash momentarily stemmed its recent trend of allowing big innings to the opposition. The Red Sox scored their three runs in three innings yesterday, but teams had been jumping on Winston-Salem for game-changing innings over previous week. In the last seven games before Sunday, Dash opponents had nine innings in which they scored three or more runs in one inning. Of the 45 runs Winston had allowed in its previous seven games, 37 of them were concentrated into those nine innings.
Smoked Hickory: Winston-Salem leads both the Carolina League and the rest of professional affiliated baseball in batting average and runs scored this season. The Dash's .317 clip is the best batting average of any professional affiliated team. Only four other teams have a batting average over .290 and no other team is higher than .296. The Dash's average is a mind-boggling 45 points higher than any other Carolina League team (Salem is hitting .272). Winston has five players in the top ten in the league in batting average: Brandon Short (2nd, .376), Ozzie Lewis (3rd, .352), Jon Gilmore (4th, .352), Justin Greene (5th, .347), and Drew Garcia (7th, .336). The team's 199 runs are the most of any team, majors or minors.
Today's Opposing Starter: RHP Marcos Frias (1-1, 4.73) makes his seventh start of the season and his second against the Dash. He started on 4/14, the second game at BB&T Ballpark. Frias allowed just two hits and did not allow a run over the first four innings, but ran into trouble in the fifth when he allowed three runs on five hits. He went 4.2 IP, allowing 7 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, & 2 K. At 21, the Dominican right hander is the youngest pitcher on Potomac and the second-youngest player on the P-Nats. This is his fourth year of professional ball. He spent his first year with a full-season team in 2009 with Hagerstown, where he pitched in 25 games (23 starts) and went 9-5 with a 2.91 ERA. He struck out 112 batters in 126.2 innings. Frias throws a hard sinker and a fastball that reaches the low-90s.
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