SL1 Carolina Mudcats

Wood's First Complete Game Leads to MudCats Win

Published on June 7, 2009 under Southern League (SL1)
Carolina Mudcats News Release


Jacksonville, FL --- Travis Wood hurled his first career complete game, leading Carolina to a 2-0 victory over the Jacksonville Suns at the Baseball Grounds.

Wood (W, 5-3), who won his fifth straight decision, matched his career-high with 11 strikeouts and issued no walks in outdueling the Suns' Graham Taylor (L, 2-5). Wood and Taylor battled to a 0-0 tie until Zack Cozart connected on a 2-1 pitch from Taylor in the seventh inning for his fourth home run in five games. Todd Frazier added a run of insurance, belting his fourth homer of the year in the ninth inning.

But the story was the 107-pitch effort by Wood, who lowered his league-leading ERA from 1.38 to 1.22 in authoring his first career complete game in his 88th start. Wood retired the game's final 17 batters he faced after an infield single by Andy Jenkins in the fourth inning. The Suns (27-31) had only two other hits in the game, a single in the first by Ryan Klosterman and a third-inning double by Brad Davis.

Cozart and Frazier each had two of Carolina's five hits in the victory, as the Mudcats (32-25) closed to within one game of first place Huntsville. The Stars dropped their doubleheader opener on Sunday afternoon 9-6, and were tied with the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx in the eighth inning of game two at the time of this release. Carolina has 12 games remaining in the first half.

Jordan Smith starts the series' fourth game on Monday night at 7:05 PM ET.

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