York Pen Stout in 3-2 Victory
Published on June 12, 2012 under Atlantic League (AtL)
York Revolution News Release
The York Revolution stretched its bullpen to the limit, as York's relief corps recorded all 27 outs for the second consecutive game, outlasting Southern Maryland in a 3-2 victory at Sovereign Bank Stadium on Tuesday evening. The Revs will go for the series win to close out the homestand on Wednesday night.
After a rain delay of one hour and 45 minutes at the outset, and with the threat of probable rain later in the evening that would likely shorten the game, Revs manager Andy Etchebarren scratched scheduled starter Shawn Hill until Wednesday night's game, and called on reliever James Houser to make his first start since 2010.
Houser, a longtime starter in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, impressed in his outing, tossing 2.2 scoreless innings, and totaling 43 pitches, 29 of which were strikes.
The Revs grabbed a lead in the second inning as Southern Maryland starter Hunter Jones, a former teammate of Houser's at Triple-A New Orleans in 2010, walked the bases loaded with none out in his debut start. Danny Gonzalez drove in York's first run on a sacrifice fly to right-center, but Jones came back to record a double play, holding the Revs to only one in the second inning.
York did extend the lead to 3-0 with a pair of runs in the third. Scott Grimes rapped a double to left-center with one out, the 50th double of his Revs career, and took third on an error. Ramon Castro drove him in with a single to right-center, and later in the inning scored on Michael Hernandez' RBI double to left.
Jones (0-1) allowed only those three runs in five innings of work, and was charged with the loss.
A total of seven York pitchers, including Houser, made those runs count.
Ricardo Gomez (2-0) earned the win retiring all four batters faced in relief of Houser.
Normally the eighth inning man, Adam Thomas pitched a scoreless fifth inning, as the Revs again seemed to be planning for a rain-shortened affair.
The forecasted storms dissipated, however, leaving York to somehow find 27 outs from its bullpen for the second time in as many nights.
Kris Regas worked a perfect sixth inning, but allowed an RBI double to Mike Daniel with one out in the seventh breaking up the shutout. Dumas Garcia entered and stranded two runners, but not before Paco Figueroa stroked an RBI single to right cutting York's lead to 3-2.
Stephen Penney secured the first two outs in the eighth, but Brian Barton singled with one out, stole second, and took third on a groundout moving the tying run to third base. Closer R.J. Rodriguez came on and retired Christian Lopez on a fly out to center, however, to end the threat.
Rodriguez was greeted with a leadoff single by Daniel in the ninth, who stole second on the next pitch placing the tying run in scoring position with no outs, but Daniel was thrown out at third by York first baseman Chris Nowak, as he was attempting to advance on a fielder's choice for the first out. After a hit by pitch moved the tying run into scoring position again, Rodriguez retired Chin-Lung Hu, who had previously reached base seven of eight times in the series, on a game-ending 4-6-3 double play to secure the wild win. Rodriguez finished the game as the last available relief pitcher on the York lineup card, earning his eighth save of the year.
Notes: Grimes (1-for-4) now has a nine-game hitting streak. Brandon Haveman (1-for-4) has hit safely in 18 of 20 games with York including each of the last five. The Revs are now 4-4 through the first eight games of the homestand, and will go for a winning record on the nine-gamer, as well as a series win in Wednesday's finale. Hill (1-0, 3.04) will face Southern Maryland's Dan Reichert (3-1, 2.61) at 6:30 p.m. It wraps up the "School's Out Blow Out" series, as students get tickets for just $5. The deal is available in-person at the Apple Chevrolet Ticket Office and online at YorkRevolution.com, by entering the promo code "student12" before checking out.
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