York Wins Three in a Row
Published on June 26, 2009 under Atlantic League (AtL)
York Revolution News Release
The York Revolution nabbed their season-best third consecutive win, with another strong offensive showing in a 9-4 win over the Somerset Patriots, before 4,844 fans at Sovereign Bank Stadium on Friday night. York has now taken the first two from Somerset this weekend, and will aim to clinch a four-game series victory on Saturday night at 7 p.m.
York struck early against Patriots starter Jim Magrane, plating a second inning run on Matt Esquivel's infield hit. It was Esquivel's 100th RBI in a Revs uniform, and it drove in Matt Padgett who led off the inning with a triple, his franchise record eighth in two seasons.
Somerset tied the game in the third on Sean Smith's RBI groundout, but the Revs stormed right back in front with two more in the bottom of the third.
Kennard Jones led off with a double, and eventually scored the go-ahead run on a balk. Keoni DeRenne then blasted his second homerun of the year down the right field line, giving York a 3-1 lead.
The Revs then exploded for four in the fourth inning, chasing Magrane from the game. Matt Rogelstad picked up an RBI single, two more runs scored on an error, and Padgett capped the outburst with an RBI single to right.
Magrane (8-1) missed a chance at a Somerset record ninth consecutive win. He had won each of his previous eight starts in a row, but was touched for seven runs (four earned) on 10 hits in 3.2 innings.
Somerset got one back in the sixth, as Josh Pressley and Matt Hagen ripped back-to-back doubles to make it a 7-2 game, but York starter Dave Gassner came back to retire the next three to end the inning.
Gassner (3-6) becomes the Revs' first three-game winner. The lefty allowed just two runs, and only one earned in 6.2 innings of work. Brian Holliday struck out Hagen with the bases loaded to end the seventh, keeping Gassner's line at just one earned run.
The Revs meanwhile added two in the bottom of the sixth on a two-run double into the left field corner by Padgett, extending the lead to 9-2. Padgett went 4-for-5 with a triple, double, three RBI, and a run scored. It was his most hits ever in a Revs uniform.
Jason Belcher's two-run homer in the eighth drew Somerset closer, but Jason Olson came on to finish it off, retiring all four batters faced in his return to York.
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