Thursday, September 10, 2009

Claws win game 1 behind Way

Travis d'Arnaud congratulates Santo Hernandez as BlueClaws win in Kannapolis, 4-2.



Matthew Way threw 7 strong innings in Kannapolis Wednesday night, and the Lakewood BlueClaws won game one of their opening round series, 4-2 over the Intimidators. Way allowed a run on 3 hits in the 1st inning, but settled down and put up 6 scoreless frames after that, giving up just 7 hits in all, 1 walks, and struck out 7 to give Lakewood a 1-0 advantage in the best of 2 series. Games 2 and 3 (if necessary) will be here in Lakewood Friday and Saturday nights.

Anthony Gose snapped a 1 for 25 slump that ended his regular season with 3 hits, Travis d'Arnaud, Brian Gump and Travis Mattair had 2 hits each, and D'Arby Myers had 2 walks, and scored twice as everyone in the line-up reached base at some point in the game.

Lakewood will look for the clincher on Friday when they send Trevor May to the mound.

The news was not so good in Akron, as the Aeros pounded 12 hits en route to a 9-4 win over Reading in game 1 of their series. Akron pitcher Josh Tomlin allowed Reading 2 runs on 3 hits in the 2nd inning, but then proceeded to retire 17 R-Phils in a row while his offense rocked Mike Stutes for 6 runs (only 3 earned) on 9 hits in just 5.1 innings. Reading looks to even the best of 5 series tonight in game 2, and will send Yohan Flande to the hill.

In Tacoma, Adrian Cardenas had a single, 2 walks, and scored 2 runs to help the Sacramento River Cats to an 8-2 win over the Rainiers to grab a 1-0 lead in their best of 5 series. The River Cats, 2-time defending PCL champions, look to grab a stranglehold on the series in game 2 tonight, before returning home for the remainder of the games.

In Kansas City last night, Robinson Tejeda threw 6 shut out innings against the Detroit Tigers and recorded his 2nd win of the season. Tejeda allowed just 3 hits and 2 walks, striking out 8, and lowering his ERA to 3.21. Robinson has now thrown 19 consecutive scoreless innings for the Royals, will start again next week in Detroit and is being considered for a spot in the Kansas City rotation for 2010!

Tuesday night in Denver, Matt Maloney made his best start of his young major league career, going 5 innings against the Rockies and yielding just 1 run on 4 hits, NO walks, 2 Ks. It was the 5th start this year for Matt, and the first time he did not allow 2 home runs in an outing. He did absorb a loss, as Colorado topped Cincinnati, 3-1.

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