Shorebirds no-hit – again! (with video)
For the second time in 10 days, Delmarva’s bats were silenced by the pitching staff of the Lake County Captains. This time it was a 3-0 whitewash in front of a large crowd drawn by the post-game fireworks. And for the home crowd, those would be the only fireworks seen from anyone connected with the Delmarva side.
Lake County hurlers Hector Rondon and Neil Wagner combined to mystify the Shorebird bats, Rondon (6-4) tossing six no-hit innings and Wagner the final three frames for his 10th save. Brandon Snyder’s popup was the final out and set off a celebration of Captains in the middle of the diamond.
And it just so happened I had my camera. Now it has a sort of limited video capability (only 320 x 240) so it’s not the best quality video ever shot, but it’s a bit of history. So here’s the video I uploaded of the final out and celebration. (It’s about a minute and 45 seconds all told, takes a bit to download.) I managed to keep off-color comments to a minimum.
I know this is the first no-hitter I’ve personally witnessed, and I’m certain it’s rare (if ever) that a particular team has no-hit another team twice in the same season, let alone in a span of less than 10 days. And I congratulate Rondon and Wagner on their fine effort. Fortunately we’re through with playing the Captains until the tail end of August so maybe their better pitchers will be called up by then.
Update 11:32 p.m. – Here’s a wrapup and game summary, along with the box score from the Minor League Baseball website.
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Ever since the retirement of Cal Ripkin SR., who for many years headed up the Baltimore Oriole farm teams, their farm stock hasn’t been the same.
what a great conclusion to the game… not the no-hit success of the captain’s pitcher, but the fireworks display with patriotic music…
we live in the greatest country of all time and the secret is the celebration of individual freedoms. God Bless Americans… we are the nation.
as for the shorebirds, the left fielder was instrumental in the captain’s offensive advantage… i counted four instances where he should have made a better play, which cost 3 runs.
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The left fielder would be David Cash, and if he makes either of the two plays out to him that inning the game is scoreless (all of their runs occurred with 2 outs.) Maybe we have another Harvey Haddix-style situation then.
Actually, I wasn’t all that impressed with the fireworks show, but I captured that too on my video in its entirety. I thought about uploading that too, but a 12 minute video would take forever to dump onto my server.