Since I didn’t see coverage on some other blog here’s a summary of yesterday morning’s Shorebird victory, salvaging the last of the three-game set against Lake County. This comes from the Shorebirds’ website:
Delmarva scored five runs in the bottom the fourth inning powered by Pedro Silveren’s three run double en route to a 6-3 victory over the Lake County Captains Wednesday afternoon at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium. Lake County’s starting pitcher Chris Archer walked the bases loaded with no one out and then gave up an RBI single to Delmarva catcher Brendan Monaghan before being lifted for reliever Gary Campfield. Campfield gave up the three run double to Silveren and an RBI single to Matt Tucker. The Captains scored a run in the sixth inning on an RBI single from Adam White scoring Roman Pena. White had two of the Captains five hits and the RBI. Delmarva’s Matt Angle hit his first homerun of the season to lead off the sixth inning. Lake County scored two in the ninth off Mick Mattaliano but Delmarva held on for the 6-3 triumph, salvaging the final game of the series less than 12 hours after Tuesday’s doubleheader sweep.
Luis Noel got the victory for the ‘Birds with his best outing of the season, allowing just one run on three hits in 6.1 innings. Noel picked up his first victory as Delmarva evened up their record at 10-10 as they prepare for a four-game road trip to West Virginia.
I’d have preferred to simply link it but the Shorebirds’ website doesn’t link to particular stories separately for some reason. Regardless, since I had to miss the game I appreciate the update. Good coverage of not just the Shorebirds but all of the minor leagues can also be found here; it’s a great resource for me. In fact, it’s where the recaps I link to in the next paragraph eminate from.
As for Tuesday’s doubleheader I did attend, it was REAL ugly as the Shorebirds were kicked around 7-1 and 11-1. When the highest total on the Shorebirds side of the board for both games is the error total (seven errors in game one and four in game two) you know it was a bad night.
What really made it a tough night was losing starting outfielder David Cash to injury, making it three players on the inactive list. Shortstop Pedro Florimon is out with a hand injury and catcher Jordan Wolf was beaned in the season’s third game and has not returned. While the replacement for Cash isn’t known to me at the moment, the Shorebirds activated infielder Pedro Silveren to take Florimon’s spot.
Wednesday night also marked the debut of three Shorebirds, two of whom are familiar to fans. Catcher Victor Castillo returned to the fold along with lefthanded pitcher Brett Bordes. The other player making his debut was pitcher Aaron Odom, who got the call from extended spring training. Bordes and Odom replace Joe Esposito, who was returned to extended spring, and Jeff Moore, who was promoted to Frederick.
As always, tonight I’ll have a new Shorebird of the Week, after I verify he’s still on the roster after a tumultuous few days.
http://mlntherawfeed.squarespace.com/minor-league-baseball/category/delmarva-shorebirds
I also found a site called The Raw Feed that provides news about the Shorebirds. I have the RSS feed to the above link in my Google Reader.