Courtesy Vermont Lake Monsters<\/p>\n
BURLINGTON — Kevin Richards accounted for all three runs with a bases loaded triple in the seventh inning, while Tyler Baum, Richard Morban and Jose Mora combined on a four-hit shutout as the Vermont Lake Monsters opened a three-game New York-Penn League series against the Lowell Spinners with a 3-0 win Thursday night at historic Centennial Field.<\/p>\n
Logan Davidson got the seventh-inning rally started with a one-out double off Spinners reliever Kelvin Sanchez before Vermont loaded the bases with a pair of back-to-back two-out walks. Richards then greeted reliever Dylan Spacke with a line drive triple down the right-field line to clear the bases.<\/p>\n
The Spinners loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth on three straight walks, the first two from Morban and the third from Mora, but a Mora strikeout of Joe Davis ended the inning. In the ninth after allowing a Nick Decker leadoff double, Mora struckout the side to notch his 11th save (second in NYPL this season and tied for fifth all-time by Vermont pitcher).<\/p>\n
Lake Monsters starter Tyler Baum retired first seven batters he faced (three strikeouts) before a one-out walk in the third, but then induced an inning-ending double play to end inning and his start. Morban took over in the fourth and tossed 4 2\/3 scoreless innings with three hits, three walks and three strikeouts.<\/p>\n
It was the third shutout victory of the season for Vermont and its first since a 2-0 win over Batavia on July 13th. The Lake Monsters had entered the night having allowed 29 runs over their last five games and 66 in the last 10.<\/p>\n
Game was scoreless over the first 6 1\/2 innings with the best scoring opportunity coming in the bottom of the first as the Lake Monsters loaded the bases to open the inning with a walk, infield single and walk, but Lowell starter Ryan Zeferjahn got out the jam with a strikeout, infield-fly rule pop up and strikeout.<\/p>\n
Zeferjahn, Boston\u2019s third-round draft pick out of Kansas, allowed three hits with two walks and three strikeouts over the first three innings, while Sanchez (2-4) was charged with three runs on two hits with four walks and five strikeouts over 3 2\/3 innings to take the loss for Lowell (35-30).<\/p>\n
Vermont (30-35), which trails the Spinners by five games in the Stedler Division with 11 games remaining in the regular-season, will host Lowell in the second of the three-game series 7:05 pm on Friday with a special appearance by the ZOOperstars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Courtesy Vermont Lake Monsters BURLINGTON — Kevin Richards accounted for all three runs with a bases loaded triple in the seventh inning, while Tyler Baum, Richard Morban and Jose Mora combined on a four-hit shutout as the Vermont Lake Monsters opened a three-game New York-Penn League series against the Lowell Spinners with a 3-0 win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[280,279],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n