{"id":56305,"date":"2019-08-31T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsnsports.net\/?p=56305"},"modified":"2019-08-31T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T02:18:08","slug":"baseball-monsters-fall-4-1-at-tri-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsnsports.net\/blog\/article\/baseball-monsters-fall-4-1-at-tri-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Monsters Fall 4-1 at Tri-City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Vermont Lake Monsters<\/p>\n<p>TROY, NY &#8212; The Vermont Lake Monters opened their final New York-Penn League series of the season with a 4-1 loss to the Tri-City ValleyCats on Saturday night at Bruno Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>ValleyCats starter Jairo Lopez (2-2) retired 16 of the 17 batters he faced with eight strikeouts over the first five innings, allowing just a leadoff single in the fourth to Marty Bechina. Reliever Danny Cody retired each of the last five Lake Monsters, three by strikeout, to earn his first save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Tri-City scored a pair of runs in the third as Matthew Barefoot led off the inning with a single, stole second and scored on a Luis Guerrero RBI single. Guerrero then stole second before scoring on a Luis Santana two-out RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Perry made it 3-0 ValleyCats with his 12th home run of the season in the fourth off Vermont starter Michael Murray (3-1), who allowed three runs on seven hits with no walks and five strikeouts over five innings to take his first loss this season with the Lake Monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Vermont got a run in the seventh when Dustin Harris walked with one out, advanced to second on a wild pitch and to third on a Jordan Diaz single before scoring on a Kevin Richards bloop single to right. Derek West got out of further trouble by getting Kyle McCann to ground into an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play to keep lead at 3-1 for Tri-City.<\/p>\n<p>The ValleyCats added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth when Santana was hit by reliever Austin Briggs with one out, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Korey Lee two-out RBI groundball single to center.<\/p>\n<p>Vermont (33-41) and Tri-City (31-42) will meet in the second of the three-game series 5:00 pm on Sunday before the teams wrap up the 2019 season at 3:00 pm on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Vermont Lake Monsters TROY, NY &#8212; The Vermont Lake Monters opened their final New York-Penn League series of the season with a 4-1 loss to the Tri-City ValleyCats on Saturday night at Bruno Stadium. 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