September 3 Game Recap
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September 3, 2007
Contact: Jon Shestakofsky (978-805-5117 / jshesta@lowellspinners.com)
Lowell Spun Out in Vermont
Playoff hopes dealt a blow with four games remaining
BURLINGTON, VT – Four
Spinners enjoyed multi-hit nights and Lowell banged out five runs on 11 hits, but
it wasn’t enough as the Spinners made four errors and fell to the Vermont Lake
Monsters on Labor Day, 9-5.
With the loss, the
Spinners remain two games behind the Oneonta Tigers, who lost in extra-innings,
with four games to play.
Vermont (35-36) busted the game open in the bottom of
the fifth when Aaron Suess hit a bases-loaded single to right off Spinners reliever
Ryne Miller, scoring two before an errant throw to third base at the conclusion
of the play allowed a third run to cross the plate.
The Lake Monsters tacked on two more in the sixth
inning but the Spinners picked up two of their own in the eighth when three
walks loaded the bases for a two-run single to left-field by Oscar Tejeda.
Spinners spot-starter Bajoczky (0-2) allowed nine hits
and seven runs, six earned, in three and one-third innings with one strikeout
and no walks.
Miller struck out four and allowed two runs, one
earned, on four hits in two and two-thirds innings of relief in his Spinners
debut before giving way to Adam Mills, who closed out the game with two innings
of scoreless relief.
Fernandez-Oliva paced the Spinners offense with a
3-for-4 night on his birthday, while Tejeda, Cabreja, and Vazquez each
collected a pair of hits. Che-Hsuan Lin and David Marks pitched in with one hit
apiece. Despite
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