Scoreboard for May 16, 2007

Rochester at Richmond (Postponed)

Record 19-13

Wednesday night's International League game between Rochester and Richmond was postponed due to rain at The Diamond.

The game will be made up Thursday as part of a doubleheader, starting at 6 p.m. ET.

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Harrisburg at New Britain (Postponed - Rain)

Record: 17-14

The Harrisburg Senators and the New Britain Rock Cats were rained out Wednesday night in Connecticut.

The two teams will play a doubleheader on Thursday, May 17.

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Island Night Parade
Clearwater 1 at Fort Myers 13

Record 14 - 25

W: Z. Ward (1-5, 2.70); L: D. Brauer (4-3, 6.00)
HR: None.

E: Portes (4, fielding).

The Miracle lost Kyle Waldrop and Frank Mata to promotions, but somehow managed to find their bats in the deal.

Or...at least, they hit well following a two hour rain delay Wednesday night at Hammond stadium.

Steve Tolleson and Whit Robbins both took walks in the first inning with one out. Robbins was hit by a pitch, but with the Miracle the goal is to get on base any way you can.

Juan Portes struck out swinging while Tolleson and Robbins orchastrated a double steal. Then Dwayne White took a walk before Eddie Ovalle trippled to put the Miracle up 3-0 and behind a strong outing by Zack Ward, it would be all the Miracle needed.

All in all the Miracle walked 8 times, making me wonder if they didn't have a team meeting on plate discipline. During the rain delay, Jim "Slice" Dwyer was down in the batting cages working with the guys. Perhaps the extra practice time helped.

Or perhaps it was all the sugar from the candy that was tossed out during the Island Night Parade. Whatever the case, the Miracle errupted in the fourth inning for 8 runs, an inning that started out much like the first, with Luis Ugueto getting called out on strikes, and Steve Tolleson taking a walk.

Clearwater's Daniel Brauer was charged with 9 runs (all earned) on five hits and seven walks in 3.1 innings before being replaced by William Savage, who allowed 4 runs on 3 hits and an error.

Ugueto would single in the sixth, but that pretty much ended off the Miracle offensive involvement in the game.

I'd been asked why I though Ward was not performing in the Twins organization the same way he did in the Reds, and my answer was the Ward was a pitcher that used his fielders quite a bit. This was evident last night, as Ward only struck out 2 in five innings worth of work.

Erik Lis was given the night off and served as third base coach. Mark Betsill was insterted into the game late at first to relieve Whit Robbins, and Toby Gardenhire put in a brief stint behind the plate as catcher.

Josh Hill allowed the only Threshers run on the night, an unearned run that started with Welinson Baez reached on a fielding error by Juan Portes. Orlando Guevara would cross the plate when Fidel Hernandez singled to center.

The Miracle head out on the road now for a brief three game road trip to Tampa. Jay Rainville (2-4, 3.81) gets the start on the mound for the Miracle.

Notes: Waldrop and Mata replace former Miracle pitchers Nick Blackburn and JP Martinez on the Rock Cats roster. Blackburn and Martinez were promoted to AAA Rochester. Matt Fox was activated from the Extended Spring Training roster and sent to the Beloit Snappers. No announcements were made regarding replacement players for the Miracle.

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Beloit 1 at Peoria 0

Record 22-14

W: J. Manship (4-1, 1.60); L: C. Platt (2-1, 2.53); SV: R. Delaney (11)
HR: BEL: J. Woodard (3).

E: Ortiz (6, throw).

From peoriachiefs.com: The Peoria Chiefs dropped a 1-0 decision to visiting Beloit on Wednesday night at O’Brien Field. The loss drops the Chiefs to 20-17 on the season and 2.5 games back of now first place Beloit and Clinton who was idle tonight.

Chiefs starter Chris Shaver worked around one out doubles in each of the first two innings by Danny Valencia and Chris Parmelee to keep the game scoreless after an inning and a half.

The Chiefs threatened in the bottom of the first inning after Jim Adduci singled to right followed by an error by the shortstop Yancarlos Ortiz that made it first and second with one out. A wild pitch by Snappers starter Jeff Manship made it second and third but Yusuf Carter struck out and Josh Lansford grounded out to third to end the threat.

Beloit picked up back-to-back singles to start the fifth inning by Greg Yersich and Yancarlos Ortiz against Chiefs reliever Chuckie Platt. Brian Dinkleman moved both runners over on a sacrifice bunt to give Beloit runners and second and third with one out. Platt got Joe Benson to hit a line drive to second baseman Matt Camp that turned into an inning ending double play.

The game remained scoreless into the sixth inning when Johnny Woodard connected on a solo home run to right field off Platt. The home run was the 21st allowed this season by the Chiefs staff.

Snappers starter Jeff Manship worked 7 2/3 innings and did not allow a run while picking up eight strikeouts. Rob Delaney picked up the final out of the eighth and sent the Chiefs down in order in the ninth to pick up his league high 11th save.

Chiefs starter Chris Shaver did not allow a run in four innings pitched in his first start of the year for Peoria. Chuckie Platt suffered his first loss of the season to fall to 2-1 on the season. Jeremy Papelbon worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings while racking up four strikeouts.

Notes… The Chiefs are now 4-14 when the opposing team scores first…Peoria is 7-8 at O’Brien Field this season…Matt Camp extended his hitting streak to a season high 10 games with a sixth inning single…Jim Adduci has now hit safely in three straight games…Thursday is DARE Day at O’Brien Field with gates opening at 9:30 AM…The Chiefs and Snappers will play game three of the four game series on Thursday morning at 11:00 AM…Peoria sends RHP Jose Pina (0-3, 5.86) to the hill against RHP (Alex Burnett (2-2, 3.32)…The game can be heard live beginning with the pre-game at 10:45 AM online at http://www.peoriachiefs.com or on WOAM 1350.

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Manship Shuts Down Peoria

Beloit Snappers Press Release

Final Score: Beloit 1, Peoria 0

Inning 1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9   R  H  E
BEL 0 0 0  0 0 1  0 0 0   1  7 1
PEO 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 0   0  5  0

Winning Pitcher:  J. Manship (W, 4-1)
Losing Pitcher:  C. Platt (L, 1-2)
Save:  R. Delaney (11)

Home Runs for Beloit:  Woodard (3)
Home Runs for Peoria:  None
Triples for Beloit:  None
Triples for Peoria:  None
Doubles for Beloit:  Valencia (5), Parmelee (6)
Doubles for Peoria:  Mota (2)

Notes: Jeff Manship pitched another gem for Beloit as the Snappers won 1-0 on Wednesday night. Johnny Woodard provided the only spark offensively for the Snappers, hitting his third home run of the season.

The game stayed scoreless until the top of the sixth inning when Woodard belted his homer. Johnny hit the first pitch he saw over the right field wall to give Manship all he would need.

Jeff pitched seven and two thirds innings of no run, five hit baseball. Manship also compiled another eight strikeouts in his fourth win of the season.

Reliever, Rob Delaney, pitched an inning and a third of scoreless relief to pick up his eleventh save of the season.

Upcoming schedule: The Snappers play game three of a six game series with the Chiefs in Peoria on Thursday. They will be returning home on Saturday, May 19th.