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Jamestown provides the fireworks against Scrappers
By Pete Mollica
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The Mahoning Valley Scrappers’ stay in a first place tie in the Pinckney Division of the New York-Penn League was a short one.
Saturday night the Scrappers were battered by the Jamestown Jammers 13-3 at Eastwood Field, in a game that had very few bright spots for manager Travis Fryman.
Mahoning Valley (8-8) managed just five hits and those five were divided up between two players, Chase Burnette and Dan DeGeorge, with Burnette getting three.
“You would have to look pretty hard to find anything good about tonight’s effort,” Fryman said. “I did think that Chase swung the bat very well, but he’s been doing that pretty consistently lately.”
Fryman said the team defense has been the only thing that has been really consistent in the season.
“I looked up and saw they had five errors and we didn’t have any and we were getting pummeled out there,” he added.
The fact that the Jammers (9-7) had 16 hits had a lot to do with it.
“Everything they hit seemed to find a hole somewhere, but our pitching wasn’t what it should be tonight and we only had five hits,” Fryman said. “We must lead the league in runs scored per hits.”
The Jammers wasted little time in jumping on starting pitcher Michael Rayl as they scored five runs in the second inning on five hits when they sent 10 batters to the plate.
The Scrappers closed the gap in the third, scoring three times on just two hits, but the Jammers helped the cause with two of their five errors in the inning. Burnette had a RBI single.
Mahoning Valley used five pitchers in the game, but none were really effective. The five allowed 16 hits, walked seven and hit three batters.
Jamestown added three runs in the fifth inning, two of them on Sequoyah Stonecipher’s two-run home run to left field. It was his second homer in two nights.
The Jammers then put things away in the seventh, scoring four more runs on just two hits, but the Scrappers helped out with three walks.
Rayl (0-2), who was making his fourth start, has pitched well in his three previous appearances, but barely made it through the first two innings on Saturday.
“Michael struggled some tonight, but these kids are going to have nights like this,” Fryman said. “There are a lot of guys on this roster who are going to have nights like this, it is all part of learning about professional baseball.”
Offensively, Jamestown had six players with at least two hits, as designated hitter Noah Perio led the way with three singles.
The Scrappers left right after the game to begin a three-game series today against the Connecticut Tigers in Norwich, Conn. They will return home July 8 to take on the Vermont Lake Monsters.
JamestownScrappers
abrhbiabrhbi
Lopez 2b4120Casas lf1100
Perio dh6033Fontanez ss5100
Ozuna rf6021Seastrunk c4000
Senne 1b5220Burnette 1b4031
Stoncphr lf4222Urshela 3b4000
Giminez c5000Kinney dh4000
Mucklsch ss2311Rucker rf4000
Diaz4222Heere cf3000
Keys cf4323DeGeorge 2b4120
Totals40131612Totals33351
Jamestown050130400—13
Scrappers003000000—3
E—Veres (2), Stonecipher (1), Giminez (1), Muecklisch (2), Diaz (4). DP—Jamestown 2, Scrappers 2. LOB—Jamestown 9, Scrappers 9. 2B—Ozuna (2), Muecklish (1), Senne (3), Keys (2). HR—Stonecipher (2). SB—Muecklish 2 (3), DeGeorge (1).
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Jamestown
Veres W, 1-0543230
Toves200002
Holmes210010
Scrappers
Rayl L, 0-2275520
Rosario221100
Smith2 1-356624
Goryl1 2-311121
Reichenbach110000
WP—Goryl. HBP—by Toves (Heere, Casas), by Rayl (Lopez), by Smith (Muecklisch), by Goryl (Muecklisch). Umpires—Home, Robert Porter; Bases, Mike Patterson. T—2:45. A—2,136.