June 17,18 at Dover Green Wave (37-23)
June 17-Monty Frank allowed just four hits and one run over eight innings, striking out seven, and Jeffrey Franklin went 2-4 with an RBI double as Dover squeaked past the Mules 2-1. Fernando Garcia went the first five innings, scattering eight hits and allowing just one run. Dover would win the game as a throwing error by C Luis Ortiz would allow
PR John Blandford score off John Coury in the bottom of the 8th inning. (27-33)
W-Monty Frank (8-3) L-John Coury (1-3) S-Ruben Arevalo (11)
June 18-The top two batters in the Mules batting order, Scott Fullerton and Fernando Peralta went a combined 6-10 with 3 homeruns, nine RBI and 5 runs scored with Fullerton going 3-6 with a homerun, four RBI and three runs and Peralta went 3-4 with two bombs, five RBI and two runs scored as Newmarket hammered Dover 11-3. Joey Blye was the beneficiary off all the offense, going six innings, allowing three runs and six hits with 2 strikeouts, earning his 3rd win of the year. (28-33)
W-Joey Blye (3-5) L-Jerry McCauley (5-5) HR-NMKT Fernando Peralta 2(10), Scott Fullerton (1)
June 20,21,22 at Bangor Crusaders (34-28)
June 20-Tony Aguirre went eight innings, allowing three runs and striking out nine as he outpitched Jesus Guardado, who allowed 10 hits and 4 runs, just two earned over seven innings as Bangor beat Newmarket 4-3. In his first game back from injury, Dennis Spears went 2-4 with a homerun and two RBI for the Mules in the loss, while backup IF George Vickers hit his first HR of the year for Newmarket. (28-34)
W-Tony Aguirre (9-5) L-Jesus Guardado (8-5) S-Hyeok Park (1) HR-NMKT Dennis Spears (9), George Vickers (1)
June 21-Carlos Lopez went 3-4 with a tie breaking grand slam in the 7th inning off Al Foster as the Crusaders beat the Mules 7-4. Luis Sanches picked up his first loss of the year, going six innings, allowing six hits, five runs with six walks and six strikeouts. Mario Decos, back from injury hit a solo HR in his first appearance in about 3 weeks. (28-35)
W-He-ping Gu (1-0) L-Luis Sanchez (3-1) S-Hyeok Park (2) HR-NMKT Roberto Rodriguez (13), Mario Decos (11), Alberto Flores (6), BAN Carlos Lopez (9)
June 22-Newmarket avoided the sweep as the Mules scored twice in the top of the 9th inning giving them a 6-4 win after allowing the Crusaders to tie the score in the bottom of the 8th with a HR off John Coury. Mario Decos went 1-3 with three RBI and Dennis Spears and Fernando Peralta each added three hits for the Mules in the win. (29-35)
W-John Coury (2-3) L-Jesus Flores (9-5) HR-BAN Bryan Scharf 2(10)
News and Notes:
NL Player of the Week: Jose Velazquez (Durham) .455 (10-22) 2 HR 5 RBI
SL Player of the Week: Norman Vickers (Salem) .500 (11-22) 4 HR 13 RBI
-The Nashua Titans have sent 2B Keith James to the
Augusta Moose in exchange for 27 year old reliever Juan Torres. The 31 year old James was hitting .303 with 9 homeruns and 22 RBI for the Titans on the year in 152 AB's. Torres was 3-2 with a 2.16 ERA. He had appeared in 22 games, covering 25 innings. He had allowed 23 hits and 10 walks while striking out 26 and saving 5 games for the Moose on the year.
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Salem has lost star OF Scott Gardner for the season with a broken foot. Gardner suffered the injury when his foot was stepped on as he was running to first base. On the year, Gardner was hitting .358 with 22 homeruns and 44 RBI while scoring 74 runs. He had just signed a contract extention last month to keep him in Salem for the next four seasons.
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Rob Gibson of the Portsmough Clippers, who as recently as a month ago was leading just about every major offensive category, has gone thorugh a horrendous slump over the last 22 games. He is hitting just .205 (15-73) since May 31st. He has just 1 homerun and six RBI in that span.
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The Portland Bulldogs continue their march to futility with regards to stolen bases. Through 65 games, the plodding Bulldogs have one stolen base and have attemped just three all year, all by 2B Jason Tate.
Next on tap for Newmarket is the end of their roadtrip as they head to Durham for three games to face off against the Bobcats followed by a visit to Newmarket by the Portland Bulldogs for 4 games.