Blue Rocks Blank P-Nats to Salvage Series
Wilmington, DE - Timely hitting and dominant pitching powered the Wilmington Blue Rocks (9-11) to a 5-0 win over the Potomac Nationals (11-10) to salvage the three-game series Thursday night at Frawley Stadium. Brandon Downes smacked a home run in his season debut while right-hander Arnaldo Hernandez worked around early
Wilmington, DE - Timely hitting and dominant pitching powered the Wilmington Blue Rocks (9-11) to a 5-0 win over the Potomac Nationals (11-10) to salvage the three-game series Thursday night at Frawley Stadium.
For the third straight game, the Rocks struck the scoreboard first, but on Thursday night, they did not relinquish their lead. In the fourth inning, Downes crushed a two-run homer to put Wilmington ahead 2-0. Later in the inning,
In the seventh inning, the Rocks were able to get to Potomac reliever Steven Fuentes. With the bases loaded,
With the bases loaded and two outs, Tatum struck out
The Blue Rocks begin a three-game series with the Winston-Salem Dash on Friday, April 27, 2018. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. and Wilmington will send LHP
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With the win, the Rocks posted their second shutout win of the season thanks to a combined effort of Hernandez, Tatum and Camp. The trio of arms scattered nine hits, walked five and struck out eight in the winning effort. The five scoreless innings tossed by Hernandez marked the second consecutive start the righty has not allowed a run. On April 20 at Frederick, he threw six shutout innings and earned his first-career Advanced-A win.
Five different Rocks picked up a hit in the win while
THEY SAID IT, MANAGER DARRYL KENNEDY:
(On series finale win): "Any time you can stop a losing streak before it gets out of hand is always big. A couple disappointing losses the last couple nights, but we were able to put it together (Thursday night). The pitching did a great job for us tonight. It was still a close game up until the seventh inning, but I thought we worked out of some jams and made some pitches when we really needed it and that was the difference."