Rocks Can't Keep Pace with Red Sox
Wilmington, DE - After taking the first two games of a four-game series against the Salem Red Sox, (23-24) the Wilmington Blue Rocks (20-29) hit a speed bump on Sunday afternoon losing the third game of the series, 7-2. Blue Rocks starting pitcher Jace Vines didn't have his best stuff
Wilmington, DE - After taking the first two games of a four-game series against the Salem Red Sox, (23-24) the Wilmington Blue Rocks (20-29) hit a speed bump on Sunday afternoon losing the third game of the series, 7-2. Blue Rocks starting pitcher
For the second time this series, the Red Sox scored first after the lone walk by Vines scored Salem's
Wilmington would waste no time with a response. Vizcaino started the scoring with an RBI single scoring
The Red Sox made the comeback efforts just a little bit tougher. In the fourth inning,
After coming off two strong outings, Vines struggled with command at times, but matched a season-high with seven innings of work. The right-hander gave up nine hits, six runs, four of which were earned, and one walk with only two strikeouts. His counter-part
The Rocks will try to close out and win the series on Memorial Day on Monday, May 28 with a 12:05 p.m. start time at Frawley Stadium. Wilmington will send right-hander
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The Blue Rocks kicked around the baseball in the third game of the series against Salem and tied a season-high with four defensive miscues in the loss Sunday afternoon. The Rocks had four errors in a game back on April 27 at home against the Winston-Salem Dash. The four-error game ended a season-high, three-game stretch in which they did not commit an error.
The Blue Crew fell a game short of matching their longest winning streak of the season at three games which they accomplished back on April 19-21 at Frederick. The Blue Rocks have won back-to-back games one other occasion aside from the first two games of this series. On April 28-29 at home against Winston-Salem, the Rocks took the last two games of a three-game series before falling at Potomac the on May 1.
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