Yankees Nip Vermont 3-2 Wednesday
STATEN ISLAND, NY --- A ninth-inning rally came up just short for the Lake Monsters on Wednesday night as the Staten Island Yankees held on for a 3-2 New York-Penn League victory over Vermont at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.
STATEN ISLAND, NY --- A ninth-inning rally came up just short for the Lake Monsters on Wednesday night as the Staten Island Yankees held on for a 3-2 New York-Penn League victory over Vermont at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.
Trailing 3-1 to start the ninth, the Lake Monsters got three straight hits to score a run and put the tying/go ahead runs on base. Greg Deichmann led off the inning with an opposite field double to left and scored on a
After Toffey advanced to third on a forceout at second for the first out of inning,
Vermont starter Jared Poche', Oakland's ninth-round pick in 2017 draft out of LSU, tossed two scoreless innings with two strikeouts in his professional debut. Poche' worked around a one-out single in the first before allowing a one-out single and two-out double in second.
The Yankees added an insurance run in eighth inning as after a one-out
Yankees starter
Deichmann, Toffey and Gridley each had two hits for Vermont (14-8), while Blaser, Wikerman Garcia and
The Lake Monsters and Yankees will wrap up the four-game series at Staten Island on Thursday at 7:00 pm. Vermont returns to historic Centennial Field for a six-game homestand that begins on Friday against Auburn and rus through July 19th.
Paul Stanfield is the Media Relations Director for the Vermont Lake Monsters.