Another Win for the Record Books

Although not in the same fashion as last night tonight the Blue Crabs were able to pull off another win against Long Island.

The Blue Crabs offense got off to a strong start with back to back doubles from Richard Giannotti and James Shanks in the first inning. After two errors by Gabe Suarez in the second inning catcher Octavio Martinez was on second base and would come in to score on James Shanks' second RBI Double of the night. From there our bats would go silent until the top of the 9th where interim Third Baseman Chuck Jeroloman would get a single and later come in to score on a James Shanks RBI single. With Patrick still resting his injury Chuck Jeroloman has been playing 3rd and doing an excellent job both offensively and defensively. On second today was Enohel Polanco, he went 1 for 3 with a sacrifice bunt to advance Octavio in the 7th and a single in the 9th; he struck out twice both swinging.

Defensively the Blue Crabs were nearly perfect. Starter Ryan Bicondoa went 6 complete innings facing only 3 more than the minimum, all 3 of which came in his only troublesome inning the 4th. Despite giving up 4 singles in the 4th only two runs scored and would be the only runs scored by the Long Island Ducks in the game. Jimmy Serrano would come in to pitch in the 7th again going for a 1-2-3 inning. Matt Hensley pitched well in the 8th facing 4 batters striking out 1 and walking 1. And again going in to close the game was Jim Ed Warden who would make his 9th save of the season. After giving up a leadoff single he then got the Ducks to hit into a 6-4-3 double play and then struck out the final batter of the inning on 3 pitches.

With the win the Blue Crabs remain in first and advance to 4.5 games ahead of both Long Island and Camden and 9 games ahead of Bridgeport. The Blue Crabs look to go for a sweep of the series tomorrow night in Long Island and then return home for 3 games against Bridgeport and 4 games against York. With only 25 games until the All-Star break it is with high hopes that the Blue Crabs will continue their strong performances.