Bridgeport Returns the Favor

After the Blue Crabs swept Bridgeport in the last series the Bluefish return the favor by sweeping us in 3 games. This loss marks the longest losing streak of the season for the Blue Crabs at 3. Our demise came in the 5th inning when the Bridgeport Bluefish scored 7 runs and saw 11 batters come to the plate.

Again our offense was less then impressive, as despite getting every starter safely on base we were only able to score 7 runs. We hit into two inning-ending double plays, and struck out six times. Today however we were hitting well enough to get Bridgeport to call on their bullpen. Their starter today was former Blue Crab Dan Reichert who was picked up from the Blue Crabs last season early by the majors. I believe we are trying too hard to get that perfect hit to impress the home crowd. We can't seem to make the timely hits or avoid hitting it so high that the outfield can't track it. The new jerseys that we wore today seemed to keep the boys cool however there seemed to be less energy then usual from the team. Patrick Osborn again played DH and Octavio Martinez played first but was pinch-hit for in the 9th by usual first baseman Eric Crozier, while recent acquisition John Ramistella led off and played in right field. John was 0-3 on the day with 2 runs scored on 2 walks. Short Stop Travis Garcia had an impressive day going 3-5 with a run scored. He had 3 singles in his first three at bats as pictured below.



Defensively we played well save for the fifth inning where everything seemed to fall apart. Through 45 at bats we had only one strike out. The other 26 outs were split between groundouts and fly outs; we didn't turn a single double play. Starter Kenny Baugh went 4 and 1/3 innings and didn't run into trouble until the 5th. Matt Schweitzer pitched in what may have been his longest outing of the season so far, at 3 and 2/3 innings. He gave up one run on two hits in the 5th and then had back to back to back 1-2-3 innings in the 6th, 7th and 8th. Closer Jim Ed Warden came in to pitch in the 9th although he appeared to be having an off day walking the first two batters, giving up a hit and surrendering a run.

In other Blue Crabs News: With the loss we drop to 21-14 yet remain in first place a mere 2.5 games ahead of Long Island, 3 games ahead of Camden and 7 games ahead of Bridgeport. Tomorrow evening starts a 4 game series against the York Revolution who are at a league worst 10-24. The last series against York the Blue Crabs won the series 2 games to 1. Today was approximately the halfway point of the first half of the season. With about 35 games left to go it is much to early to call a playoff bid in either division though the Blue Crabs will most certainly have to step up in order to maintain their first place status. The All Star game is scheduled for the 23rd of June and hopefully the Blue Crabs will be able to get some players in the game for the second season in a row.