Double Plays and Questionable Calls Cost us Big

Tonight's game was a hard loss. After getting out to a 4-0 lead going into bottom of the 6th it looked like it was going to be an easy win for the Blue Crabs. Then the strings started to unravel after Gannon walked the leadoff batter to end his 5 consecutive innings of getting the first batter out. This was followed by an error by second baseman Jermy Acey and with the bases loaded a balk was called on Gannon. This supposed balk not only gave Camden a run but resulted in Butch Hobson being thrown out of the game for arguing the call. The "balk" made the score 4-3 Blue Crabs still leading, but the Riversharks would continue their assault and bring 3 more runs across taking the lead 6-4, which they would hold until the end of the game.

The Blue Crabs had troubles from the start hitting in to a bases loaded double play to end the first, and then another double play for the first two outs in the second. Finally in the 3rd we were able to capitalize on the base runners, and again in the 4th on a 2 RBI single from Octavio Martinez. Our offense was done after that as we couldn't capitalize on our base runners and were unable to overcome the 2 run deficit brought upon us after the 6th.

On a high note however was the outstanding performance of reliever Jimmy Serrano who struck out 4 of the 6 batters he faced, going for 1-2-3 innings in his two innings of relief.

Tomorrow the Blue Crabs and Camden will play in a doubleheader beginning at 4:05 and the second game beginning 30-40 minutes following the end of the first game. The doubleheader comes as a make up for a game from May 3rd that was rained out. They will both be 7 inning games unless extra innings are needed. Hopefully following this loss we can come back and win them both. We are still in first, ahead of both Long Island and Camden by 2 games.