Friendly Confines not so Friendly

Tonight the Blue Crabs dropped their second in a row to the Bridgeport Bluefish. This was their first loss at home after scoring first and ties their current record for consecutive home losses. The last time the Blue Crabs lost back to back games at home was the 8th & 9th of May against the Newark Bears. The Blue Crabs have yet to lose more then two games consecutively.

Tonight's starter Kenny Rayborn pitched 6 innings surrendering 7 hits, giving up 3 runs at least 2 of which were earned, striking out 5 batters and walking 3. Tonight was his first loss of the season. Mike James came in to pitch the 7th and 8th innings giving up one run on two hits, and one strike out. Jimmy Serrano finished the game off in the 9th. He broke his streak of 1-2-3 innings, surrendering 3 singles, which resulted in one run and struck out one batter.

Offensively we were slightly better then last night, getting two runs on 7 hits. The two runs were scored by Richard Giannotti and Patrick Osborn. Giannotti scored in the first on an RBI fielder’s choice by Eric Crozier after Eric ran hard to beat out the potential double play. Patrick's run was brought in on a throwing error. The Bridgeport Bluefish left their pitcher Gary Knotts in for their second complete game win as the Blue Crabs were again unable to string hits together in a fashion that would required a fresh arm.

Giannotti's Leadoff single.

In other Blue Crabs News: Patrick Osborn was back in the line up today after being activated from the disabled list. He was tonight's designated hitter and went 1 for 4 with a run scored. Also seen tonight was last years right fielder John Ramistella. He was wearing number 26 and could start as soon as tomorrow. Hopefully if he does start tomorrow he will be able to get us out of this slump. The Blue Crabs look to prevent the sweep with a win tomorrow. Despite losing tonight the Blue Crabs remain in first place 3.5 games ahead of Long Island, 4 games ahead of Camden and 8 games ahead of Bridgeport.