Crabs Drop First Game of the Road Trip

After Sweeping York at home, the Blue Crabs turned to the road where they dropped the first of a 6 game 7-day road trip to the Newark Bears.

Joe Gannon pitched the entire game, suffering his 11th loss of the season. In 8 innings of work (as the Bears did not need their half of the 9th) He allowed 7 runs on 7 hits, however only 5 of those runs were earned. He also walked 6 while striking out 2 but did not give up a single home run in the game. After a rough first inning, Gannon sat down the bears in order in the second and only allowed one base runner in the third on a walk. After getting the first out in the 5th he would allow another walk before getting the next 9 batters out in a row. Although he gave up one single in the 7th it was quickly erased on a caught attempt at stealing.

The Blue Crabs offense appeared to still be on the bus, getting only 2 runs in the game off of a mere 5 hits. The First run came in the second when with one out Ken Harvey would double and score on a balk after Ken had moved to third on a Jeremy Owens single. We would not score again until the 6th when with two out James Shanks would walk and score on a bases loaded walk dealt to Jeremy Owens. In the 9th, Anthony Perry pinch ran for Ken Harvey who was walked, after two consecutive strike outs Mike Just stepped in 0-3 on the day and laced a single into shallow left center field to put runners on the corners. Anthony Perry always the hustler easily made his was to third on the play. The rally would come to an end however as a long ball hit by John Ramistella did not have the distance and hung up over the warning track.