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South Jersey Baseball:
Thunder Fall in 14 Innings to Portland Sunday, August 20, 2006 By Dan Loney Luis Jimenez's RBI double in the 14th Inning powered the Portland Sea Dogs to a 4-3 win over trenton on Sunday at Waterfront Park. The loss shrinks the Thunder's lead in the Northern Division to 4 1/2 games over the Sea Dogs. It is the second time this season the Portland has beaten Trenton in a 14-Inning game. The Sea Dogs outlasted the Thunder, 14-13, back on July 2nd at Hadlock Field. That game lasted 5 hours, 30 minutes, the second longest game in Trenton history. This game went just 4 hours, 12 minutes. |
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South Jersey Baseball:
Thunder Fall to Sea Dogs, 2-1 Saturday, August 19, 2006 By Dan Loney Brandon Moss' sacrifice fly in the 10th Inning scored the go-ahead run to give the Portland Sea Dogs a 2-1 win over the Thunder on Saturday night. The loss drops Trenton's lead in the Northern Division to 5 1/2 games over the Sea Dogs. Trenton (70-55) took a 1-0 lead in the 1st Inning on a solo homer by SS Felix Escalona, his 8th of the season, but Portland (64-60) came back to tie the game in the 4th Inning against Trenton starter Phil Hughes on an RBI single by 1B Luis Jimenez. Hughes allowed one run in five innings, as did Portland starter Frank Brooks. |
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South Jersey Baseball:
Leathers Homer Leads Surf Over Bluefish Thursday, August 17, 2006 By Denny Watson Todd Leathers blasted a walkoff home run to left field in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Atlantic City Surf a 3-2 victory over the Bridgeport Bluefish Thursday night at Bernie Robbins Stadium before 1922. The blast, which came off Eddy Ramos, was the 12th of the season for Leathers and the second Leather walkoff at the stadium this season. Leathers homer came after the Bluefish had rallied to score two runs off Surf ace Lincoln Mikkelsen in the top of the ninth inning. Mikkelsen had carried a five-hit shutout into the ninth but Bridgeport got an RBI from Steve Hine and scored another on a throwing error by Atlantic City's Ozzie Timmons packaged around hits by Barry Wesson and P.J. Rose. |
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South Jersey Baseball:
Clippard Tosses 1st "No-Hitter" in Trenton Thunder History Thursday, August 17, 2006 By Dan Loney Tyler Clippard became the first Trenton pitcher in the 13-year history of the franchise to toss a no-hitter as the Thunder beat Harrisburg, 9-0, on Thursday night. The Thunder finished their current road trip with four straight wins and a 5-1 mark. Clippard, 21, retired the first five batters of the night before a walk to Senators 1B Josh Whitesell in the 2nd Inning. He then retired the next 12 batters before trouble in the 6th Inning. With two outs, Clippard walked the bases loaded, all on 3-2 pitches. But he got DH Prentice Redman to fly out to end the inning. |
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South Jersey Baseball:
Surf Defeat Bluefish in 10th Inning Tuesday, August 15, 2006 By Denny Watson The Atlantic City Surf defeated the Bridgeport Bluefish 8-7 in 10 innings at Bernie Robbins Stadium Tuesday. The Surf rallied from a 6-1 deficit to sent the game into extra innings and won it on Clyde Williams's RBI single to right off Bridgeport's Eddy Ramos that scored pinch runner Dusty Maddox. Gary Johnson enjoyed a five-RBI night for Atlantic City with four of those runs coming on a fifth inning grand slam off Bluefish starter T.J. Matthews. |
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