Stone Crabs pounded, 15–7

Posted by Mark Chapman on July 17th, 2010 at 12:19 am

By Grant McAuley

Char­lotte Stone Crabs Broadcaster

A big night at the plate from Brock Kjeldgaard helped the Bre­vard County Man­a­tees slug their way to a 15–7 win over the Char­lotte Stone Crabs on Fri­day at Space Coast Stadium.

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Kjeldgaard fin­ished 4-for-5 with a pair of home runs and seven RBI. He nar­rowly missed con­nect­ing for a third homer in his final at-bat, instead set­tling for a dou­ble that rat­tled off the cen­ter field wall.

Char­lotte pitch­ers were lit up for a season-high 15 runs and 18 hits by the Bre­vard County offense.

Frank De Los San­tos (7–5)  sur­ren­dered eight runs — seven earned — on 11-hits in tak­ing the loss.

The first of two three-run homers from Kjeldgaard came in the bot­tom of the fourth inning off De Los San­tos. That round-tripper erased a one-run Char­lotte lead and turned it into a 4–2 Man­a­tees advantage.

Bre­vard County (12−9) put the game out of reach with a six-run sev­enth inning against a pair of Char­lotte relievers.

After a field­ing error and sin­gle opened the bot­tom of the sev­enth, Kjeldgaard belted his sec­ond three-run blast of the night, this time off Rayner Oliv­eros. Five bat­ters later, Sean Hal­ton put the punc­tu­a­tion mark on the inning by scream­ing a three-run homer of his own against Justin Garcia.

The duo of Oliv­eros and Gar­cia com­bined to allow seven runs on seven hits in 3 2/3 innings of relief.

On the offen­sive side for the Stone Crabs (9−13), Tim Beck­ham and Matt Spring both fin­ished 2-for-4 with a pair of RBI. Christo­pher Mur­rill also went 2-for-4 with two runs scored.

The series con­cludes today as Matt Moore (4−8) takes the mound for the Stone Crabs against fel­low lefty Dan Merklinger (3−4). First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m.

CRAB NOTES: The three homers allowed ties the single-game high allowed by Char­lotte pitch­ers this sea­son. … Win or lose, it was an ugly game. Both teams com­mit­ted three errors, and left a slew of run­ners on base (Char­lotte 14, Bre­vard 15). … Closer Zach Quate has enjoyed a great run of suc­cess against his FSL oppo­nents, and set a club record in the process. The 10th inning run scored against Quate Thurs­day night broke a streak of 25 con­sec­u­tive score­less innings com­piled by the righty reliever. The Man­a­tees now own two of the three runs plated against him this season.

Stone Crabs-Manatees box score 071610

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