Yankees rally to ace Stone Crabs, 3–0

Posted by Mark Chapman on July 29th, 2010 at 12:43 am

By Grant McAuley

Char­lotte Stone Crabs Broadcaster

A three-run rally in the eighth inning Wednes­day allowed the Tampa Yan­kees to take a 3–0 vic­tory over the Char­lotte Stone Crabs at George M. Stein­bren­ner Field.

Myron Leslie’s lead­off triple sparked a three-run Yan­kees rally against Stone Crabs reliever Zach Quate, whose rare fail­ure to hold a lead wasted a bril­liant per­for­mance by Crabs starter Matt Moore. Mitch Abeita col­lected a sin­gle that chased home Leslie to break the score­less tie and give the Yan­kees the first and only run they would need to take the win.

Tampa (19−11, sec­ond half) plated a pair of insur­ance runs, how­ever, when Ray Kruml dropped down a run-scoring bunt sin­gle and Jose Pirela lifted a sac­ri­fice fly that pushed the Yan­kee lead to 3–0.

The loss for Char­lotte (14−19, sec­ond half) snapped a five-game road win­ning streak, which was tied for the longest such streak of the season.

It was a rare implo­sion for bullpen ace Quate (2−2). The righty reliever sur­ren­dered three runs on three hits and a walk in tak­ing the loss. Quate’s ERA jumped to 1.20, his high-water mark this year.

Com­ing off a week in which he was named Florida State League Pitcher of the Week, Moore con­tin­ued to shine against the Yan­kees. He allowed just one hit and walked one while strik­ing out 10 bat­ters over seven score­less innings.

Moore now has 153 strike­outs to pace both the FSL and the entire Tampa Bay Rays sys­tem. The 10 strike­outs against the Yan­kees on Wednes­day marked the sixth time that Moore has eclipsed dou­ble dig­its in a start this year.

Yan­kees starter Dellin Betances was not quite as sharp as Moore, but was able to pitch around trou­ble through­out the night and give his team six score­less innings. Betances allowed just four hits and a pair of walks while strik­ing out five men, but did not fig­ure in the decision.

Ambidex­trous hurler Pat Ven­ditte (2−0) brought his rare brand of relief to the mound to pick up the win for Tampa. Throw­ing both right and left-handed in sit­u­a­tional matchups, Ven­ditte fanned four bat­ters in two shut-out innings.

Start­ing at first base, Stephen Vogt fin­ished 1-for-3 with a walk on the day when he offi­cially took over the lead in the FSL bat­ting title race. He is still the league’s lead­ing hit­ter with a .337 mark.

Stone Crabs third base­man Greg Sex­ton extended his cur­rent hit­ting streak to nine-games with a sixth inning sin­gle. He is hit­ting .359 with seven RBI over that stretch.

The series con­tin­ues on Thurs­day as the Stone Crabs send right-hander Shane Dyer (4−6, 3.15) to the mound against south­paw Sha­ef­fer Hall (7−1, 2.35) of the Yan­kees. First pitch is set for 7 p.m.

Stone Crabs-Yankees box score 072810

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