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HomeSportsTampa clobbers Crabs, 10–1

Tampa clobbers Crabs, 10–1

Posted by Mark Chapman on July 30th, 2010 at 12:14 am

By Grant McAuley

Char­lotte Stone Crabs

A huge night from Melky Mesa helped the Tampa Yan­kees post a con­vinc­ing 10–1 vic­tory over the Char­lotte Stone Crabs on Thurs­day at George M. Stein­bren­ner Field.

Mesa went 4-for-5 with a pair of home runs, five RBI, four runs scored and two stolen bases. Though he fin­ished a dou­ble shy of the cycle, Mesa put the excla­ma­tion point on his night by belt­ing his sec­ond two-run homer of the evening in the eighth inning.

Stone Crabs starter Shane Dyer (4−7) took the loss. He sur­ren­dered five earned runs on seven hits and a pair of walks, while strik­ing out five men over 5 2–3 innings. It marked the fifth con­sec­u­tive loss for the right-hander.

After win­ning five con­sec­u­tive games to open the cur­rent road trip, the Char­lotte offense has gone quiet. The Stone Crabs have scored just one run over their last 19 innings.

Hits were hard to come by for Char­lotte (14−29, sec­ond half), which man­aged just four on the night against a trio of Yan­kees hurlers. The only run of the night came on Rocco Baldelli’s RBI ground out in the sev­enth inning.

Sha­ef­fer Hall (8−1) picked up the win by fac­ing just two more than the minu­mum over five innings of work. He fanned four Char­lotte hit­ters and retired the last nine men he faced.

The Tampa (20−11, sec­ond half) bats were alive and well in the third game of the series, pound­ing out 11 hits and ben­e­fit­ing from four Char­lotte errors, four wild pitches and four walks to score their 10 runs.

Greg Sexton’s nine-game hit­ting streak came to an end with an 0-for-3 night, though he did draw a walk and scored the only Stone Crabs run of the night.

The series con­cludes on Fri­day as right-hander Nick Bar­nese (8−4, 2.90) takes the mound against Yan­kees righty Gra­ham Stoneb­urner (5−4, 2.48). First pitch is set for 7 p.m.

Stone Crabs-Yankees box score 072910

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