Sunday,
September 13, 2009
Rockcats Season Ends
Seven Rockcats
pitchers held the Connecticut offense to just two runs.,
but the Defenders limited to Rockcats to just three
hits. The Rockcats’ season ended with a 3-1 series
loss.
Mike McCardell started and gave up three hits and three walks, but
no runs, in just 2.2 innings. He struck out four. Spencer Steedley got two outs, but he
gave up a run on three hits to take the loss. Frank Mata came in and struck out five in 2.2 innings. He gave up
one run on one hit. Then Kyle Waldrop,
Tony Davis and Carlos Gutierrez each went 0.2 innings without allowing another
run. Alex Burnett threw a perfect
inning as well. Whit Robbins had two
singles while Brian Dinkelman
added another single. That was it for the Rockcats
offense.
Mike McCardell, Spencer Steedley, Steve
Singleton and Rene Tosoni will play in the Arizona Fall League.
Twins Links:
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The Twins
salvaged one game from their home series against Oakland with an 8-0 win on
Sunday. Brian Duensing
gave up eight hits and three walks in seven shutout innings for his third win
of the year. Bobby Keppel and Joe Nathan each threw a scoreless
inning. The Twins scored three runs in the first inning, one in the third and
four in the fourth inning to essentially end that game. The Twins were able to
score eight runs with both Justin Morneau and Jason
Kubel out of the lineup. Joe Mauer went 3-4 with his 27th
home run of the year. He is now hitting. Michael
Cuddyer was 3-4. Denard Span was 2-3 with two walks. Joe
Crede returned to the lineup as the team’s
Designated Hitter. He went 0-4 with four strikeouts. Of course with the Twins winning,
it meant that the Detroit Tigers also won, lowering their magic number to 15
games.
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Twins in the
World Cup. Tom Stuifbergen started for the
Netherlands against South Korea. He gave up two runs on four hits and a walk in
4.1 innings. He struck out three and used 60 pitches. Australia then beat the
Netherlands 19-6. Liam Hendriks threw
three hitless innings, needing just 30 pitches. Brad Tippett came in and 29 of his 36
pitches were strikes. However, it may have been too many starts as he gave up
six runs on six hits in just 1.2 innings. Luke
Hughes was 1-4 with three strikeouts. But the one hit was a two run homer. James Beresford went 2-3 with a walk
and a double. Team USA beat Canada 8-0. Rene
Tosoni went 0-4 with three strikeouts. Trevor Plouffe
was 1-3 with two walks. Former Twin Terry
Tiffee
went 3-4 with two doubles and three RBI.
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