Posted by:
James Tully
After surrendering an early five-run lead, the
York Revolution had the final say as
Salvador Paniagua's two-out
RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the
Revs to a 6-5 win over the
Camden Riversharks on
Saturday night, in front of 4,983 fans at a windy
Santander Stadium.
The Revs, 2-0 for the first time since
2011, will host the Riversharks in a doubleheader on Sunday beginning at 2 p.m.
York stormed out to a quick 5-0 lead after two innings
. In the first,
Sean Smith led off with a triple to center and scored on a
Wilson Valdez sac fly.
Eric Patterson was then hit by a pitch, stole second, and scored on
Chad Tracy's single to deep left.
Travis Garcia later slammed an RBI double off the wall in left-center, giving the Revs three first inning runs. The offensive display continued in the second as Paniagua and Tim
Torres connected on back-to-back doubles to plate a run, and
Tracy later rapped a two-out RBI single to left, making it 5-0.
The offense came in support of
York County native
Anthony Lerew, who held
Camden scoreless over the first three innings in his Revs debut, and allowed just two runs in four-plus innings of work. Lerew only allowed a solo home run to
Kalian Sams in the fourth, and an inherited run on a groundout after his exit in the fifth.
Reliever
Jorge Martinez limited Camden to just the one run on
Paddy Matera's groundout in the fifth inning, striking out
Sams looking to leave runners at the corners in his
American professional debut. The
Cuba native was tagged with a pair of runs in the sixth inning, however, as the
Sharks rallied for three more runs to draw even at 5-5.
Bryan Pounds had the big hit, a pinch-hit two-run double to right, before scoring the equalizer on a single by
Yasser Gomez.
Camden's bullpen held York without a hit from the third inning through the seventh, with
Scott Gorgen logging three of those innings and
Andrew Johnston the latter two. The Revs rallied in the eighth, however, as Tracy greeted righty
Greg Miller (
0-1) with a four-pitch walk, and
Johan Limonta chopped a single into right.
Miller came back to record the next two outs, but Paniagua jumped on the first pitch, roping the deciding single into left field, plating pinch-runner
Brandon Chaves with the eventual winning run.
It was York's bullpen that took over late in the game, as Ian
Durham (
1-0) held Camden without a hit in the seventh and eighth innings to earn the win, while
Rommie Lewis fired a scoreless ninth for his first save of the season.
Report provided by the York Revolution
- published: 11 May 2015
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