Saturday, May 25, 2008
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Biscuits sweep doubleheader from BayBears
Biscuits take double-dip, 3-2, 9-3
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MOBILE – The Montgomery Biscuits took both halves of a doubleheader from the Mobile BayBears at Hank Aaron Stadium Saturday night, 3-2 and 9-3.
With the sweep, the Biscuits picked up a game and a half on every other team in the Southern League's South Division, placing them alone in second place and five games behind the Birmingham Barons.
Gaby Martinez had the game-winning hit in both games. His two-out, two-strike solo homer in the seventh inning of Game One broke a tie that Biscuits pitchers had worked hard to protect. His two-run single in Game Two was part of a five-run fourth inning that was enough in itself to topple Mobile.
The BayBears scored two runs on the first two pitches they saw in Game One, with a single by Guillermo Reyes and a home run by Chris Rahl. They certainly threatened to do so, though. Montgomery starter James Houser had two runners in scoring position against him with one out in the fifth, when ninth hitter Greg Thomson attempted a suicide squeeze. His bunt popped in the air, and catcher John Jaso turned it into an inning-ending double play. But the saving play was nothing compared to Colter Bean's escape act in the following inning.
Houser walked three in a row to start the sixth with the score tied at two. Bean entered with no one out and proceeded to finish the inning scorelessly with a groundout, popout and strikeout.
Martinez's seventh-inning homer, off of Mobile starter Hector Ambriz, made a winner of Bean. Houser (5 2/3 IP, 5 H, 2 ER) got his ninth no-decision in 10 starts.
The Biscuits had tied the game in the third on former BayBear Ronnie Merrill's fourth homer of the season.
The Biscuits supported starter Richard De Los Santos in Game Two, hammering out five runs in the fourth on Martinez's single, a two-run double by Matt Spring and another run-producing single by Josh Asanovich.
De Los Santos allowed no BayBears past first until the sixth inning, when he allowed three runs on four hits and met his Waterloo.
The Biscuits would ensure De Los Santos'victory, though, by adding another run in the sixth on a Johnny Raburn sacrifice fly and three more in the seventh on a Nowak single and a two-run hit by Asanovich.
Montgomery has now won eight of its last 10 and stands at 14-8 in May after a 9-17 April. They've clinched the five-game series against Mobile and the three games at Hank Aaron Stadium.
The final game of the series is Sunday at 6:05 p.m. with Biscuits lefty Mike Prochaska on the mound.
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