Send Jackets fall in Hagerstown

Posted: 7:25 PM May 7, 2012
Reporter: Staff

Monday May 7, 2012

Hagerstown, MD – Augusta GreenJackets allowed a season-high 17 hits as the Hagerstown Suns batted around in two different innings to build a big lead and eventually earn an 11-3 win over the GreenJackets on Monday night in Hagerstown.

Sending ten to the plate, the Suns scored six runs on six hits and a walk to bring an early end to Augusta starter Paul Davis’s night. With one out and the bases full, Hagerstown’s Brett Newsome drove home a pair with an RBI single. Centerfielder John Eshleman misplayed the ball in center to allow the runner from first and Newsome to both score on the play to put the Suns up 4-0. Later in the frame, Jason Martinson’s two-run double pushed the Hagerstown lead to 6-0.

Davis (2-1) took his first loss in just his second start of the year, allowing six runs – four earned – on seven hits and a walk in two innings while striking out a pair.

Down 6-0, the GreenJackets had a solid chance to get back into the game in the fourth inning by loading the bases with one out. Brett Krill reached on a fielder’s choice groundball to deep short to bring in a run and put Augusta on the board. With men at first and third, Michael Mergenthaler grounded into an inning-ending double play to kill the threat on the very next pitch.

In the fifth, the Suns sent 11 to the plate and scored five times on six more hits and a walk to put the game out of reach. Hagerstown got RBI singles from Justin Miller, Newsome, Cutter Dykstra and Martinson while Billy Burns was hit by a pitch to force home a fifth run. Augusta got two runs back in the sixth on a Ben Thomas RBI double and Mergenthaler’s RBI single, but would pull no closer than 11-3. The GreenJackets left the bases loaded in both the eighth and ninth innings.

Hagerstown starter Wirkin Estevez (4-1) earned the win for the Suns, scattering three runs and seven hits in seven innings. Estevez walked one and struck out three.

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