Cats Scratch Pensacola Pelicans

May 28, 2010

The Cats (6-7) grinded out 18 hits off Pelicans pitching to propell them to a resounding 11-5 win over the Pelicans (5-9) Thursday night.

The Cats struck first blood in the 1st inning against Aaron Jackson, when John Allen hit a high bouncing ball up the middle into center to bring in Brian Fryer to make it 1-0 Cats. The Cats woulkdn’t stop there as Seth Fortebberry hammered a double down the right field line which scored Allen to make it 2-0. The scoring didn’t stop there as Kelley Gulledge hit a bouncing ball that snuck through the right side of the infield to bring home Fortenberry for a 3-0 lead. One batter later, Brenan Herrera laced a single to left center to score Gulledge to cap the scoring in the inning at 4-0.

The Cats would tack on three more runs in the 3rd with RBI singles from Herrera, Fryer, and McCoola which busted the game open early for the Cats with the score at 7-0.

The Pels wouldn’t go down quietly and got back in the game in the 4th inning. With runners on first and second with nobody out, John Alonso hit a boomingt ball off the left center field fence to score Javier Brito and Marcos Rodgriguez to cute the deficit to five 7-2.
Lou Palmisano walked following Alonso’s hit. Chase Porch would bunt the runners over and Dallas Christison would bring home Alonso on an RBI groundout to short to make it 7-3 Cats.

The Cats would get a run back on a wild pitch from Pelican Aaron starter which would score Rob Recuenco to increase the lead back to 8-3.

The Pels would get that run right back with one out and nobody on, Antoin Gray hit a towering homerun to left for his first homerun of the 2010 campaign to make it 8-4.

The Cats would add a run in the 6th on an RBI single from Gulledge to get the lead back up to 9-4.

Leading off the bottom of the 6th, Adolfo Gonzalez hit a bomb to left field for his 2nd homerun of the season to make it 9-5.

The Cats would add on to their run total as Herrera hit a blooping single over Gray’s out-stretched glove to score Gulledge to make it 10-5. Jeremy Sauceda would follow with a RBI double down the left field line to give the Cats an 11-5 lead.

Tim Bittner (1-2) gets the win as he pitched 6 innings and gave up 4 runs off 7 hits.

The loss goes to Aaron Jackson (0-2) as he was tagged for 9 runs off 13 hits while striking out 5.

The Pelicans finish the homestand at 3-4 and will be back on the road starting Saturday night against the Shreveport-Bossier Captains. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm with the pregame show at 6:55pm on pensacolapelicans.com.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under Sports