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Lara Struggles But Las Vegas Bats Bail Him Out

Salt Lake Bees @ Las Vegas 51s


July 8, 2015



Teams
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

R
H
E
Salt Lake
0
1
1
2
0
1
0
0
0

5
10
1
Las Vegas
0
4
0
2
0
2
2
0
X

10
14
2
W: Church (4-1, 3.89 ERA); L: Wilk (3-7, 5.80 ERA)


The Highlights:

Pitchers

Rainy Lara (7.13 ERA) – 4 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 2 BB, 2 SO, HR, 65 Pitches (40 Strikes), 5 GO: 2 FO
John Church – 2 IP, 2 H, R, 2 SO, HR, 3 GO: 1 FO
Scott Rice (H, 5, 2.59 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 SO, 1 GO
Cody Satterwhite (4.87 ERA) – 1 IP, SO, 1 GO: 1 FO
Vic Black (13.50 ERA) – 1 IP, H, 2 SO, 1 FO

Batters

Dilson Herrera – 3-5, R, 2 2B (11), 2 RBI (17), SB (5), SO
Anthony Recker – 1-2, 3 BB
Alex Castellanos – 1-5, SO
Jayce Boyd – 1-5, R
Travis Taijeron – 2-4, 2 R, 2B (11), HR (15), RBI (43), SO
Cory Vaughn – 2-4, 2 R, 2 2B (5), 2 RBI (12), SO
Dan Rohlfing – 3-4, 3 R, 2 2B (9), RBI (18)
Wilfredo Tovar – 1-3, R, 2B (10), RBI (30), SB (22)

Recap


            The 51s offense had one of those nights when everyone hits, which led to an easy win in their series opener against Salt Lake Wednesday night. Darrell Ceciliani would be the only Las Vegas batter not to record a hit during the offensive explosion, with four 51s player providing multiple hits Wednesday night, and 9 of 14 hits going for extra bases. Las Vegas starter Rainy Lara was smacked around over the first 4 innings, but then the 51s bullpen did a great job of shutting the Bees offense down behind him. John Church would allow a solo homerun to Gary Brown leading off the 6th, which temporarily left this a one-run game, but then Las Vegas pulled away with two runs in both the 6th and 7th innings. Scott Rice, Cody Satterwhite, and Vic Black finished the game off by contributing a scoreless inning of relief each.
            Lara was in trouble during each inning on the mound, only keeping the Bees scoreless during the 1st inning. Alex Yarbrough connected for a homerun against Lara leading off the 2nd inning to put Salt Lake up 1-0. They’d pick up a double off of Lara in both the 3rd and 4th innings, and both times the runner would come home to score.
            Jayce Boyd returned to the lineup Wednesday day and sparked the 2nd inning rally for Las Vegas with a leadoff single. Four of the next five batters would double (Taijeron, Vaughn, Rohlfing, and Dilson), and suddenly Las Vegas had a 4-1 lead. Rohlfing and Tovar would hit back-to-back doubles for a run in the 4th inning, and then Tovar would steal 3B and come home on a wild pitch. Travis Taijeron led off the 7th inning with his 15th homerun of the year, launching a no-doubter to left center field that really impressed announcer Russ Langer. Vaughn and Dilson would add their second doubles of the night for another run in the frame, putting this game practically out of hand – no PCL lead is safe.

            This series continues Thursday night with a double-header scheduled for 8:05 PM. The 51s are expected to send Luis Cessa to the mound for his second PCL start in the opener, and Logan Verrett to the mound in the nightcap.



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