Batavia Wins Again Over Hudson Valley
The Muckdogs (8-8) jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st and never looked back, beating Hudson Valley (9-7) 12-0. Lance Lynn (1-0) got the win for Batavia going three innings with one hit and five strikeouts. The Renegades’ Tyree Hayes (0-3) suffered the loss.
Batavia waited no time putting runs on the board in the 1st. Colt Sedbrook reached on a fielder’s choice before Jermaine Curtis hit a triple to drive him in. Shane Peterson followed by reaching on an error that scored Curtis. The big hit of the inning came on a Jon Edwards two-run homerun in the next at-bat. The Muckdogs scored again in the 2nd on a Jose Garcia walk, Frederick Parejo double and a Sedbrook ground ball out.
Batavia had two other big innings on the night, scoring three times in the 5th and plating another four runs in the 7th. The big hit in the 5th came by the bat of Edwin Gomez as he drove in two with a triple. In the 7th, Blake Murphy and Chris Swauger had back-to-back homeruns to start off the inning. Later, Garcia got hit by a pitch and scored on a Parejo single. Curtis singled to drive Parejo in for the final tally.
Edwards finished the night 2-for-4 with a homerun and a single. Swauger went 3-for-4 with a homerun and two singles.
After waiting an hour for a rain delay to start the game, the Batavia Muckdogs (7-6) blanked the Jamestown Jammers (7-4) behind a combined 14-strikeout pitching effort.
Miguel Tapia (2-1) struck out seven Jammers in five innings and allowed only three hits to get the win. Johnny Dorn (1-1) suffered the loss giving up six hits and four earned runs through three innings.
Batavia jumped out to an early lead in the bottom of the 1st on a Frederick Parejo double and Shane Peterson RBI single. But the Muckdogs big inning came in the 3rd when Jermaine Curtis led off with a single. Two batters later, Blake Murphy sent his first pitch over the left field wall for a two-run homerun. Xavier Scruggs followed Murphy’s lead, hitting one over the wall in right. Batavia’s last run came in the 4th after Beau Riportella reached second on a throwing error and Parejo drove him in with a single.
The Muckdog’s Scott Gorgen came on in relief to pitch three innings, striking out five and walking two. Hector Cardenas pitched the 9th, striking out two of the three batters he faced.
Murphy and Scruggs both went 2-for-4 with a homerun and single. Riportella went 3-for-4 with a double.
Photo Courtesy: Casey Freeman
From the Daily News (Monday):
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I love baseball, so with a certain amount of pride, I walked into Dwyer Stadium today and snapped this photo of The Batavian sign out in right field.
We're proud to be a 2008 sponsor of Batavia's legendary minor league baseball team.
This summer, we're also a sponsor of the BID's summer concert series.
We're looking at a couple of other sponsorship opportunities over the next couple of months. If your group or organization is putting on an event and need local business sponsors, let us know, because we'll certainly consider it (we can't sponsor everything of course, but we have some money left in the budget for a couple of more sponsorships this summer).
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From the Daily News (Monday):
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From the Daily News (Wednesday):
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You could have said the night started ominous. Sure, the fans were there, diehard and decked in team merch, blankets tucked under their arms. They entered Dwyer Stadium under an arc of balloons — and Muckdog management even saw fit to roll out the red carpet, or at least a pair of shaggy red-colored rugs.
Then came the rain.
Everyone was talking about it. You couldn't not. Not with those low-hanging clouds that looked as thick as continents rolling slowly past. When one of them finally broke at about 6:30pm, everyone who wasn't under cover got a good soaking. Concession boys scrambled to get the condiment carts under the eaves. Managers called out for more hands on deck to roll tarp over the field. Ladies held seat cushions over their heads.
But it passed. Soon it was pretty much over. Fans got down to the business of watching baseball, and the Batavia Muckdogs and the Auburn Doubledays got down to the business of playing it.
Well, they lost. Batavia went down 1-6 against Auburn. Oh well. Now they'll take it to Auburn for the third and final game of the series tomorrow night down two games to none.
Don't forget to tune it to WBTA for the play-by-play.
Peanuts, knuckleballs, the smell of freshly mown turf, double plays, soda pop, stadium bleachers, rally caps... and The Batavian — all fine reasons to come out for the Muckdogs home opener Wednesday at Dwyer Stadium. I will be there an hour shy of game time at about six o'clock, proud to pull up table and chair at the home of the hometown legends.
Come by and say hello. Don't be shy. I'll try not to be.
The Rochester Red Wings will get another $15,000 for improvements to Dwyer Stadium this year after the City Council approved 5-3 a resolution authorization the expenditure.
Councilman Bill Cox led the opposition, saying that taxpayers should not subsidize private enterprise. He objected specifically to the funds being used for grounds keeping.
"We're being asked to do this with no specific knowledge of any bricks or mortar or steel that needs to be repaired," Cox said.
The money is coming from the city's capital budget and, according to City Attorney George Van Nest, is consistent with previous grant requirements for the city to maintain the stadium.
Previously, the city entered into an agreement with the Red Wings with payments of $10,000 and $15,000 this year, $20,000 next year and $25,000 the following year. Council President Charlie Mallow indicated the resolution was consistent with that agreement.
City Manager Jason Molino made the point that grounds upkeep is appropriate use of Capital Account funding, because "without a field, you don't have a stadium."
The Red Wings are currently operating the Batavia Muckdogs.
UPDATE: Buffalo News correspondent Bill Brown filed this report on the council proceedings.
We're a little behind in our Daily News reading (with Philip on vacation). From the Saturday/Sunday edition, however, there were some items of note.
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Earlier this year, the Playing Rules Committee for Major League Baseball instituted some changes that would be tried out in the Minor Leagues to help speed up the game. (It should be mentioned that these changes were enacted before the Colorado Rockies took six hours and 22 innings to beat the San Diego Padres 2-1 in April.)
The changes would limit the time the pitcher has to throw the ball and the number of conferences on the mound with other players or coaches. From the MLB site:
Any combination of three or more manager/coach visits to the mound in a game without removing the pitcher will result in the automatic removal of the pitcher from the game on a fourth visit, regardless of whether prior visits were to the same or different pitcher(s). Additionally, no more than one infielder at a time is permitted to visit the mound, including during any visit by a manager or coach.
In Sunday's Niagara Gazette, contributor Doug Smith had a suggestion of his own to help keep the game going.
...it’s one of life’s little contradictions that for most dedicated baseball fans, the quicker the game, the better.
To further this end, the New York-Pennsylvania League has instituted some speed-up rules for the 2008 season that begins in Batavia on June 18. The advisory reads like the tax code, but basically, umpires will crack down on those long caucuses on the mound in which most of the players discuss where they’re going after the game, or reference “that babe in section 102.”
With strong young arms and short pitch counts, the NY-P already ranks among the minor-league leaders in game pace, so this seems an unusual place to start, and Base Paths can’t see this providing much improvement.
Want to really speed up the games?
Limit the number of pickoff throws. Three per runner ought to do it, and Kenny Rogers is pretty close to retirement anyway.
The Batavia Muckdogs will get a taste of the changes when their season starts in Auburn on June 17. Tune in to WBTA (1490 AM) to get your Muckdogs baseball fix.
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• Muckdogs General Manager Dave Wellenzohn will stand atop a lift above the entrance to Dwyer Stadium starting this Friday morning and through to the premiere of his radio show — I presume on WBTA — at 8:15am Saturday morning. All in the name of promoting the team.
The City Council voted unanimously to approve a $10,000 fund transfer — another $15,000 will be voted on at the next meeting — to fix up the ball field at Dwyer Stadium, home to the Batavia Muckdogs. A recent inspection of the field by the grounds crew found an uneven field ravaged in some spots by divots.
Naomi Silver came by the meeting to talk about the proposed maintenance. Silver heads up the business side of the Rochester Red Wings that took over management of the Muckdogs in early March.
When Silver was questioned about how long the Rochester group planned to manage the Muckdogs — even if it failed to turn a significant profit — she said: "We want to come here. We don't want to get rich on it. We want to do the right thing."
Silver called the Red Wings relationship with the Muckdogs "a true labor of love."
Wouldn't it be cool to sing the National Anthem prior to a professional baseball game?
Well, here's your chance to see if your rendition more closely matches Whtiney Houston or Roseanne Barr (warning, you really don't want to click that link unless you're completely deaf).
WBTA is sponsoring a contest that will allow the winner to sing the Anthem prior to the July 4 Muckdogs game. (More info: Last item in the April 28 news update.)
The auditions are at Noon on Saturday, May 17. We're not clear on the location, but we think at Dwyer Stadium.
Speaking of WBTA -- previously we reminded you about their Saturday auction. No online word on who won what items (if you won something, leave a comment), but the site says there is another auction June 6. Why is this important? Because everybody loves an auction!
WBTA will broadcast all 38 home games for the Batavia Muckdogs this season, the local radio station announced this morning (the station's web site doesn't offer permalinks, so eventually that announcement will scroll down and off the page ... for anybody who finds this item weeks from now).
The station will also broadcast some away games. Wayne Fuller will handle play-by-play.
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