Marauders Bats Swallowed by Jays Pitching
BRADENTON, Fla. — A solo homer by Jase Bowen was the only offense the Marauders could muster Thursday night as Bradenton fell to the Dunedin Blue Jays, 3-1, at LECOM Park. Eddy Yean (4-2) pitched five strong innings for the Marauders (44-30) but came out on the losing end. The
BRADENTON, Fla. — A solo homer by Jase Bowen was the only offense the Marauders could muster Thursday night as Bradenton fell to the Dunedin Blue Jays, 3-1, at LECOM Park.
Eddy Yean (4-2) pitched five strong innings for the Marauders (44-30) but came out on the losing end. The right-hander held Dunedin scoreless over his first three innings, but in the fourth, he issued a two-out walk to Miguel Hiraldo. The next batter, Orelvis Martinez, appeared to fly out to center field on the first pitch of his at-bat, but base umpire Joe McCarthy signaled a balk prior to the delivery. With Hiraldo on second base, Martinez crushed Yean’s next pitch into the left-field bleachers for his league-leading 19th home run and a 2-0 Blue Jays lead.
Dunedin (33-41) right-hander Sem Robberse (4-4) tossed a career-high seven innings, limiting Bradenton to four hits and striking out five while walking only one. He opened the fifth inning by allowing Jase Bowen’s solo homer, a line-drive shot that just stayed inside the left field foul pole, to trim the Marauders’ deficit to 2-1.
The Marauders squandered a scoring opportunity the following inning against Robberse, as Hudson Head walked and Jack Herman singled with one out in the sixth. But Endy Rodriguez grounded into an inning-ending double play, killing the threat.
Sergio Umana provided three shutdown innings of relief behind Yean, retiring each of the nine batters he faced from the sixth through the eighth to keep the game close for Bradenton’s bats.
Oliver Mateo pitched the ninth for Bradenton, allowing a one-out RBI-double to Zach Britton, and the Marauders were unable to mount another threat, as Rodriguez’s sixth-inning double-play grounder began a streak of 10 straight Bradenton hitters retired to end the game. Right-hander Juan de Paula pitched the final two innings in relief to earn the save for Dunedin.
Rodriguez went 0-for-4 for the Marauders, ending his 11-game hit streak and 23-game on-base streak, both season-highs.
The series continues Friday with first pitch scheduled for 6:05 p.m. RHP Logan Hofmann will start for the Marauders against RHP Alejandro Melean for the Blue Jays.
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