Vermont Falls 7-3 To Renegades Tuesday

BURLINGTON, VT --- Vidal Brujan and Zac Law both collected two hits, a double and two RBI, while Mikey York tossed five scoreless innings to lead the Hudson Valley Renegades to a 7-3 victory over the Vermont Lake Monsters in New York-Penn League action Tuesday night at historic Centennial Field.

BURLINGTON, VT --- Vidal Brujan and Zac Law both collected two hits, a double and two RBI, while Mikey York tossed five scoreless innings to lead the Hudson Valley Renegades to a 7-3 victory over the Vermont Lake Monsters in New York-Penn League action Tuesday night at historic Centennial Field.
The Renegades busted the game open in the second with five runs on three hits and two hit batters by Vermont starter Abdiel Mendoza, who had entered the frame having tosses 16 consecutive scoreless innings (including two straight outings of seven shutout innings).
Oscar Rojas got the scoring started with an RBI single and Brujan later doubled home a pair of runs for a 3-0 Hudson Valley lead. A Taylor Walls sacrifice fly plated a fourth run and Law followed with an RBI double to scoring Brujan.
York, who entered the game allowing just 12 hits over 22 innings of work, held the Lake Monsters to just five hits over his five innings including three strikeouts. Vermont got a one-out Anthony Churlin double and James Terrell single in the third, but York got Ryan Gridley to hit into a 4-6-3 double play to end the threat.
The Renegades added an unearned run in the fifth on a two-out throwing error as Mendoza ended his night with six runs allowed (five earned) on six hits over 4 2/3 innings. Hudson Valley scored again in the sixth inning on a Law RBI single to left for a 7-0 lead.
The Lake Monsters averted their first shuout of the season with three runs in the eighth inning on a Greg Deichmann RBI single and Payton Squier 2-run single, but left two runners on in both the eighth and ninth inning to lose for the second straight game for the first time since June 26-28.
Anthony Churlin went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and Deichmann had two hits for Vermont (17-11), which saw their lead in the Stedler Division shrink to 2 1/2 games over the Connecticut Tigers. Jean Ruiz tossed three scoreless innings of relief for the Lake Monsters.
Vermont will look to salvage one of the three-game series against the Renegades when the Lake Monsters wrap up the six-game homestand on Wednesday night starting at 7:05 pm. It will be Military Appreciation Night at the ballpark and the first 1,000 fans will receive a free Lake Monsters adult size camo jersey.