Salem Walloped by Wilmington 16-1 Saturday

WILMINGTON, DE (Saturday, July 15) - The Salem Red Sox fell behind by five runs before recording an out and never recovered Saturday night, enduring a 16-1 drubbing at the hands of the Wilmington Blue Rocks at Frawley Stadium.
Salem (13-10, 45-46) again squandered a chance to move above .500, as they haven't gotten above even since June 2. Wilmington (12-9, 43-48) scorched the Sox a night after they endured a 10-1 drubbing at the hands of the Red Sox hitters, setting a new record for margin of victory against Salem. Bobby Dalbec provided Salem's only run of the game with a solo dinger in the fourth inning, his seventh homer of the month and league-best 22nd of the year.

The Blue Rocks pounded away from the get-go against Salem starting pitcher Daniel Gonzalez (L, 7-4). Blake Perkins, Nick Heath and D.J. Burt all singled to load the bases with nobody out. Gonzalez walked Gabriel Cancel to score Perkins, allowed an RBI single to Meibrys Viloria to score Heath, and surrendered an RBI single to Travis Jones to score Burt, all while keeping the bases loaded. Gonzalez plunked Rudy Martin, scoring Cancel, and allowed an RBI single by Angelo Castellano to plate Viloria. That would do it for Gonzalez, as reliever Algenis Martinez came in for Salem. Vance Vizcaino lifted a sacrifice fly to right to score Jones, but Martin was cut down at the plate trying to score when the throw to third got away from Dalbec. Martinez fanned Perkins to end the frame with Salem trailing 6-0. Wilmington tacked on another in the bottom of the second inning, as Burt and Cancel cracked consecutive two-out doubles to extend the lead to 7-0.
The Sox got on the board in the top of the fourth against Wilmington starter Ofreidy Gomez (W, 3-8). On a 1-2 count, Dalbec unleashed his potent swing and sent the pitch screaming over the left-field wall for a mighty solo homer to cut Wilmington's lead to 7-1.
The Blue Rocks earned the run back in the bottom of the inning. With Burt at the plate and two out, Cancel hit another double up the left field line to score the runner and run the margin to 8-1. Wilmington kept pouring it on, plating two more in the bottom of the fifth on RBI singles by Perkins and Heath, and a solo homer by Viloria off Joan Martinez in the sixth made it an 11-1 margin. Catcher Jordan Procyshen entered to pitch the eighth, giving up five runs to complete the drubbing. The Sox mustered only one hit off Blue Rocks reliever Carter Hope (S, 3) in his four innings on the mound.
Gonzalez was shelled for six runs on six hits and a walk without recording an out. Algenis Martinez surrendered four runs on six hits in a season-long 4.2 innings of action, walking one and fanning three. Joan Martinez gave up a run on two hits and two walks in 2.1 frames of work. Procyshen surrendered five runs (four earned) on five hits and two walks in his emergency relief inning.
The Sox will look to reboot in the Sunday matinee game, with righty Kevin McAvoy making a spot start for Salem against Wilmington right-hander Gerson Garabito. First pitch at Frawley Stadium is scheduled for 1:35 p.m., and the pregame show with Ben Gellman and Suzie Cool begins at 1:15 p.m. on the Red Sox broadcast network.