July 29, 200620 yr no-no on the no-no... Isotopes Edge Zephyrs 3-2 07/23/2006 12:01 AM - Third baseman Mike Kinkade came through with an RBI single in the eighth to break a 2-2 tie and help send the Albuquerque Isotopes (50-52) to a 3-2 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs (51-51) Sunday evening at Zephyr Field. The win, coupled with last night?s triumph, gives the Isotopes their first back-to-back road victories since June 5-6 when Albuquerque took two in a row in Nashville. With the game knotted at 2-2 in the eighth inning, pinch hitter Edgar Gonzalez led off the frame with a single off of Z?s reliever Chris Schroder and advanced to second on a passed ball by catcher Alberto Castillo. After a strikeout and a groundout by Robert Andino that moved Gonzalez to third, Kinkade drove a two-out, 0-2 pitch right up the middle to score Gonzalez with the go-ahead run, giving the ?Topes a 3-2 lead. It was a lead that would be tested, as reliever J.B. Miadich entered in the eighth and quickly got the first two outs before Marlon Byrd sent a fly deep to right field that looked ear-marked for extra-bases. Rightfielder Matt Cepicky had other ideas, however, making a spectacular snow-cone catch after diving head first on the right field warning track to end the inning. Closer Brad Clontz then came on in the ninth and, after allowing a one-out single by Brandon Larson, who was pinch-run for by Kenny Kelly, coaxed Tyrell Godwin into a meek pop-up that second baseman Jason Wood corralled in foul territory and Castillo into a groundout to Andino that ended the game, giving Clontz his PCL-leading 16th save of the season. Early on, the game had all the makings of a classic pitcher?s duel, as starter Yusmeiro Petit cruised through four scoreless innings before New Orleans plated the game?s first run on a bold squeeze play. With Larson on third and one out in the bottom of the fifth, Castillo bunted back to the pitcher right as Larson broke for home. Petit fielded the ball but his throw to the plate to get Larson was too late and the Z?s had a 1-0 lead. Albuquerque stormed right back in the top of the sixth, when Wood doubled on a two-out bullet to right that scored Andino to tie the game at one. Chris Aguila then followed with a single plating Wood to put the ?Topes on top for the first time 2-1. The Zephyrs answered, however, in the home half of the sixth on a double by Admin Broadway that scored George Lombard to tie the game at 2-2 and set up Kinkade?s late-inning heroics. Reliever Ross Wolf (3-1) earned the victory after coming on for Petit in the sixth and pitching a perfect inning and a third. Schroder (2-1) suffered the loss.
July 31, 200620 yr Petit pitched well the other night, went 7IP, 1ER, lowered his era to 4.24. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/mil...342&t=g_box
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