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| IRONPIGS DROP SERIES FINALE TO INDY 2-1 |
| Indians' Taubenheim Blanks Lehigh Valley Over 8.0 Innings |
| Indians righty Ty Taubenheim (4-8) made sure he wasn’t going to lose two times in less than two weeks to the IronPigs by throwing 8.0 shutout innings in Indianapolis’ 2-1 win over Lehigh Valley in the finale of their four-game series. Taubenheim, who lost a 7-3 decision to the IronPigs on May 27 from Coca-Cola Park after allowing four runs on six hits over 5.0 innings of work, only allowed four hits and one walk in his longest outing of the 2008 season. |
| Brian Mazone (6-4) took the hard-luck loss having allowed just three hits and two runs, one of which earned, in 6.0 innings for Lehigh Valley who fell to 8-27 this season away from Coca-Cola Park. The IronPigs have yet to win a road series as a franchise. The team did achieve their first season series victory since the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre days by virtue of taking five of eight meetings from Indianapolis this season. |
| The Indians scored all the runs they would need in the 2nd and 3rd innings of Friday night’s contest. Brian Bixler recorded and infield single and then stole second to get into scoring position with one out against Mazone in the second. He would come into score the first run of the game on a throwing error by Jason Jaramillo to make it a 1-0 game. |
| In the very next inning, Nyjer Morgan lofted a single to left leading off the third and was moved to third base on a ground-rule double that bounced into the seats in left-centerfield. Next batter Steve Pearce floated a sacrifice fly to left that was plenty deep enough to score the speedy Morgan with the Tribe’s only other run in the ballgame. |
| The IronPigs were frustrated by Taubenheim through the first 8.0 innings of the game. In the 1st inning, Rich Thompson singled, stole second and reached third on a sacrifice but Lehigh Valley could not bring home the runner on third with one out in the inning. In the 3rd, Mazone laced a one out double which was followed by a walk to Rich Thompson but Taubenheim again pitched himself out of the jam by issuing a fly ball to Mike Rouse and striking out Jaramillo. |
| Lehigh Valley finally put a run across once the former Blue Jays hurler exited in the 9th lined a double to left to extend his team-high hitting streak to 13 games. He took third base on a ground out and then scored on a sharp single to center by Jon Knott to make it a 2-1 game with one out in the 9th. With the tying run on base, Chavez struck out Brennan King and then got T.J. Bohn on a grounder back to the mound to preserve the win for the Indians. Indy salvaged the split but is sill 19-29 since beginning the year 11-4. |
| The IronPigs will now head home for their longest homestand of the season in which they will play 11-games over the next 11 days against Rochester, Buffalo and Pawtucket from Coca-Cola Park. The homestand begins Saturday, June 7 at 7:05 p.m. when the Rochester Red Wings come to Allentown for a three-game series. The first 2,500 children 12 and under will receive an IronPigs t-shirt courtesy of Coca-Cola. |
| Matt Provence and Jon Schaeffer will have the call on the IronPigs Radio Network beginning at 6:35 p.m. with the AT&T pre-game show on flagship station 90.3 FM WXLV, 95.1 HD-2 WZZO, “The Digital Home of the IronPigs,” and AM 1410 WLSH. The game will also be televised on the IronPigs Television Network powered by Service Electric Cable TV & Communications featuring WFMZ-TV’s Troy Hein and former Philadelphia Phillies’ All-Star Ricky Bottalico. |
| Single-game tickets, mini-plan packages and group tickets for the IronPigs inaugural season, presented by Capital BlueCross, are on sale now and can be purchased at the Coca-Cola Park Ticket Office, online at www.ironpigsbaseball.com or by calling (610) 841-PIGS. |
