Pitch By Pitch

For the second night in a row, the State College Spikes had a late-inning comeback that just fell short. The Spikes really didn’t deserve to be in this game, though. Outhit 13-6, the Spikes were able to take advantage of 5 Mahoning Valley errors, including 4 by the second-baseman Lurvin Basabe.

Kyle McPherson struggled in 4.2 innings, giving up 10 hits and 6 runs (4 earned). He did strike out 6. Zach Foster pitched 3.1 nice innings in relief, giving up just 3 hits and 1 run. He walked 3 batters.

From the plate, David Rubinstein and Miguel Mendez were both 2-3, and they each scored a run.

The teams play game 2 of their 3 game series tonight at Mahoning Valley.

     Game of 6/22/2009 -- State College at Mahoning Valley (N)

  State College      AB  R  H RBI    Mahoning Valley    AB  R  H RBI  
Holt B, 2b            5  0  0  0   Basabe L, 2b          4  2  2  0   
Vasquez A, 3b         5  0  1  0   Greenwell B, lf       5  1  2  1   
Hernandez J, lf       3  0  1  0   Smit J, cf            4  0  1  0   
Morgan K, ph          1  0  0  0   Henry J, cf           1  0  1  0   
Byler J, 1b           2  1  0  0   Head S, rf            4  1  1  1   
Irvine P, dh          3  1  0  0   Palincsar T, rf       0  0  0  0   
Rubinstein D, rf      3  2  2  0   Allman J, dh          3  1  1  2   
Saukko K, cf          3  1  1  1   Bellows K, 3b         4  1  2  0   
Mendez M, c           3  1  2  2   Vera R, 1b            4  1  1  0   
Summerlin T, ss       4  0  0  1   Smith K, ss           4  0  2  2   
                                   Chen C, c             3  0  0  0   
                     -- -- -- --                        -- -- -- --
                     32  6  7  4                        36  7 13  6   

State College    000 000 420 --  6
Mahoning Valley  310 030 00x --  7

  State College        IP  H  R ER BB SO
McPherson K (L)       4.2 10  6  4  0  6
Foster Z              3.1  3  1  1  3  1

  Mahoning Valley      IP  H  R ER BB SO
Guilmet P             4.0  2  0  0  2  5
Fonseca G (W)         3.0  3  4  2  3  1
Urena J               1.0  2  2  2  0  0
Grening B             1.0  0  0  0  0  1

E -- Saukko K, Summerlin T, Basabe L 4, Bellows K
DP -- State College 1, Mahoning Valley 2
LOB -- State College 7, Mahoning Valley 8
2B -- Allman J, Vera R, Mendez M
3B -- Basabe L
HR -- Head S
CS -- Vasquez A, Henry J
SF -- Saukko K
HBP -- by Urena J (Byler J)
T -- 2:47
A -- 2696