Bowie Baysox Edge Harrisburg Senators 8-7 - AA, Eastern League

MLN - THE RAW FEED - www.mlntherawfeed.com – Harrisburg, PA - Lou Montanez and Nolan Reimold hit two homeruns apiece and Brad Bergesen earned his ninth win of the year as the Baysox edged the Senators 8-7 in Harrisburg Tuesday night. Bergesen worked 6.2 innings and was charged with four runs on four hits, but two of the runs were unearned. He walked three batters and struck out seven on his way to the victory. His nine wins are even more impressive considering Tuesday was only his 13th start of the season for Bowie; he began the year with Class-A Frederick.

The Baysox scored in the top of the first when Lou Montanez drew a two-out walk and Nolan Reimold drove him in with a double to right field.

Bowie put up four more runs in the top of the third. Lou Montanez hit a solo homerun to center field and Nolan Reimold blasted a solo shot of his own to left. It was the second night in a row the two have gone back-to-back; they did it Monday against Adrian Alaniz. Tuesday was also the third straight game that Reimold and Montanez have each hit homeruns. Montanez has propelled himself into first place in the Eastern League with 18 homeruns thanks to his streak, passing teammate Jeff Nettles with his solo shot in the third for number 17. Matt Wieters stepped in after the homeruns and struck a double to center. Jeff Nettles pulled a base hit through the hole at shortstop and Wieters moved to third. Mike Rodriguez walked to load the bases and Brian Peterson struck out. With two down, Blake Davis smacked a single to right field to score Wieters and Nettles, increasing the Bowie lead to 5-0.

The Baysox added another run in the top of the fourth when Lou Montanez got a one-out single and Nolan Reimold walked to move him to second. With two away, Jeff Nettles hit a single to right field to plate Montanez and the Baysox took a 6-0 lead. They pushed the lead to seven in the top of the sixth on another solo homerun by Nolan Reimold, giving him four homeruns in his last three games.

The Senators finally got on the board against Bergesen in the bottom of the sixth. Seth Bynum led off with a double to center field and Bergesen threw a wild pitch that allowed Bynum to take third with no outs. William Bergolla hit a sacrifice fly to left field to cut the Baysox lead to 7-1. 

Bergesen got into trouble in the bottom of the seventh. After retiring the first batter of the inning, Leonard Davis hit a solo homerun to left-center. Bergesen walked Javi Herrera and Garrett Guzman hit a ground ball to second base that Carlos Rojas could not handle. It was a fielding error for Rojas and the Senators had runners on first and second with one away. Bergesen got Seth Bynum to fly out but walked Mike Daniel to load the bases with two outs. Bergesen hit William Bergolla with a pitch to score Herrera and the night was over for the Bowie starter. Kam Mickolio came on with the bases loaded and two outs and walked Bill Rhinehart to bring in Guzman. Mickolio settled down and got Luis Jimenez on strikes to retire the side, but the Senators had cut the Bowie lead to 7-4.

Lou Montanez picked up homerun number 18 in the top of the eighth. It was another solo shot and his fourth homerun in the last three games also.

The Senators refused to go down quietly, grinding out another rally in the bottom of the eighth. Leonard Davis hit a one-out single to right field and Mickolio hit Javi Herrera with a pitch to put runners on first and second. Garrett Guzman hit a single through the hole at shortstop to load the bases for the second straight inning. Devin Ivany came in to pinch-hit for Seth Bynum and Mickolio hit him with a pitch to bring Davis in to score. Gerardo Casadiego came on to relieve Mickolio and he promptly walked Mike Daniel, allowing Herrera to score and cutting the Bowie lead to 8-6. William Bergolla came up with the bases still loaded and one out and smoked a base hit to left field. Garrett Guzman came in to score but the ball was hit too hard for any more runs to come in. Bill Rhinehart came up with a chance to give his team the lead, but he hit a hard ground ball to first that Nettles fielded and fired to the plate. Matt Wieters stepped on the plate and got the ball back to first in time to get Rhinehart for the inning-ending 3-2-3 double play.

Julio Manon came in and retired all three batters he faced, striking out two, to earn his 19th save of the year. With the victory, the Baysox improve to 48-36 on the year. They will go for their fourth straight win Wednesday night in Harrisburg with RHP David Hernandez (5-1, 2.83 ERA) going up against Senators RHP Craig Stammen (0-1, 2.70 ERA).

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