Morning Baseball In Delmarva
May 16th, 2012The BlueClaws will finish up their three-game series at Delmarva this morning (10:35 first pitch) with LHP Mario Hollands on the mound, making his first start of the season.
Here are today’s game notes.
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From Delmarva…The BlueClaws are 33-17 against Delmarva over the last three seasons including 20-9 at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium…The BlueClaws will play 13 games are Perdue Stadium this year (1-1) and Delmarva will come to Lakewood three times for nine total games…Delmarva will be in Lakewood next week and then the teams will play six straight days (three in Delmarva and three in Lakewood) between June 8-13.
With a Win…The BlueClaws would take two of three in the series with a win…It would be just third series win of the season (4/28-30 vs Greenville and 4/12-15 vs Hagerstown)…The BlueClaws are just 4-14 away from home, a road record better than just West Virginia (4-15) and Rome (4-15) in the South Atlantic League this year.
Welcome Back…1B Kelly Dugan (.254 with 2 HRs and 9 RBIs) was activated off the disabled list Monday and went 2-3 and scored twice on Tuesday night…It was Dugan’s 4th multi-hit game of the season…Dugan had been out since spraining his right ankle on April 20th at Hagerstown…C John Hill was transferred to Clearwater.
H-Mart…Harold Martinez had a two-run triple on Tuesday, his first RBIs since May 3rd and his 3rd and 4th since joining the BlueClaws on April 24th from extended spring training…The Phllies 2nd round pick last year, Martinez is the first BlueClaw ever from the University of Miami…Philadelphia had not drafted a Miami player since RHP Dave Gil in the 7th round of the 1999 draft…Pat Burrell was the top pick of the 1998 draft by the Phillies out of Miami.

April showers and May flowers normally mean baseball season. That’s no different this year, with the BlueClaws having already played 18 of their 70 home games. But one ballpark fixture has had somewhat of a lighter schedule thus far this season – PA announcer Kevin Clark, for whom April showers and May flowers have meant additional time at the ice-level.
BlueClaws pitching coach Les Lancaster sat down for an interview prior to Monday’s game at Delmarva.
The BlueClaws will be the next team to take a crack at Dylan Bundy, the 4th overall pick in last year’s MLB amateur draft, who has not allowed a run in 20 innings pitching for Delmarva (2 hits, 32 Ks). The Stat of the Night in the Delmarva game notes is that including his final year of high school, Bundy has struck out 191 hitters in his last 91 innings. He has strikeouts in 18 of his 20 innings.
Lakewood left-handed pitcher Lino Martinez was named Phillies Minor League Pitcher of the Week, the Phillies announced on Monday.
Looking at Jake Diekman’s numbers with the BlueClaws in 2009, one might see a somewhat pedestrian season, a 2-0 record and a 4.09 ERA with an opponents batting average of .266. But you have to look a little deeper to see what was truly a remarkable turnaruond for the lefty.
Today is Bark in the Park, which means there will be a few hundred dogs at the game today, taking in the BlueClaws and Greensboro Grasshoppers at 4:05.
On April 28th, Maikel Franco’s game-winning single in the bottom of the 10th inning scored Brian Pointer and gave the BlueClaws their first walk-off win of the season.