PCL Baseball: Tucson silences reeling Isotopes
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Sidewinders smash five HRs, no-hit Albuquerque through seven innings
5/4/2008 - 5/5/08
ALBUQUERQUE — Billy Buckner pitched seven no-hit innings, Donnie Kelly homered twice, and Tucson feasted on Albuquerque pitching yet again in an 11-2 victory Sunday afternoon in Pacific Coast League baseball at Isotopes Park.The Sidewinders surpassed 10 runs for the third successive game — all wins — against the Isotopes. They did it with 16 hits, including five home runs, in the penultimate game of the series.
Alex Romero and Trot Nixon hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning, Kelly added a solo home run in the fourth and a three-run home run in the fifth, and Jamie Whitesell cleared the left-center field fence for a three-run home run in the eighth.
Tucson led 11-0, with the first eight runs coming off starter Dallas Trahern, before the Isotopes scored their runs on John Gall's two-out single in the bottom of the ninth.
Manager Dean Treanor closed the clubhouse immediately following the loss, which was the fourth straight, for a team meeting. Not since a 7-3 win over Las Vegas on April 28 have the Isotopes allowed fewer than 10 runs.
Right-hander Frankie De La Cruz gets the start today for Albuquerque. De La Cruz is 3-1, but has a 9.00 earned-run-average. Juan Gutierrez (1-4) takes the mound for the Sidewinders.
Gutierrez has a tough act to follow. Buckner retired 21 straight and was a walk away from perfection through seven innings. Jason Wood led off the second with a walk, but that was erased when Dallas McPherson grounded into a double play.
Tim Raines Jr.'s sliding catch of Andrew Beattie's sinking line drive in the seventh was the lone lump in Buckner's throat.
Until the eighth.
That's when Wood lined a 1-1 pitch into right field for a single and McPherson followed with a single to right. But Kelly started a double play and Dante Brinkely ground out to end the threat.
Buckner (1-3) left after the eighth.
UP NEXT
Tucson Sidewinders (10-21) vs. Albuquerque Isotopes (15-14)
When: Today, 12:05 p.m.
Where: Isotopes Park
Probable pitchers: RHP Juan Gutierrez (1-4, 4.01) vs. Frankie De La Cruz (3-1, 9.00)
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