L.I. Ducks: Flock Wins Eleventh in a Row

From the desk of: THE WEBBED SPIKES NINE

Ducks lead series; 1-0

I - LID 4; YRK 0

York Revolution

vs.

Long Island Ducks

FROM

Bethpage Ballpark

FLOCK CONTINUE TO ROCK

Making his eighth start after being pressed into the starting rotation, Vin Mazzaro pitches the Ducks to an opening game victory over the Revs at Bethpage Ballpark.  Vin faces 22 batters, throwing 95 pitches with 64 going for strikes.  He allows no runs on four hits and no walks with nine strikeouts for his ninth victory of the season against four losses.  York starter Mitch Atkins also pitches well in a losing effort, allowing one earned run on six hits and three walks with three strikeouts through six innings.

Long Island opens the scoring in the first on Lew Ford's RBI single scoring Rey Fuentes from second.  However the Duck inflict most of their damage against reliever Joe Jones in the seventh.  After singles from Lew Ford and Hector Sanchez, third baseman Deibinson Romero clears the bases with his tenth home run of the season.  The surging Lew Ford is 2 for 3 with an RBI, raising his average to .311 for the season.  Ducks relievers Felix Carvallo, Myles Smith, and Ismael Cabrera, join forces in allowing no runs on just two hits and two walks with four strikeouts to complete Monday's 4-0 whitewashing of the Revolution.

The Ducks are coming off series sweeps against the Somerset Patriots, the Barnstormers at Lancaster, and the Skeeters.  Monday's win over the York marks a season high eleventh straight victories.  They are to date undefeated in September and now lead the second-half Liberty Division standing by six games over second place New Britain.  The High Point Rockers have faded of late, dropping down to third place, one game under the .500 mark.

At 79-48 Long Island owns the Atlantic League's best overall record with 13 games left in the regular season.

I still do not know how they're doing it.  This is a remarkable run and a remarkable regular season.