JETHAWKS PLUG HOLE IN ROTATION WITH THREE CANDIDATES AT ONCE : JETHAWKS 7, MODESTO 4.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer The sore spot in the JetHawks' pitching rotation came through Saturday night. Joe Victery, making his first start of the season, combined with two others who held starting jobs at one time, Kevin Gryboski Kevin John Gryboski (born November 15, 1973 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, U.S.), is a Major League Baseball player with the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. Gryboski, a right-handed pitcher, was acquired by the Atlanta Braves in January 2002 and traded to Texas in July of 2005 for and Aaron Scheffer, to lead the JetHawks past the A's 7-4 at John Thurman Field John Thurman Field is a stadium in Modesto, California. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Modesto Nuts minor league baseball team. It was built in 1955. It holds 4,000 people. . Victery's performance was an effective one. The right-hander tossed four solid innings. The only pitch that hurt Victery was lined over the fence in Verb 1. fence in - enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard" fence inclose, shut in, close in, enclose - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" 2. dead center by Juan Dilone for a solo home run in the second. Victery allowed five hits without issuing a walk and struck out seven. Gryboski, who has been hit hard all season, provided 1-2/3 innings and gave up two runs (one unearned) before leaving the game after he was struck by Tim Jones' line drive. Scheffer, a part-time starter who like Gryboski has struggled, took the mound and held the A's to a single run over 2-2/3 innings. Rafael Rivera struck out the last two A's and recorded his second save. JETHAWKS UPDATE Dazzling Denny: The restoration of JetHawks reliever Denny Bonilla continued Friday night when the left-hander tossed three perfect innings in the 5-4 loss at San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. . Bonilla, a 23-year-old from the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (dəmĭn`ĭkən), republic (2005 est. pop. 8,950,000), 18,700 sq mi (48,442 sq km), West Indies, on the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola. The capital and largest city is Santo Domingo. , has allowed just one earned run earned run n. Baseball A run scored without the aid of an error, used in computing earned run averages. Noun 1. earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team in his past 8-2/3 innings to drop his ERA from 7.90 to 5.24. In that same span, Bonilla has 17 strikeouts. Today's pitching matchup: The JetHawks' Rob Luce (5-1, 1.90) faces the A's Scott Rivette (4-2, 2.78) in a 1:05 p.m game at John Thurman Field in Modesto. CAPTION(S): Box Box: JETHAWKS UPDATE (see text) |
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