Ryan Mullins Leads the New Britain Rock Cats to a 7-0 Shutout of the Binghamton Mets
Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 12:57PM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com – New Britain, CT – Ryan Mullins saved
his best performance for his final start of the year as he fired a complete
game shutout to blank Binghamton, 7-0.
Mullins (9-9, 4.31) limited the B-Mets,
who are battling for the final playoff spot in the Northern Division,
to seven hits. He struck out seven while walking none in nine innings
before a crowd of 8030, the second largest crowd in Rock Cats’ history.
The largest mark came earlier this season when 8,115 fans streamed through
the gates.
The Rock Cats took a 2-0 lead in the
first inning on back-to-back RBI doubles by Dustin Martin and Brain
Dinkelman.
In the fifth, Steve Tolleson – who was named the Can’t Beat Bernie’s Player of the Year before to the game on Saturday night – hit solo shot of the Bernie’s sign on the scoreboard to put the Rock Cats ahead, 3-0. Danny Valencia added an RBI single in the inning.
Valencia came through with another RBI
single in the seventh and Martin added another RBI double to extend
the lead, 7-0. Tolleson added an RBI double in the eighth inning. Martin
finished the night with a game-high three hits.
Jose Sanchez (13-7, 3.83) allowed nine hits and four runs to suffer the loss.
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