MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com -Manchester, NH-Marc Rzepczynski, David Shinskie and Nate Starner combined on a five-hit shutout, and Adam Calderone and Brian Dopirak both launched their fourth home runs of the season in the New Hampshire Fisher Cats' 5-0 victory over the New Britain Rock Cats Wednesday night at Merchantsauto.com Stadium.

 

Rzepczynski (4-1) went the first five innings, holding New Britain (7-11) to four hits and three walks to notch his fourth win, tied for the Eastern League lead. He fanned eight more batters, raising his league-leading strikeout total to 35 on the season.

 

Shinskie turned in three innings before Starner closed out the gem for New Hampshire (12-7), which snapped a two-game losing streak by turning in its league-best fourth shutout of the season.

 

The Fisher Cats grabbed a 1-0 lead against losing pitcher Ryan Mullins in the bottom of the first inning when Luis Sanchez (2-for-5, 2B, SB, 2 R) and Brad Emaus (1-for-4, 2B, SB, RBI) hit back-to-back doubles.

 

Calderone (2-for-4, HR) led off the bottom of the third with his fourth homer of the season, a solo blast off Mullins (0-4) that landed on the access road in right, giving the Fisher Cats a 2-0 lead. Later in the inning, Sanchez singled, stole second and scored on Dopirak's double to deep centerfield for a 3-0 lead.

 

Mullins allowed four runs on eight hits in 4.2 innings to drop his third decision to New Hampshire this season. The southpaw fanned six and walked one.

 

Al Quintana (2-for-4, RBI) drove in his first career Fisher Cats' RBI with a bases-loaded infield single in the bottom of the fifth inning against Zach Ward, plating David Cooper (1-for-4, R) and raising the lead to 4-0.

 

Leading off the seventh, Dopirak (2-for-4, HR, 2B, 2 RBI) capped the scoring by unloading on Ward's 3-2 pitch for his fourth home run of the season, a solo shot over the rightfield wall.

 

The Fisher Cats send right-hander Rei Gonzalez (1-0, 1.37) to the mound for the rubber match of the three-game series on Thursday morning at 11:05am against New Britain right-hander Cole Devries (1-1, 5.02). The BayRing Pre-Game Show begins at 10:45am on the WGIR Fisher Cats Radio Network with Bob Lipman and Mike Murphy.

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