MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com-Jacksonville, FL --- Travis Wood hurled his first career complete game, leading Carolina to a 2-0 victory over the Jacksonville Suns at the Baseball Grounds.

Wood (W, 5-3), who won his fifth straight decision, matched his career-high with 11 strikeouts and issued no walks in outdueling the Suns' Graham Taylor (L, 2-5). Wood and Taylor battled to a 0-0 tie until Zack Cozart connected on a 2-1 pitch from Taylor in the seventh inning for his fourth home run in five games. Todd Frazier added a run of insurance, belting his fourth homer of the year in the ninth inning.

But the story was the 107-pitch effort by Wood, who lowered his league-leading ERA from 1.38 to 1.22 in authoring his first career complete game in his 88th start. Wood retired the game's final 17 batters he faced after an infield single by Andy Jenkins in the fourth inning. The Suns (27-31) had only two other hits in the game, a single in the first by Ryan Klosterman and a third-inning double by Brad Davis.

Cozart and Frazier each had two of Carolina's five hits in the victory, as the Mudcats (32-25) closed to within one game of first place Huntsville. The Stars dropped their doubleheader opener on Sunday afternoon 9-6, and were tied with the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx in the eighth inning of game two at the time of this release. Carolina has 12 games remaining in the first half.

Jordan Smith starts the series' fourth game on Monday night at 7:05 PM ET.
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Carolina Mudcats (32-25) 2, Jacksonville Suns (27-31) 0
June 7, 2009
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 5 0
Jacksonville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0





Carolina AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG
Henry, RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .294
Heisey, CF 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 .370
Alonso, 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .214
Frazier, LF 3 1 2 1 1 0 0 .340
Francisco, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 .246
Cozart, SS 4 1 2 1 0 0 2 .283
Eymann, 2B 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 .264
Denove, C 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 .234
Wood, P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .188
Totals 30 2 5 2 2 4 9 .265


BATTING
2B: Cozart (17, Peterson, M).
HR: Cozart (6, 7th inning off Taylor, 0 on, 1 out), Frazier (4, 9th inning off Peterson, M, 0 on, 1 out).
TB: Frazier 5; Cozart 6; Denove.
RBI: Cozart (29), Frazier (32).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Eymann 2; Heisey; Henry.
S: Wood 2.
Team RISP: 0-for-6.
Team LOB: 5.

FIELDING
DP: (Francisco-Eymann-Alonso).

Jacksonville AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG
Scott, LF 4 0 0 0 0 2 1 .281
Klosterman, 2B 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 .258
Jenkins, 1B 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 .289
Cousins, CF 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 .215
Stanton, RF 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 .200
Torres, SS 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 .254
Mitchell, 3B 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 .221
Peterson, M, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Davis, C 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 .200
Taylor, P 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Olenberger, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
De La Cruz, C, 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .261
Totals 29 0 3 0 0 11 5 .247


BATTING
2B: Davis (7, Wood).
TB: Klosterman; Jenkins; Davis 2.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Scott.
GIDP: Jenkins.
Team RISP: 0-for-2.
Team LOB: 2.


Carolina IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Wood (W, 5-3) 9.0 3 0 0 0 11 0 1.22
Totals 9.0 3 0 0 0 11 0 3.34


Jacksonville IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Taylor (L, 2-5) 7.0 3 1 1 2 2 1 3.61
Olenberger 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.88
Peterson, M 1.0 2 1 1 0 2 1 3.43
Totals 9.0 5 2 2 2 4 2 3.56

Pitches-strikes: Wood 107-75, Taylor 96-57, Olenberger 7-4, Peterson, M 16-13.
Groundouts-flyouts: Wood 7-9, Taylor 6-13, Olenberger 1-2, Peterson, M 0-1.
Batters faced: Wood 29, Taylor 26, Olenberger 3, Peterson, M 5.
Umpires: HP: Craig Barron. 1B: Karl Best. 2B: . 3B: Sean Barber.
Weather: 79 degrees, cloudy.
Wind: 7 mph, Out to LF.
T: 1:52 (1:34 delay).
Att: 3,078.

Compiled by MLB Advanced Media

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