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Walks haunt Hogs
Winston-Salem loses series opener against Kinston 8-5
Journal photo by Traci White
Clevelan Santeliz did not make it out of the third inning for the Warthogs and suffered his sixth loss of the season.
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Published: August 26, 2008
Playing their most important series of the season, the Winston-Salem Warthogs got off on the wrong foot last night with an 8-5 loss to the Kinston Indians.
The Warthogs are 2½ games ahead of the Indians in the race for the wild-card playoff spot in the Carolina League's Southern Division, but their five-game winning streak is finished.
The Indians, meanwhile, snapped their eight-game losing streak thanks in large part to wildness from the Warthogs' pitchers.
Starting pitcher Clevelan Santeliz was wild during his short night of work. He had five walks in 22/3 innings that helped the Indians score five runs. Santeliz, along with three other pitchers, combined to walk nine.
Despite the race for the wild-card heating up, just over 100 fans were on hand for the first pitch. The game was delayed for 15 minutes to let a passing shower come through, but there was little atmosphere despite this being the last series for the Warthogs at historic Ernie Shore Field.
"Bottom line is you can't give up those freebees," Manager Tim Blackwell of the Warthogs said about the walks. "That just puts you in a hole and you rarely recover from that. We had nine walks tonight and they scored five runs off them so that's your ballgame right there.…
"It was obvious Santeliz had no command whatsoever. Facts are facts and that puts him behind the eight ball when he walks guys like that."
The Warthogs were behind 6-2 but scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth. Dale Mollenhauer led off with an infield single and advanced to second on a throwing error by shortstop Carlos Rivero. C.J. Retherford walked and after an out, John Shelby's single scored Mollenhauer and Retherford. Later Salvador Sanchez singled to score Shelby and the Warthogs trailed 6-5.
But reliever Matt Zaleski fell into the same trap as Santeliz and had trouble finding the plate.
In the seventh Zaleski walked three and that led to two more runs by the Indians. Zaleski was replaced with two outs but it took Michael Dubee one pitch to get out of the jam as Jared Goedert grounded out to Dubee.
Retherford said: "I think with the day off (on Sunday) everyone was kind of still out of it. We kind of came out a little flat. We're just going to have to come out and play better and move on. We just have to get over it."
The Warthogs can clinch the wild-card spot by winning the next three games of the series, something that Retherford said can happen.
"We know we can beat these guys and we have to come out and throw strikes and do the little things right," Retherford said. "That's what we've been doing is the little things right but we didn't do that in this game."
The Indians got key hits up and down the lineup, led by first basement Jerad Head, who was 4 for 5 with two RBIs. Niuman Romero also had two RBIs as the Indians banged out 12 hits.
Carlton Smith, the Indians' starting pitcher, picked up the win and improved to 11-6. He went five innings, allowed seven hits and five runs with three strikeouts. Josh Judy was outstanding in middle relief, going two innings and allowing one hit while Josh Tomlin pitched the eighth inning.
Shutting down the Warthogs in the bottom of the ninth was Vincent Pestano, who got his eighth save of the season.
The Warthogs managed nine hits but shortstop Greg Paiml had his 10-game hitting streak snapped. Shelby led the Warthogs, going 3 for 4 with two RBIs and his 32nd stolen base of the season.
Blackwell said that even though his team seemingly has an advantage, that doesn't mean much.
"There's no such thing as a cushion," Blackwell said. "We have an opportunity and we have to take advantage of that opportunity, but all season long we are a club that doesn't like prosperity. What we get we like to give back so I guess we are good republicans and democrats."
The four-game series will continue tonight with Anthony Carter (6-4) starting on the mound for the Warthogs and Shawn Nottingham (2-4) starting for the Indians.
■ John Dell can be reached at 727-4081 or at jdell@wsjournal.com.
KIN. ab r h bi W-S ab r h bi
Mntero rf 4 1 0 0 Rthrfrd 3b 4 1 0 0
Rmero 2b 5 1 2 2 Prshna 1b 5 0 0 0
Sntana dh 3 2 1 1 Shlby cf 4 1 3 2
Gdert 3b 4 1 1 1 Harris lf 3 0 0 0
Rvero ss 3 0 0 1 Snchz rf 4 1 2 1
Drennen lf 5 0 1 0 Bnvchio dh 4 1 2 1
Head 1b 5 2 4 2 Mranda pr 0 0 0 0
Juhl c 4 0 2 1 Paiml ss 4 0 0 0
Pena cf 4 1 1 0 Hrndz c 4 0 1 1
Mlnhr 2b 4 1 1 0
Totals 32 8 12 8 Totals 35 5 9 5
Kinston 104 100 200 -- 8
Win.-Salem 020 030 000 -- 5
E--Rivero, Mollenhauer. DP--Winston-Salem 1. LOB--Kinston 13, Winston-Salem 6. 2B--Goedert, Head, Pena, Bonvechio, Hernandez. 3B--Head, Shelby. SAC--Montero. SF--Rivero. SB--Montero, Santana, Head, Shelby, Sanchez.
Kinston IP H R ER BB SO
Smith W,11-6 5 7 5 5 2 3
Judy 2 1 0 0 0 2
Tomlin 1 1 0 0 0 2
Pestano S,8 1 0 0 0 0 1
Winston-Salem IP H R ER BB SO
Santeliz L,3-6 22/3 4 5 5 5 2
Spurgeon 21/3 3 1 0 1 1
Zaleski 12/3 3 2 2 3 4
Dubee 21/3 2 0 0 0 1
WP--Tomlin, Santeliz. HBP--none. T--3:14. A--526.
Warthog Statistics
(Through Aug. 23)
Hitting
Player AVG. G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS E
Brandon Allen .279 89 319 57 89 26 4 15 44 41 83 14 3 13
Brett Bonvechio .214 33 117 11 25 11 0 0 15 10 28 1 0 4
Javier Colina .306 59 216 34 66 22 1 3 22 22 22 10 5 4
Lee Cruz .196 56 194 16 38 16 0 2 22 12 49 1 1 3
Josh Fields .333 4 9 1 3 1 0 0 1 5 2 0 1 0
Ronnie Gaines .275 12 40 6 11 5 1 0 3 2 13 2 0 0
Anderson Gomes .196 42 138 10 27 7 0 4 14 17 39 4 0 4
Estee Harris .296 46 162 27 48 12 2 6 25 14 54 7 3 2
Francisco Hernandez .239 73 222 25 53 13 0 5 25 31 32 1 1 4
Billy Killian .206 47 131 13 27 7 0 0 6 1 23 3 2 3
C.J. Lang .255 65 204 25 52 14 1 2 19 23 28 9 3 12
Sergio Miranda .191 34 94 7 18 4 1 0 9 7 13 4 5 3
Dale Mollenhauer .229 30 109 9 25 3 3 0 9 4 19 3 0 4
Paulo Orlando .266 113 455 75 121 16 13 9 43 23 98 28 9 5
Greg Paiml .272 85 304 37 82 16 3 2 27 17 83 5 3 22
Joe Persichina .284 45 141 17 42 4 2 1 21 17 23 9 4 7
C.J. Retherford .295 123 431 61 126 27 1 16 68 36 72 11 5 23
Adam Ricks .204 48 108 15 22 6 0 1 13 28 23 3 1 2
Salvador Sanchez .239 108 402 51 96 22 4 5 52 22 95 21 14 6
John Shelby III .292 108 424 75 124 35 6 15 74 22 97 31 5 3
Freddie Thon .264 27 106 13 28 6 0 3 15 1 10 0 1 3
Pitching
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR HB BB SO
Daniel Albritton 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
Ricky Brooks 3 3 3.54 43 2 0 81.1 81 36 31 4 2 27 91
Anthony Carter 6 4 4.52 15 14 0 73.2 76 41 37 10 1 27 33
Israel Chirino 1 1 13.50 13 0 1 18.2 29 31 28 2 4 20 17
Matt Davis 3 1 5.22 36 1 4 60.1 57 39 35 6 3 24 46
Michael Dubee 5 7 4.61 27 13 0 97.2 101 57 50 12 6 35 84
John Ely 9 12 4.68 26 26 0 139.1 136 80 70 17 5 44 128
Bobby Jenks 0 0 9.00 1 1 0 1.0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0
Matt Long 7 11 4.61 27 20 0 123.0 128 79 63 9 5 39 110
Henry Mabee 3 1 4.33 24 0 3 35.1 31 19 17 1 1 10 29
Levi Maxwell 0 1 6.32 4 3 0 15.2 17 12 11 1 0 11 10
Wander Perez 1 0 3.00 19 0 0 15.0 12 5 5 1 2 10 10
Aaron Poreda 5 5 3.31 12 12 0 73.1 67 31 27 1 2 18 46
Jacob Rasner 5 7 3.55 27 16 0 99.0 104 46 39 2 5 45 78
C.J. Retherford 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adam Ricks 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Noe Rodriguez 0 0 7.50 10 0 0 12.0 14 10 10 1 3 6 11
Ryan Rote 4 2 3.64 25 0 4 29.2 28 15 12 1 1 18 25
Clevelan Santeliz 3 5 4.47 13 13 0 58.1 46 39 29 6 1 42 52
Steven Spurgeon 2 2 6.02 27 1 0 56.1 66 47 37 9 2 26 41
Kanekoa Texeira 3 1 0.93 36 0 20 38.2 28 10 5 0 0 14 36
Matt Zaleski 6 2 2.89 32 9 6 96.2 85 36 31 10 9 31 63
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