Brevard County Falls Short at Clearwater

George Iskenderian
George Iskenderian

There were some offensive fireworks at Bright House Field on Saturday, as a crowd of 6,201 fans watched their Clearwater Threshers and the Brevard County Manatees hit four home runs and combine to score 13 runs in an 8-5 Threshers win.

Brevard County (1-8, 24-53) got home runs from George Iskenderian and Clint Coulter, but could not climb out of an early hole. The Manatees defensive struggles didn’t help, as the team committed three errors. Manatees starter Eric Hanhold continued to struggle and continued to be on the wrong end of things. He suffered his 10th loss of the season.

The Manatees did get off to a good start, scoring a run in the top of the first. Omar Garcia singled to start the game against Clearwater hurler Shane Watson. Elvis Rubio’s single two outs later, made it 1-0 Manatees. Much like in Friday night’s game, Clearwater put four runs on the board in the bottom of the first.

Cord Sandberg singled and Mitch Walding singled to Coulter in right field, the ball got by him, allowing Sandberg to score and Walding to go to third. Zach Green followed with a grounder to Blake Allemand at short and he booted it, bringing Walding home with the second run. Kyle Martin was next to the dish and he jacked one over the wall in left, making it a 4-1 game. It was Martin’s 11th homer of the season. Drew Stankiewicz added to the lead in the second inning, going yard for the first time this season.

Iskenderian hit his third homer of the season in the top of the fourth making it 5-2, but an error on Allemand started the bottom of the frame, allowing Jiandido Tromp to reach. He scored on a Stankiewicz single later in the inning, giving the home team a 6-2 lead.
Brevard Country cut the lead in half in the sixth inning on Coulter’s fourth big fly of the season. 

Watson would again run into trouble in the seventh, giving up a double to Dustin Houle, who went to third on a wild pitch. One batter later, Garcia drew a walk, bringing the night to a close for Watson. Allemand greeted reliever Will Morris with a two-run double, closing the gap to 6-5.
Josh Uhen took over for Hanhold to start the bottom of the seventh. Hanhold gave up six runs (four earned) in six innings of work. He allowed seven hits, walked one and struck out three, throwing 58 of his 93 pitches for strikes.

The Manatees loaded the bases in the top of the eighth against reliever Jesen Therrien. With one out, Coulter walked and Iskenderian singled. One batter later, a wild pitch moved them to second and third, before Dustin Houle drew a walk. Malik Collymore, who has come up with some key hits in his time with the Manatees, got the count to 3-2 before striking out swinging. The Manatees were within a pitch of tying the game.

That was as close as the Manatees would get, as the Threshers added two insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth. An RBI double by Martin scored Scott Kingery and Malquin Canelo’s single scored Martin, capping off an eight run night for the home team. Martin, Sandberg and Stankiewicz all had two-hit nights for the Threshers.

The Manatees, who left seven on base and went 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position, got two-hit nights from Garcia and Iskenderian.

The series wraps up Sunday at 6:15 p.m. Kodi Medeiros (3-7, 5.98 ERA) will toe the rubber for the Manatees, against John Richy (2-3, 4.70 ERA).

This article originally appeared on 27OutsBaseball.com on 7/2/16

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