Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, May 23, 1993 TAG: 9305230154
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: D-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RAY COX STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
In fact, the temptation will be strong to incinerate the entire sports page on sight, Stanley Cup semifinals, NBA playoffs and all.
"I'd like to forget the whole game," Salem manager Scott Little said.
Those sentiments were held no less strongly than by four of the five Salem pitchers who earned a paycheck the hard way at Municipal Field. Only left-hander Jason Christiansen, who worked a perfect ninth, and fellow southpaw Matt Ruebel, who also escaped relatively unscathed after two innings, are likely to have gotten much sleep Saturday night.
As for starter Dave Doorneweerd and successors Jim Martin and Sean Evans, the menu of indignities included nine hits, 10 earned runs, nine walks, three wild pitches and two hit batters.
Doorneweerd set the depressing tone by working the first 1 innings. His high point apparently occurred before taking the mound.
"He threw great warming up in the bullpen," pitching coach Dave Rajsich said.
Matters unraveled quickly after Carlton Fleming's leadoff bunt. What followed was three walks, a run-scoring wild pitch and Robert Deller's two-run double. Presto, the Bucs are 4-0 in arrears.
Doorneweerd continued to be distracted in the second and surrendered hits to two of the first three batters and one more run came in. With one out, Little gave him the rest of the night off.
Considering the way Ron Frazier was firing pitches for the Cannons, one run might have done it. Frazier breezed through seven innings, scattering five hits and striking out eight. Later, Frazier (6-0) admitted it wasn't as breezy as it looked.
"I was tight pretty much the whole time, and I felt like I wasn't throwing as hard as usual," he said. "But we got a good comfortable lead and that made it easier."
The Cannons scored four runs off Martin in the fourth. Tate Seefried had a three-run homer, and Deller added another RBI. Deller and Seefried each drove in four runs for the game.
\ BUCSHOTS: Salem shortstop Tony Womack took a painful shot to the lower midsection on a seventh-inning grounder off the bat of Jovino Carvajal. Womack left the game but apparently will be all right. . . . Cannons catcher Jorge Posada was hit on the right foot by an Evans pitch in the eighth and had to leave the game. Later, he was carried from the dugout and taken to the hospital. "It doesn't look good," Prince William manager Trey Hillman said. . . . Former University of Virginia left-hander Keith Seiler pitched the eighth and ninth for the Cannons and gave up one hit. PR.WILLIAM SALEM ab r h bi ab r h bi Fleming dh5210 Womack ss3000 Erickson 2b5111 Polcovich ss1000 Flannelly 3b4110 Sanford 2b4000 Posada c1100 Bonifay rf3010 Motuzas pr0100 Conger rf1010 Seefried 1b4114 Neff 3b4000 Knowles ss2210 Brown 1b3010 Deller lf5034 Ponder ph1000 Hubbard rf4000 Thomas cf4010 Carvajal cf5110 Ragland dh3010 000 Ronca lf3010 000 Hanel c2000 Totals35 10 9 9 Totals 32 0 6 0
Pr. William410 400 010-10 Salem000 000 000-0
E-Knowles (13), Womack (14). DP-Prince William 2, Salem 1. LOB-Prince William 9, Salem 6. 2B-Deller (2), Flannelly (12), Knowles (4). HR-Seefried (9). SB-Carvajal (4), Fleming (7), Womack (20). IP HRERBBSO Pr. William Frazier W, 6-0 750018 Seiler 210000 Salem Doorneweerd L,2-4 145531 Martin 244433 Ruebel 200022 Evans 211111 Christiansen 100000
HBP - Flannelly by Martin, Posada by Evans. W-Doorneweerd 2, Ruebel.
Umpires-Home, Schwark; bases, Miguez.
T-2:29. A-3641.
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