Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 19, 1994 TAG: 9408190087
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RAY COX STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
By beating Winston-Salem 5-2 Thursday night, the Salem Buccaneers took two of three from the Spirits and moved into second place in the Carolina League's Southern Division. And hope was rekindled, albeit faintly, that the Bucs would yet contend this year.
With 18 games to go, the Bucs travel to Durham Athletic Park for the last time this weekend for another shot at the first-place Bulls. Salem trails by seven games in the standings.
"We've got to sweep them," Salem manager Trent Jewett said. "Going in there and winning one or two isn't going to do us any good. If we sweep, we'll have a chance, but it'll still be awfully tough."
Jewett's hard-nosed realism is well-founded, but there have been plenty of times this year that nobody in his right mind would have envisioned the Bucs getting this close.
"We're playing hard and when everybody does that, then you never know what's going to happen," Salem first baseman Jon Farrell said. "The pitching has been looking good. If we hit, we'll win."
And hit the Bucs did on Thursday - two homers and three doubles among their nine hits. There was no denying, however, that Salem could have given the scoreboard a better workout.
"It was all right, tonight, but we should have scored a lot more runs," Jewett said.
Salem stranded 10 runners - three in the fourth inning - but Winston-Salem did not take advantage of it. Salem starter Dave Doorneweerd limited the Spirits to four hits and two runs over six innings. The tall right-hander struck out four and walked three and he may have done his best pitching in the very first inning.
With one out, Ricky Magdaleno tripled to the gap in right center field. Then, Doorneweerd squeezed a grounder to third out of Pat Watkins before striking out Toby Rumfield to end the inning.
The Spirits paid in the bottom of the frame. Two batters into the inning, Winston-Salem's infield turned a double play. Chance Sanford responded by belting a 3-1 fastball over the right-field fence. It was the second baseman's 16th homer of the season.
Salem's Danny Clyburn led off the second with another homer, a rocket to right.
"It was 2-2 and I was looking for a curve," said Clyburn, who slugged his team-leading 20th. "He threw me a fastball and I just reacted to it."
Winston-Salem trimmed the lead to one on Cleveland Ladell's RBI double in the third and tied the score with another run in the fourth. Salem answered in the fourth with a run on a bases-loaded error and never looked back.
Farrell padded the lead in the seventh with an RBI double. That made Farrell six for his last eight.
"I'm staying back better at times and I'm seeing some more fastballs," he said.
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