Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 25, 1994 TAG: 9408250113
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By RAY COX STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Right-hander Dave Doorneweerd had a no-hitter through four innings but when the Kinston Indians broke through, there seemed to be little stopping them after that.
Kinston scored all of its runs in the last four innings, six of those coming in the messy ninth, and went on to 13-5 Carolina League victory over the Bucs at Municipal Field.
Salem lost for the second straight time to the Indians and fell into a three-way tie for second place in the Southern Division, 81/2 games behind the Durham Bulls.
Doorneweerd had them confused for the first four innings, which he negotiated with but two walks to mar the effort. Eddie Lantigua opened the gates in the three-run fifth with a single and ninth-place hitter Andre White followed with a two-run homer.
There went a 1-0 lead and Salem was playing catchup the rest of the way.
"Doorneweerd was pitching as well as he has in a while," Salem manager Trent Jewett said. "He had a good fastball. But then a got a couple of those fastballs up and they hammered them.
"Overall, I thought he had an outstanding game going seven innings. But two p[itches did make a difference."
It wasn't the last the Bucs heard of Lantigua, a Dominican third baseman who joined the Indians in June after a trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers involving left-hander Brian Barnes. Tuesday in the Bucs 5-2 loss, Lantigua left the bases loaded twice before coming through with an insurance RBI in the ninth .
"I thought about leaving the bases loaded when I was out in the field [last night]," he said. "They were pitching me inside a lot so I moved off the plate to get a better cut."
Playing off the plate wasn't exactly the easiest place to be when Doorneweerd worked him outside with an 0-1 pitch in the sixth. Lantigua, a right-handed hitter, went the opposite way with the pitch for a two-run homer, his eighth of the year.
"I'm trying to not pull everything," he said. "I wanted to go to right field with it"
Then, in the ninth, Lantigua added to what was already a miserable inning for the Bucs by belting his second homer, another two-run job, off Terry Farrar, the fourth Salem pitcher of the inning.
That inning was lowlighted by two errors, Alan Purdy's second of the night at third base, and Jon Farrell's second. The ball was knocked from Farrell's glove by base runner Jon Nunnally.
The errors didn't help the disposition of Salem reliever Sean Evans, whose remarks to the umpire resulted in an ejection.
Salem had drawn to within a run in the seventh inning when Chance Sanford drilled a three-run homer to make the score 6-5. It was Sanford's 18th homer of the year and second of the series.
But Sanford had an error in the sixth that set up Lantigua's first home run.
BUCSHOTS: Farrell extended an eight-game hitting streak by going 2-for-4. He is now 16 of his last 27 (.592). He also stole his 10th base of the year.
by CNB