Saturday 15 August: Bluefield 5, at Princeton 3

This was just the third loss in ten meetings with their Mercer Cup rivals, but it drops Princeton 6 1/2 games behind Danville for first place in the Appalachian League Eastern Division.
The P-Rays are down to their last 19 games of the season.

There was controversy again tonight. Cody Rogers led off the Princeton 4th with a double off the wall in left, but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple.
Bluefield 1B Corey Thomas got in Rogers' way as he tried to run the bases, slowing Rogers down. It seemed everyone in the ballpark saw the 'interference' except the umpires. The non-call ultimately cost Princeton a run in what was, at the time, a 1-0 game.
That said, Princeton's pitching was a little wobbly tonight. P-Rays pitchers allowed 11 hits to a Bluefield squad that came into the game hitting just .246.
So the non-call may not have ultimately mattered. But you never know.
Bluefield starter Vito Fabrizio was tough, shutting out Princeton over seven innings.

Here's the boxscore:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2009_08_15_blurok_prirok_1&t=g_box&did=milb

And the recap:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_log&gid=2009_08_15_blurok_prirok_1


Princeton finishes 4-3 in the seven-game homestand.

Princeton opens a four-game series at Kingsport tomorrow, Sunday 16 August, with a twi-night doubleheader.
We'll have it for you on Classic Rock 102 The River (WMTD 102.3 FM) and theriver102.com, starting with the P-Rays Pre-Game Show at 5:30 pm EDT. Game one of the doubleheader starts at 6:00.

Princeton defeated the K-Mets in their only two meetings so far this season. The P-Rays won 10-4 on July 15 and 12-9 the following night. The game of July 17th was rained out, precipitating (so to speak) the doubleheader at Hunter Wright Stadium tomorrow evening.