Wednesday 12 August: Danville 4, at Princeton 2

Since their last off day, on August 3, the P-Rays have lost three straight series and six of their last nine games.
They've gone from a season-high 10 games over .500 and being as close as two games out of first place to falling five games back of Danville in the Appalachian League East.
Time is growing short, and this loss tonight did not help.
Small mistakes hurt.
Princeton starting pitcher Joey Dettrich gave up a three-run home to Danville 2B Matt Weaver, who was batting 8th in the Braves lineup (it was Weaver's first professional home run).
The P-Rays had two base runners picked off. The first was Kyle Spraker, at first base, after Princeton got two on with nobody out in the 1st inning against D-Braves starter Brett Oberholtzer. The other picked-off runner was Cody Rogers, at third base, in the bottom of the 5th, with Princeton trailing 3-2.
In a short-season pennant race, the margin of error is slim.

Here's the boxscore:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2009_08_12_dnvrok_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_12_dnvrok_prirok_1

The P-Rays host the arch-rival Bluefield Orioles in a Mercer Cup doubleheader tomorrow evening, 13 August.
We'll have it for you starting at 5:00 pm EDT with the P-Rays Pre-Game Show. Game one of the seven-inning DH will start at 5:30, with game two following 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game.
Tune in to Classic Rock 102 The River (WMTD 102.3 FM) or log on to theriver102.com.

Princeton leads this year's Mercer Cup series five games to one. The P-Rays will clinch this year's Cup championship with one more victory over the Baby Birds.