Palms 5, Rays 2

The Palms worked their way back to .500 in somewhat less dramatic fashion than the game last night. The Rays got to Javier Vazquez early, but he managed to spare the bullpen after a night in which the team used almost everyone over 15 innings, after a short outing from Felix Gonsales. Additionally, there were many off days granted, and two of the subs, Johnny Giavotella and Tony Abreu came through with rare home runs off of Jeff Niemann. Vazquez went 8, and Manny Parra pitched a fairly quiet 9th to earn the save. They have 4 against the Mariners starting tomorrow.

Miami Palms 5, Tampa Bay Rays 2
Thursday, April 12, 2012


Tampa Bay Rays (1-2) Miami Palms (3-3)
Player AB R H BI BB SO P A E LOB Ave Player AB R H BI BB SO P A E LOB Ave
------ -- - - -- -- -- - - - --- --- ------ -- - - -- -- -- - - - --- ---
Jennings cf 4 1 1 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 .389 Prado 3b 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 .100
Pena 1b 5 0 4 1 0 0 7 0 0 1 .526 Giavotella 2b 5 2 3 1 0 1 1 3 0 3 .364
Longoria 3b 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 .278 Gonzalez dh 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .417
Keppinger dh 5 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 .400 Holliday lf 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .360
Zobrist rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 .250 Markakis rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 .400
Rodriguez ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 3 .286 Dupont 1b 4 0 2 0 0 1 9 1 0 0 .310
Lobaton c 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 .235 Molina c 4 0 1 1 0 1 5 0 0 0 .375
Johnson 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 .250 Tiropes cf 4 1 1 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 .333
Joyce lf 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 .200 Abreu ss 4 1 2 2 0 0 1 5 0 0 .500

-- - - -- -- -- -- -- -- --- -- - - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---
Totals 36 2 9 2 3 5 24 9 0 11 Totals 37 5 14 5 1 3 27 11 0 9


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Tampa Bay Rays 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 0
Miami Palms 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 5 14 0



LOB- Tampa Bay Rays 11, Miami Palms 9; 2B- Jennings(1), Keppinger(1), Giavotella 2(3),
Holliday(3); HR- Giavotella(1), Abreu(1); RBI- Pena(6), Keppinger(1), Giavotella(1),
Gonzalez(3), Molina(1), Abreu 2(2); GIDP- Tiropes(1); RLSP- Zobrist 2, Rodriguez 2,
Keppinger 3, Giavotella 2, Holliday, Markakis, Tiropes 2;

DP- Tampa Bay Rays 1;



Tampa Bay Rays IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Niemann(L 0-1) 7.0 12 5 5 0 1 6.43
Howell 1.0 2 0 0 1 2 3.00

Miami Palms IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Vazquez(W 2-0) 8.0 8 2 2 3 5 3.14
Parra(S,1) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 9.00

Pitches-strikes- Niemann 97-65, Howell 19-11, Vazquez 110-64, Parra 7-5; Batters faced- Niemann 32,
Howell 6, Vazquez 36, Parra 4;

HBP- Joyce(by Vazquez);

Player of the game: Johnny Giavotella

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