Stingrays glide past high flying Stars

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Stingrays glide past high flying Stars

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Florida 6 St. Louis 5

Florida out homered the league leaders three-two, out hit them ten to seven and beat them on the scoreboard in the most important category 6-5. The Stingrays did most of their damage early off Bill Cheney while Florida starting pitcher Juan Escobar (WP 2-3) had a strong start and went 7.1 innings gave up four runs, all earned, walked one and recorded five strikeouts.

Escobar gave way to Arlas Little with one out in the eight after Jesse Pyle had hit his 4th homerun of the season. Little walked Wes Nagelson but then induced Marty Rodriquez to hit into a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.

Joe Putnam hit the Stars second homer in the 6th inning, his 3rd.

The Stingrays took the lead early and held off the Stars before a large sellout crowd that was stunned into silence when Florida took the lead in the first inning off starter Bill Cheney (LP 3-2).

Lead-off batter Jeff Garchetti (.387) bunted for a hit to start the game, stole second base (7th) and scored the game's first run on Philip Crowder's groundball single to center field.

1-0 Florida.

Cheney had trouble in the second as well. Some of the trouble was self induced because he put the lead-off batter, Jamie Powell, subbing at shortstop for resting Speedy Gonzalez, on with a walk. Catcher Mark Turner unloaded a blast to deep left center field scoring Powell ahead of him for a 3-0 lead.

The Stingrays were still not done scoring in the inning. Garchetti doubled for his second hit and scored ahead of Leslie Wittig's on his 4th homer of the season,

Elmer Griesinger's seventh inning shot was the only scoring for Florida as they hung on despit the Stars late inning power that made it a one run final 6-5.

Florida is now 11-17 eight games behind the NL front running Stars and just one game behind their next target in the standings, Pittsburgh (12-16) who lost to New York 6-2.

Milwaukee downed Brooklyn 5-2 and San Francisco was three better than Montreal, 5-2.
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