Keys 4, Mudcats 1
ZEBULON The Keys defeated the Mudcats 4-1 behind a dominant performance from starter Franderlin Romero on Saturday night in Zebulon. Romero struck out five and allowed one run on four hits over six innings while earning a win in his Carolina League debut.
Ryan Gebhardt, Keith Curcio and Joseph Odom each had hits in the first inning, but the Mudcats (19-28) scored only once and left two men on base . Odom had a run scoring double in the first and was 2-for-4 in the Carolina loss. He also had two of the team’s four total hits.
Ryan Clark started for the Mudcats and blanked the Keys (24-24) through the fifth before allowing a game tying home run to Wynston Sawyer in the sixth inning. Clark (0-5, 6.38) retired the first five he faced to start the game and scattered three hits over his first five innings before allowing the sixth inning home run. He faced two in the seventh and allowed both to reach before leaving the game.
Saturday’s box score
Frederick Keys | ab | r | h | bi |
Gonzalez J., LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wilkerson, 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sawyer, DH | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Rodriguez, 1B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bierfeldt, RF | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Reyes, 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Heim, C | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Hart, CF | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Salcedo, SS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Totals | 32 | 4 | 8 | 3 |
Carolina Mudcats | ab | r | h | bi |
Gebhardt,2B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Curcio, CF-RF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Odom, DH | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Meneses, 1B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Edgerton, 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Davidson, RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mendez, CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Harper, SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Murphy, C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daris, LF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 30 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Frederick | 000 | 001 | 300 | — | 4 | 8 | 0 |
Carolina | 100 | 000 | 000 | — | 1 | 4 | 0 |
DP–Frederick 1. LOB–Frederick 7, Carolina 3. 2B–Hart 2., Bierfeldt, Odom. HR—Sawyer (3). SF–Sawyer. .
Frederick Keys IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | |
Romero (W, 1-0) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Gonzalez, L. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Zouzalik (S, 5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Carolina Mudcats IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | |
Clark (L, 0-5) | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
O’Neal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Salazar | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
This story was originally published May 23, 2016 at 11:30 PM with the headline "Keys 4, Mudcats 1."