Ottawa - There have been plenty of record-breaking nights at Lynx Stadium over the years, but the Ottawa Lynx are hoping this one has a twist-ed ending. The Lynx home game Thursday, August 17th against Buffalo will play host to an attempt at the Guinness World Record™ for the world's largest dancing of the twist in the Tropicana Twist-er World Record Attempt, presented by Tropicana Twister and Hot 89.9.
After the game, August 17th, fans are invited to go down onto the Lynx Stadium field to help dance Ottawa into the record books.
Tropicana will provide samples of Tropicana Twister for our thirsty dancers as well as other prizes throughout the game. Fred Astaire Dance Studio will have two dancers on-site to show everyone the correct way to do the twist and will also provide a $500 gift certificate for dance lessons for one lucky Lynx fan. Hot 89.9 will provide the music and get the attempt underway with Chubby Checker's "The Twist."
To make the record official, two prominent and respected members of the community have to witness this event. So CTV Ottawa personality Max Keeping and Ottawa city councillor Jacques Legendre will be on hand to make this world record attempt count.
A total of 1,691 staff and pupils from St Aidan's Church of England High School and St. John Fisher Catholic High School from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK, danced the twist for five minutes on April 30th, 2004. Gather your friends and family and let's make history at Lynx Stadium!
The Cleveland Indians today announced that they have recalled outfielder Franklin Gutierrez from the Buffalo Bisons. The move was made shortly after the Tribe completed a trade with Cincinnati that sent outfielder Todd Hollandsworth to the Reds.
The Indians received a player to be named later in the deal.
Gutierrez, 23, has spent most of the 2006 with the Herd with a .281 (90-32) average, seven home runs and 32RBI in 83 games. He led the team with 26 doubles while his 58 runs scored were second only to Ben Francisco (64). His was 12 of 19 in stolen base attempts and has appeared in 56 games in centerfield, 14 games in left and eight games in right.
This is Gutierrez's second stint with the Indians this year, as he batted .258 (17-66) with 11 runs scored, four doubles and four RBI in 20 games from June 16 - July 12.
Signed during the off season, Hollandsworth batted .237 (37-156) with 12 doubles, a triple, six home runs and 27RBI in 56 games this year with the Indians.
Tied 3-3, the Red Wings scored one run in the seventh and two in the eight to defeat the Pawtucket Red Sox 6-3 Wednesday in a weekday game at Frontier Field. Chris Heintz drove in two runs for Rochester. After the game, RHP Boof Bonser was called up to Minnesota after LHP Francisco Liriano was placed on the disabled list.
With lefty Jason Miller on the mound, the Paw Sox got on the board early. Miller had recorded four fly-outs by the second inning, but Willie Harris hit a home run over the right field fence to give the Sox a 1-0 lead.
The Sox tacked on another run in the top of the third. Trent Durrington reached on a fielder's choice and stole second. Dustin Pedroia popped up to Tommy Watkins, who was unable to catch the ball. Durrington came around to score and the Sox took a 2-0 lead.
The Red Wings closed the gap in the bottom of the third. Alex Romero and Luis Maza led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Watkins grounded into a fielder's choice and Lew Ford hit an infield single to load the bases. Quinton McCracken grounded out to the second basemen to score Maza, making the score 2-1.
Durrington singled and stole his second base of the game as the Paw Sox added another run in the top of the fifth. Jeff Bailey singled to drive in Durrington to give the Sox a 3-1 lead.
McCracken and Terry Tiffee led off the bot! tom of the sixth to get the offense going for the Wings. Kevin West had an RBI single and Chris Heintz had an RBI ground out to third to tie the game at 3.
With Boston reliever Keith Foulke on to pitch the seventh inning as part of his rehab assignment with Pawtucket, Maza led off with a triple to the power alley in left-centerfield, and scored on Watkins' RBI sacrifice fly to center. Ford followed with a double off Foulke (0-1), and the Wings nearly had another run - if not for a great play by second baseman Willie Harris, who leaped high to take a hit away from McCracken and then doubled up Ford at second to end the inning.
Rochester picked up insurance runs off Javier Lopez in the eighth inning. Garrett Jones was on first after a single and, with two outs, Heintz' RBI double to center field plated Jones. When Romero singled to center on the next play, Heintz hustled home from second and made a perfect slide to beat a near-perfect throw and make it 6-3 Red Wings.
Miller, who got the starting nod after scheduled starter Matt Garza was called up to the Twins Tuesday, tossed six fine innings. He scattered six hits, allowed three runs (two earned) and walked one while fanning five. Equally impressive was Kevin Cameron, who rebounded from a rough outing Monday (1/3 inning, four runs). Cameron took over in the seventh and retired the first eight batters he faced until Ken Huckaby doubled in the ninth - breaking a streak of four straight strikeouts by Cameron. A pop fly to Romero in left by Alejandro Machado ended the game, giving Cameron (4-3) the decision and the Wings the win.
NOTES: Rochester had scored just 25 runs (2.5 runs per game) in Miller's 10 previous starts and nine of those runs came in his first start.....Tuesday night's 1-0 win vs. Pawtucket was the Red Wings' 13th shutout this season. The 13 shutouts are the most Rochester has had in a season since 1997, when the Red Wings had 13 shutouts. Of the 13 shutouts this year five have come on the road, the most road shutouts for Rochester since 1999... The Red Wings now have a 53-39 record vs. the Paw Sox since 2001. Prior to 2001, Rochester had not won a season series with Pawtucket since 1996.
TONIGHT'S GAME: The second of a three game home and home series and the second of two in Norfolk. The 12th of 16 meetings, the seventh of eight at Harbor Park. Richmond is 7-4 vs. the Tides, 3-3 at Norfolk. Game four of a four game road trip (Richmond is 2-1). The 38th of 48 meetings vs. South Division clubs (Braves are 19-18 vs. the South) and the 19th of 24 road contests vs. South Division clubs (Richmond is 8-10). The Braves were 5-11 vs. the Tides last season, 2-6 at Harbor Park. The Braves are 358-403 all-time vs. Norfolk. The Braves are third in the South, 23.5 games behind first place Charlotte. The Tides are fourth in the South, 26 games out.
LAST NIGHT'S GAME: The Braves beat the Tides 4-3 at Harbor Park Tuesday. The Braves rallied from a 2-0 deficit to win for the seventh time in their last eight games. The Tides took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a home run by Jose Offerman. The Braves tied the game in the third when a double play ground ball produced a run. Richmond got on the board in the fourth on an RBI single by Brayan Pena. The Braves moved in front in the seventh. Martin Prado blasted his first Triple-A home run to tie the game. James Jurries chased a run home with a single to give the Braves the lead. The Braves added a run in the ninth on an RBI single by Bill McCarthy. The Tides pulled to within a run in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Ruben Gotay but left the potential tying run at third. Will Startup collected the win. Manny Acosta earned the save. Yusaku Iriki took the loss. Brayan Pena had four hits for the Braves. Anderson Hernandez had two hits for the Tides.
BARRY SCRATCHED: RHP Daniel Curtis replaces RHP Kevin Barry as tonight's starting pitcher. Barry was scratched in anticipation of starting for Atlanta Saturday. Barry has been called up to Atlanta twice this season. He is 0-0 5.91 in six games with Atlanta, all in relief. Barry is one of 17 R- Braves promoted to Atlanta this season. Curtis made nine straight starts before his brief move to the bullpen and did not appear in relief. With the return of RHP Jason Shiell, the Braves have made 93 roster moves this season.
OF STREAKS AND MEN: Brayan Pena has hits in 10 straight games (17-41 .415). If he gets a hit tonight he would equal the club's longest hitting streak of the season (11 games by Scott Thorman). Gregor Blanco's four game hitting streak ended last night. Phil Stockman has not allowed a run on the road with Richmond this season (seven appearances, 14 innings pitched on the road). Jonathan Johnson has worked five straight scoreless outings over 8.1 innings. Richmond is hitting .327 over their last eight games. They are averaging 10.9 hits per game over that span. The Braves are second in the IL in extra inning games played with 16 (one behind Rochester). Braves pitchers are hitting .220 with one RBI (13-59). Braves pinch hitters are hitting .130 (6-46).
ROAD WARRIORS: The Braves have won two straight games and seven of their last eight. They are looking for their fifth three game winning streak of the season. The Braves are looking for their third straight road win for the first time this season. They have beaten Norfolk four straight times and snapped a three game losing streak at Harbor Park last night. Richmond has won nine of their last 11 home games. They have already surpassed last season's total number of home wins (28).
INDIANAPOLIS -- Louisville scored four times in the top of the seventh to post a 6-4 win over Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon at Victory Field.
The Bats improve to 61-56 on the season, while the Indians fall to 62-54 overall. Indianapolis continues to lead the International League's West Division by one-half game over Toledo, pending the outcome of Wednesday night's Mud Hens-Columbus Clippers game.
The Bats sent eight men to the plate in their big inning. 2B Aaron Herr opened the frame with a walk and moved to second on 3B Earl Snyder's single to left center. Louisville then collected three straight run-scoring, extra-base hits with 1B Jesse Gutierrez hammering an RBI double, RF Matt Kata whacking a two-run triple and C Ryan Jorgensen smoking an RBI double.
Indianapolis trimmed the deficit with a pair of runs in the eighth, but Bats RHP Scott Chiasson (1.1 IP, 1 BB, 2 SO) came in to snag his team-leading 23rd save of the season.
Louisville RHP Tom Shearn (0.2 IP, 1 BB) closed out the sixth and was credited with the win, improving to 7-3. Tribe LHP Sean Burnett (6.0 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 2 SO) was pinned with the loss, falling to 7-9.
Snyder (2-for-3, 2 R, 2 RBI) and Jorgensen (2-for-4, 1 RBI) recorded multi-hit games for the visitors, while C Carlos Maldonado (3-for-5, 1 RBI) and 1B Chris Richard (2-for-2, 2 RBI) managed more than one base knock for the home team.
The clubs traded early scores before the Indians pulled ahead with a run in the sixth. SS J.J. Furmaniak roped a single to right center, went from first to third on a groundout and scored on a throwing error by the Louisville first baseman.
The Bats answered, plating five unanswered runs -- four in the seventh and one in the eighth -- to open up some breathing room.
Indianapolis reached the 10-hit plateau for the 35th time this year (11 hits), but tied a season-high for runners left on base (15).
The Indians, who own the IL's best fielding percentage at .982, also registered their 60th errorless games of the campaign.
The two teams wrap up their four-game "home and home" series Thursday night at 7 p.m. RHP Ryan Vogelsong is scheduled to start for Indianapolis, while LHP Mike Gosling is expected to get the nod for Louisville.
The game will be carried by ESPN-950 AM and IndyIndians.com as Howard Kellman and Scott McCauley have the call. Thursday's pre-game show begins at 6:40 p.m.
Norfolk, VA - The Richmond Braves beat the Norfolk Tides 5-1 at Harbor Park Wednesday. The Braves earned their third straight win and eighth in their last nine games behind seven innings of shutout pitching by Daniel Curtis.
The Braves Martin Prado drilled a two run homer in the first, giving the Braves all the offense they would need. Richmond tacked on three more runs in the fourth. James Jurries knocked in a run with a single. Gregor Blanco and Wes Timmons forced in runs with bases loaded walks to give the Braves a 5-0 lead. The Tides averted a shutout in the ninth on an RBI single by Jacob Cruz.
Curtis allowed just three hits in seven innings to earn the win. Oliver Perez took the loss. Brayan Pena and Bill McCarthy each had three hits for the Braves.
Richmond returns home Thursday to face the Tides at 7 PM. For more information please call the Braves at 359-4444
August 9, 2006 - The Richmond Braves held Norfolk to four hits, topping the Tides 5-1 in front of 8,469 fans at Harbor Park Wednesday night.
Braves starter Dan Curtis (3-4) pitched 7.0 shutout innings, helping Richmond knock off the Tides for the fifth straight game. The 26-year-old right-hander allowed just three hits and two walks while striking out three, lowering his ERA in August to 0.71.
Richmond jumped out to an early lead off of Norfolk starter Oliver Perez (1-5), as Gregor Blanco led off the game with a walk and came around to score on a home run to left field off the bat of Martin Prado, his second of the season.
The Braves broke the game open with three more runs in the fourth inning, taking advantage of three base hits and three Perez walks to go on top 5-0.
Perez, acquired in a July 31 trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, took the loss after allowing five runs on six hits while walking five and striking out four in 3.2 innings of work.
The Tides bullpen of Tim LaVigne, Jose Lima, Steve Schmoll and Juan Perez kept the Braves off the board the rest of the game, spinning 5.1 innings of shutout relief.
Norfolk ended Richmond's shutout bid when Jacob Cruz drove home Jose Offerman with a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The two teams are set to conclude their three-game home and home series Thursday night from The Diamond in Richmond. Brian Bannister (0-2, 12.60) is scheduled to make the start for Norfolk against Richmond right-hander Jason Shiell (1-1, 2.14), with game time slated for 7:00 p.m.
Michael Tucker has contract purchased by New York Just prior to the start of the game, the New York Mets purchased the contract of outfielder Michael Tucker from the Tides. Tucker, 35, was hitting .265 with six home runs and 33 RBI in 83 games for Norfolk, and had drawn a team-leading 49 walks this season. He will take the the roster spot of outfielder Cliff Floyd, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with tendinitis in his left Achilles.
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