Walking Down By the Bay

Game 4, May 22	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Durham Bulls (Rays)	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	9	2
Norfolk Tides (Orioles)	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	x	4	4	0

Season: 27-19; Trip: 1-1
Wrap, Box, Virginian-Pilot

Bulls pitchers walked seven batters last night, 3 of them scored, and that was essentially the story of the game.

To be fair to Alex Torres he’s been bouncing around quite a bit in the last week. So he had something of an excuse for his rough first inning. Nevertheless, he walked two batters in the first inning and they both scored. Will Inman had less of an excuse. The batter he walked in the 5th scored and he had walked two more before he was pulled in the 6th. Jeff Beliveau, also back from the Rays, came in to settle things down and kept the base runners from scoring.

Overall, the Bulls split these last four games with the Tides 2-2. Every game was decided by one run, three of them by identical 3-2 scores. The Bulls hit reasonably well over the series, but had troubles getting base runners home.

Outside the game —

• Chris Gimenez is with the Bulls. I missed exactly what Kinas said, but apparently a minor injury. I was wrong. What’s new there?
• Mike Montgomery scheduled to start today.
• Tampa Bay is starting a series against the RailRiders parent club, the Yankees, today.