Chiefs shut out 'Pigs

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Phillies fans better hope their favorite major league team has more success in their 12 games remaining against the Washington Nationals than its Triple-A affiliate has had against the National's top minor league team so far this season.

Syracuse continued its domination of the IronPigs Thursday night, scoring in five of the first six innings en route to a 9-0 trouncing of Lehigh Valley before 6,038 fans at Alliance Bank Stadium.

The Chiefs (50-39) have now won eight of the 11 meetings between the two teams this season including the last three, outscoring the IronPigs (35-53) 20-2 in those three wins. They have now gone 20 consecutive innings without scoring against Syracuse pitching.



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Playing for the second straight game without Andy Tracy, who was hit above his right elbow by a pitch in Tuesday's game against Pawtucket, the IronPigs managed just six hits, three of them by Neil Sellers. Sellers had the team's only extra-base hit, a fifth-inning double.

In two games without Tracy the IronPigs have scored just two runs, both on Chris Aguila singles in Wednesday's 4-2 loss to Pawtucket.

Syracuse scored single runs in the first and second inning against Ty Taubenheim (0-2), then chased the veteran with a five-run third inning. Taubenheim walked two, one intentionally, and gave up two doubles in the inning, including one by Seth Bynum that knocked in two runs and sent him to the clubhouse trailing 5-0.

An error after Joe Savery got the inning's second out extended the inning and led to two unearned runs by the Chiefs.

Home runs by Justin Maxwell (off Savery) and Leonard Davis (off Alex Concepcion) closed out Syracuse's scoring.

Domonic Brown went 0-for-4 to snap his 12-game hitting streak, and also failed to reach base for the first time in 15 games since his promotion from Double-A Reading.

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