Lehigh Valley IronPigs split doubleheader with Columbus

FROM THE EXPRESS TIMES

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs earned a split on the day with Columbus after the league-leading Clippers outblasted the Pigs in a 12-6 International League win this afternoon.

Lehigh Valley won the first game of the doubleheader 4-1 at Huntington Park.

Both games were seven innings.

Cord Phelps hit a two-run home run off Brian Bass in the bottom of the third giving Columbus (23-7) a 10-0 advantage.

The Pigs (16-14) turned an 11-2 score into an 11-6 deficit on home runs by Kevin Frandsen and Domonic Brown in the fifth and Jeff Larish in the sixth.

Bass (1-2) surrendered eight runs on nine hits in two innings for the loss, while Scott Barnes (2-1) earned the win despite giving up five runs on seven hits in five innings.

In the first game, a solo home run by Erik Kratz in the top of the second gave the Pigs a 3-0 lead. Ronnie Belliard singled in a run and Josh Barfield added an RBI ground-rule double in the top of the first.

Eddie Bonine (3-3) scattered five hits, allowing one run in five innings for the victory. Mike Zagurski earned his third save of the season by striking out a pair in the bottom of the seventh.

Belliard went 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs in Game 1, while Brown went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs and an RBI in the nightcap. Cory Sullivan, Frandsen and Larish had two hits apiece in Game 2 for the Pigs.

Lehigh Valley continues its eight-game Ohio roadtrip with a four-game set at Toledo beginning on Monday evening. Probables are left-hander Ryan Feierabend (0-2, 7.54 ERA) for the Pigs against fellow southpaw Andy Oliver (3-1, 3.64) for the Mud Hens.

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