Power pull the plug on Legends' feeble first half
Source: Kentucky.com (Original Article)
Maybe it was destiny.
The off-field entertainment Saturday at Applebee’s Park featured the talented drum corps known as The Bucket Boys.
On the field, the Lexington Legends officially kicked the bucket. Their fourth consecutive loss clinched a first-half last-place finish in the Northern Division of the South Atlantic League.
The West Virginia Power, second to last in the division, rode the arm of left-hander Chris Cody to a 4-2 victory. The Legends dropped to 19-42 overall, 9-24 at home.
”His location was excellent,“ Legends Manager Gregg Langbehn said. ”He keeps you off balance. We just didn’t make very good adjustments.“
Cody (2-0) blanked the Legends on two hits over seven innings only last Monday.
Saturday, he worked eight innings before giving way to Rob Bryson. Cody gave up two runs, one earned, on four hits. He also struck out seven and did not issue a walk.
”I was lucky — everything was working except for my fourth pitch, my cutter,“ said Cody, who came to the Brewers system last year from the Tigers in a trade for pitcher Jose Capellan. ”But it turned out I didn’t really need it very much.“
The top five batters in the Lexington order went a combined 1-for-16. The Legends didn’t leave a man on base until the ninth inning.
”We were aware of that,“ Langbehn said. ”We didn’t do anything. We never threatened.“
Jonathan Lucroy’s two-run homer in the first inning gave West Virginia a lead it would never lose.
After Matt Cline looped a one-out single to short center, Lucroy jumped on a 1-2 offering by Legends right-hander Jack Leonhardt (2-5). He connected for a towering homer that hit the Ford sign beyond the left-field bleachers, his ninth blast of the season.
Craig Corrado led off the bottom of the inning with an infield single. He moved to second on St George Credit Cards Matt Cusick’s sacrifice. Corrado then stole …continue reading