AA ALL-STAR GAME

 

 

 

 

Game & team information

Date: July 10, 2002

Division: Class AA Baseball / Three Leagues

Location: Yantic, CT

Field: Dodd Stadium

Attendance: 8,009

Starting time: 7:05 PM

 

 

Score

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

 

R

H

E

National League

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

 

2

8

0

American League

1

0

0

1

0

0

9

0

-

 

11

14

1

 

 

Game story

Though I tried to get a box score, I couldn't find one anywhere. Below is an article written on the game...

 

NORWICH, Connecticut - Jorge Sequea, Marshall McDougall and Dewayne Wise each contributed to a nine-run seventh inning, leading the American All-Star team to an 11-2 victory over the National League squad, in the National Association's final combined Class-AA All-Star Game. Sequea entered the contest in the fifth inning as a pinch-runner for Trenton's Wilton Veras, who was struck in the ankle by a Nate Robertson fastball that tailed too far inside. However it wasn't until the seventh that Sequea, of the Erie SeaWolves, would make an impact. Jack Krawczyk replaced Billy Sylvester on the mound to open the seventh frame and would watch four runs cross the plate before recording an out. The 21-year-old Sequea drew a leadoff walk, advanced to third base on back-to-back singles by Wise and McDougall and scored in front of Wise when Aaron Miles smacked a two-run double into right field, snapping a 2-2 tie. Huntsville's Krawczyk, who was replaced by Chris Spurling of Altoona, would suffer the loss for the National League, allowing six runs and five hits with a pair of strikeouts among the eight batters he faced. Spurling yielded a base hit to the first batter he faced and then Sequea, in his second appearance of the frame, launched a one-out, three-run blast over the left-field wall at Dodd Stadium, earning him the Star of Stars award for the Eastern League. Wise, a lefthander, followed Sequea with an opposite-field solo shot that capped the offensively explosive frame and walked away with MVP honors for the Southern League. McDougall, of the Midland RockHounds, doubled and scored for a two-hit seventh inning and was named the MVP of the Texas League. New Britain's Juan Padilla, who leads the Eastern League with 24 saves, picked up the win in the contest, pitching a hitless seventh inning with a pair of strikeouts. Akron's southpaw Brian Tallet, who started the game and faced five batters without allowing a hit, featured a 90-plus MPH split-fingered fastball that entered the strikezone only to have the bottom drop out on the off-balanced hitters. The Thunder's shortstop Freddy Sanchez, whose 27-game hitting streak remains the longest streak of its kind in the minors this season, homered in his first at-bat of the game to give the American League an early 1-0 lead. Catcher Jeff Smith, of the New Britain Rock Cats, ripped a two-run triple down the right-field line and scored in the nine-run seventh for the victors. Harrisburg's Terrmel Sledge swung the hottest bat for the National League, going 2-for-2 with a double, a triple, an RBI and a run scored and first baseman Aaron McNeal of Binghamton drove in the first run for his club with a infield hit in the fifth.

 

 

Stats (this is all I have)

Winning pitcher: Juan Padilla (1 - 0)

Losing pitcher: Jack Krawczyk (0 - 1)

Home Run(s): Fred Sanchez (1), Jorge Sequea (1), Dewayne Wise (1)

 

 

 

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