Lexington Legends

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Hagerstown Suns won their second straight and fourth in five games Saturday with a 6-5 win over the Lexington Legends before 7,195 at Applebee's Park. Robbie Meyer's solo homer in the eighth inning broke a 5-5 tie, and Ryan Meaux retired the side in the ninth for his 15th save. Hagerstown took a 2-0 lead in the second on Scoop McDowell's homer. Julian Benavidez gave the Suns a 3-1 lead in the sixth with a single, the team's third straight. McDowell and Justin Knoedler hit sacrifice flies for a 5-1 lead.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Hagerstown Suns won their second straight and fourth in five games Saturday with a 6-5 win over the Lexington Legends before 7,195 at Applebees Park. Robbie Meyer's solo homer in the eighth inning broke an 5-5 tie and Ryan Meaux retired the side 1-2-3 in the ninth for his 15th save. Hagerstown took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on Scoop McDowell's homer. Julian Benavidez gave Hagerstown a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning with a single, the third straight by the Suns (Derin McMains and Branden Florence)

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Hagerstown Suns' modest two-game winning streak came to an end Thursday night as the Lexington Legends rallied from an 4-0 deficit to post a 5-4 decision in front of 7,027 fans at Applebees Park. Hagerstown (7-21 in the second half of the South Atlantic League's Northern Division) took a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the sixth. Branden Florence hit a solo homer, his third staight game with a homer, in the first inning and Scoop McDowell hit a solo homer in the fourth inning.

bobp@herald-mail.com The Hagerstown Suns had to grin and Barrett on Saturday. The Suns were all smiles early when Brian Carter's two-out single up the middle scored Mark Walker with the winning run in the 11th inning for a 4-3 victory over the Lexington Legends in the completion of a game suspended by rain. But Jimmy Barrett wiped away the happiness with five innings of five-hit pitching as the Legends swamped the Suns 9-0 in the regularly scheduled game. Barrett, from Cumberland, Md., took advantage of a 3-0 first-inning lead built on the wildness of Suns starter Kyle Gross and kept Hagerstown flailing away during his stint in front a number of family and friends.

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. - Twice this season, a Hagerstown Suns pitcher has thrown a complete game. Unfortunately, each time, the Suns have lost. Wednesday against the Kannapolis Intimidators, Anthony Pannone was strong. He threw eight innings, allowing just one earned run on a Gustavo Molina home run in the bottom of the second inning. That was the only score in the game. Pannone (4-3) allowed four hits, walked one and struck out three. Offensively, Hagerstown's story was Bryan Carter.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - All things considered, the Hagerstown Suns probably wish Wednesday's rain had continued on Thursday. The Suns, rained out on Wednesday, saw their losing streak stretch to four games Thursday by dropping a doubleheader to the Lexington Legends, 8-5 and 9-0, on Thursday. Hagerstown took a 5-0 lead in the first game as Bryan Carter delivered a bases-loaded, three-run double in the second inning before Miguel Miranda and Julio Cordido hit solo homers in the fourth inning.

Suns feeling good Hagerstown's three-homer game rallies team to win By BOB PARASILITI bobp@herald-mail.com Today Lexington Legends Mike Naninni (5-2, 2.59) at Hagerstown Suns Boof Bonser (3-1, 2.35) Promotion: Washington County PTA Night Time: 7 Radio: WHAG 1410 Feelings. Nothing more than feelings. Sorry, Morris Albert. Your schlocky old love song solo was rewritten by the Hagerstown Suns on Thursday and turned it into a explosive duet.

Suns go mental in 9-1 loss to Legends By BOB PARASILITI bobp@herald-mail.com Today Lexington Legends Anthony Pluta (3-1, 2.75) at Hagerstown Suns John Thomas (0-2, 2.16) Promotion: Reduced-price drinks throughout the park Time: 7 Radio: WHAG 1410 Bill Hayes will be the first to tell you that there are definite measurements in baseball. For example, the mound is 60 feet, 6 inches from the plate and the bases are 90 feet apart.

Suns live, learn the hard way By CURT HORNBECKER / Staff Correspondent Today Lexington Legends Nick Roberts (2-1, 2.70) at Hagerstown Suns Kyle Gross (1-3, 2.83) Promotion: Businessperson's Special Time: 1 Radio: WHAG 1410 The best Bill Hayes could do was chalk it up to a learning experience. A series of bizarre plays and a string of Lexington extra base hits taught the Hagerstown Suns that they can't afford to give a good team too many chances.

Alexander's great in Suns' win Lexington Legends TBA at Hagerstown Suns Felix Diaz (1-3, 4.20) 7 p.m WHAG 1410 LAKEWOOD, N.J. - To say Kevin Alexander has started the season slowly for the Hagerstown Suns would be an understatement. Through 37 games the third baseman had fared well with his glove but had only five RBI. Finally, Monday against the Lakewood BlueClaws, Alexander's bat came to life. He hit his first home run of the season and double his RBI output for the season with five as Hagerstown continued its dominance over the expansion franchise, scoring a 10-2 victory in a South Atlantic League Northern Division game.