Jesse Floyd pitches 7 strong innings and RBIs come

from a pair of unlikey sources tonight as the Defenders nip the RockCats 2-1. Back to back doubles by Jon Armitage and Andy Busch tied the game in the fifth for Connecticut. In the bottom of the seventh singles by Brian Horwitz and Nate Schierholtz put runners on first and third and Armitage got his first Defender RBI of the season on a sac fly for the game winner.
Scott Munter pitched 1.2 innings and Billy Sadler got the final out for his 11th save. Floyd improves to 2-9 and has pitched way better than that record shows.
Misc fan notes: A bunch tonight and let us start with a 3 for 4 for Horwitz. Hopefully the walk off HR last night as jumped started him. Schierholtz went 2 for 4 getting the key hit that put Horwitz on third to score of the Armitage SF and could have been 4 for 4 on the night as he grounded deep in the hole and was just nipped at first and in his last at bat missed a HR down the line by a few feet. Travis Ishikawa flashed some nice leather robbing a RockCat of a RBI double for an out, making a nifty tag on a pick off by Floyd (he has a real nice move for a RH pitcher and had a pretty big smile when he came off the field after the pick off), and made another put out in the top of the ninth with a pair of runners on of a foul ball with his back to the plate.
Andy Busch didn't start, Munhall was stepped on at a play at the plate and had to leave the game.
Both Munhall and Floyd watched the end of the game up on the concourse just outside the Defender locker room and Jeese was one happy guy when Billy got the final out.
4800 in the park tonight; great weather and fireworks. I usually don't stay around for the fireworks but they got them up and going right after the game. Nice display.
Jason Waddell gets a spot start in the DH Saturday.
Props to the guys who did the LandRover t-shirt toss tonight. More than the usual amount tossed and shot into the crowd and some good distance of some of them.