Thunders drop Defs 5-2 at Dodd...

tonight. That's the bad news. Good news that CT starter Henry Sosa is pretty good. A fast ball on the ballpark radar that was hitting 88-89 MPH and off speed stuff that was hitting 78-83 MPH. Challenges the hitters and works fast. He went 5 IP giving up a run. 2 hits , 2 BB and 5 Ks. The run he gave up in the third were solid singles sandwiched around a sac bunt. He has a nice presence to him out there; I'm looking forward to seeing him some more.
CT tied the game up in the fourth thanks the EME who doubled solidly up the left center gap and then screened the Thunder shortshop on a grounder as he went from second to third forcing an E6. EME then came home on a throwing error by the Thunder's third baseman.
Prior to the fourth inning CT had grounded into three DPs in the game. One was a 5-3-5 DP I had never seen before as Mike Mooney walked and then tried to go from first to third on a infield grounder. He almost made it. No reaction from Decker.
Poor Dan Griffin (0-1) relieved Sosa and the wheels came off the wagon. A hard grounder to first baseman Brett Pill, who dived fielding the the ball toward second and was unable to get the ball over to Griffin gave Trenton a leadoff single. Next batter hits a long fly in the left center gap that Bobby Felmy chased down only to have the ball tick off his glove for a double and put runners on second and third. A walk loads the bases with no outs. Trenton then went ahead on a RBI ground out and would push across two more runs on back to back fielding errors by Brian Bocock and Brock Bond to make the score 4-1.
CT got back a run on Mike Mooney's triple into the right field corner and then came across on a wild pitch.
Trenton came back to score a run off reliever Geivy Garcia to finish the scoring at 5-2.
CT managed just six hits in the game; two each from EME and Bond. Brad Boyer is now 0-30 to start the season.
Pics top to bottom: Griffin, Thunder starter Ivan Nova, Bocock, and Sosa