PEEPLES WINS 400th​

PEEPLES WINS 400^th

Ball Tosses Seven Innings in Victory

After a pair of gut wrenching losses on Wednesday evening, the Lancaster Stormers put together one of the best all-around performances early Thursday in an 8-2 win over Southern Maryland at Regency Furniture Stadium.

The win was the 400^th in the managerial career of Ross Peeples.  With the victory, he also becomes the 10^th winningest manager in Atlantic League history.

Nile Ball (3-1) fired seven solid innings, yielding six hits and two runs.  He walked one and struck out seven.  The right-hander allowed a two-out RBI single by Michael Wielansky in the third and a leadoff homer by Alan Alonso in the fifth.  With the win, Ball now has 24 in a Lancaster uniform, giving him sole possession of fifth place on the franchise’s all-time list.

Chris Proctor went 4-for-5 to spur the offense.  He triggered a five-run second inning with a one-out bunt single off Garrett Martin (2-1).  Joseph Carpenter singled Proctor to third, and Justin Farmer walked to load the bases.  Jack Conley’s deep fly to center advanced all three runners.  Trace Loehr followed with a two-run single into left for a 3-0 lead.  Loehr took second on Anthony Brocato’s throw to the plate and scored when Alonso dropped Shawon Dunston, Jr.’s infield pop up.  Nick Lucky gave the Stormers a 5-0 lead with a single to left.

Conley chimed in with a leadoff homer in the fourth.  Doubles by Cristian Santana and Proctor produced Lancaster’s seventh run.  Carpenter picked up an RBI with a ground ball in the seventh.

Ted Stuka and Jackson Rees combined to retire the final six Blue Crabs of the day after Wielansky reached Stuka for a leadoff double in the eighth.

The Stormers and York Revolution will complete a suspended game at 4:00 on Friday afternoon.  York leads, 5-0, in the top of the fourth.  The regularly scheduled game will begin at 6:45 and last seven innings.  All the action may be followed on FloBaseball.

NOTES:  With three hits, Santana has hit safely in 16 of 17 games and is now batting .391…Proctor boosted his average to .373…Ball now has 310 strikeouts as a Stormer and needs 13 more to tie Peeples for second on the list…Peeples needs 52 more wins to catch Butch Hobson for the top spot in Lancaster franchise history.