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          <title>Reds in talks to take over Hillcats from Pirates</title>
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No major-league team has had a longer history in Lynchburg than the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have been the Hillcats&#8217; parent club since 1995.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Carolina League honors Hillcats&#8217; Sunwall</title>
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For the second time in his tenure as general manager of the Lynchburg Hillcats, Paul Sunwall has been honored with the Carolina League&#8217;s highest executive honor.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hillcats sweep Salem, clinch Carolina League&#8217;s Mills Cup</title>
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The Lynchburg Hillcats are the Carolina League champions, an 8-7 victory Thursday night at Salem Memorial Ballpark completing a 3-0 sweep against the Salem Red Sox.           ]]></description>
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          <title>No better time for his first dinger</title>
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Hillcats outfielder Jose De Los Santos is not a power hitter.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hillcats take lead in Mills Cup series</title>
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Behind another strong starting pitching performance and continued clutch hitting, Lynchburg tops Salem 9-2 in Game 1.           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Hillcats eliminate Wilmington, advance to finals</title>
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The Hillcats&#8217; 5-2 victory over Wilmington proved to echo the theme of the first half of the season, when Lynchburg won the division crown to earn a spot in this series.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:18:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats force fifth game in Northern Division playoffs</title>
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WILMINGTON, Del. &#8212; Lynchburg rallied from behind twice Saturday night to earn a 5-2 win over Wilmington and even the Northern Division Championship Series at two games apiece.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:01:04 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>High heat cools Hillcats&#8217; bats in opening game of playoffs</title>
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Before each game, Hillcats pitching coach Dave Howard shares his plan with the team. Wednesday&#8217;s plan: Lay off the high fastball, the specialty of Wilmington starter Eduardo Paulino.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:14:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hilcats open Carolina League playoffs tonight against Wilmington</title>
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Big-game experience. Justin Wilson has it, and that&#8217;s one of the reasons the Pittsburgh Pirates were drawn to the left-handed pitcher in the 2008 draft. Wilson was the starting pitcher for Fresno State when the Bulldogs completed their improbable run to a College World Series championship, beating Georgia in Game 3 of the CWS championship series.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:09:30 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats blank Red Sox 1&#45;0 behind strong pitching from Locke, Uviedo</title>
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Lynchburg pitchers Jeff Locke and Ronald Uviedo combined to shut out Salem as the Hillcats claimed a 1-0 victory Sunday at City Stadium.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:05:49 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>New batting helmet required in minors in 2010</title>
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Baseball&#8217;s top prospects will have even more protection at the plate next season.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:35:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Winston&#45;Salem scores six runs in the first inning, goes on to beat Lynchburg 7&#45;4</title>
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Winston-Salem scored six runs in the first inning en route to a 7-4 victory over Lynchburg on Sunday at Wake Forest Baseball Park. With the win, the Dash claimed a series victory over the Hillcats in the three-game set. The Hillcats will take on Potomac at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday at Pfitzner Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Blue Rocks complete four&#45;game sweep of Hillcats</title>
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The second-half Northern Division-leading Wilmington Blue Rocks continued to roll over the first-half champion Lynchburg Hillcats with a 7-2 Carolina League victory at City Stadium on Thursday.

The only drama involved in the game after the Blue Rocks (77-51) claimed a 7-0 lead in the top of the fifth inning was whether or not Wilmington&#8217;s starting pitcher, Alex Caldera, would give up a hit.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:05:43 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats&#8217; last seven batters strike out in 11&#45;inning loss</title>
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The Lynchburg Hillcats continued their struggles at the plate in key situations and Wilmington continued its dominance over the Hillcats this season with a 5-3 11-inning victory at City Stadium on Wednesday. 

In the first three games of the four-game series against the Blue Rocks, Lynchburg is a combined 5-for-39 at the plate with runners in scoring position.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:41:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Blue Rocks take Hillcats deep again</title>
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A night after a Wilmington grand slam off the bat of Ryan Eigsti and a solo shot from Mike Moustakas helped to put Lynchburg away, the Hillcats were again bit by the long ball.

Johnny Giavotella hit Ronald Uviedo&#8217;s fifth pitch of the game over the left-field fence, Clint Robinson led off the fourth with a bomb and Derrick Robinson sent a seventh-inning, full-count offering from Nate Adcock over the right field fence for a go-ahead two-run shot to seal a 4-2 victory for the Blue Rocks.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:46:53 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Eigsti celebrates birthday by slamming Hillcats</title>
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Wilmington catcher Ryan Eigsti celebrated his 24th birthday in grand fashion Monday in the Blue Rocks&#8217; 7-3 victory over the Hillcats at City Stadium.

Eigsti took a 3-2 pitch from Lynchburg starter Bryan Morris over the left field fence for a grand slam that put Wilmington up 6-0 over the Hillcats going into the bottom of the fourth inning.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:08:04 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats split doubleheader with Winston&#45;Salem at City Stadium</title>
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Lynchburg bounced back from a 6-3 loss in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Sunday night with a 6-0 victory in the nightcap against Winston-Salem. Jordy Mercer homered and drove in four runs in the double dip. Tonight, a four-game series with Wilmington kicks off starting at 7:05 p.m. at City Stadium.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:48:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats tie it in the ninth, lose it in the 13th</title>
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Six days after arguably the best start of Justin Wilson&#8217;s career, when he went seven innings and allowed no runs against 11 strikeouts, the 6-foot-2 right-hander threw another gem, this one a six-inning, five strikeout outing against Winston-Salem.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:06:10 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats Locke up a win in opener against Dash</title>
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Despite a 49-minute rain delay, Jeff Locke pitched five strong innings of one-run baseball and the bottom third of the order produced five hits to lead Lynchburg to a 5-1 win over Winston-Salem in the first game of a doubleheader Friday.

Nearly an hour after the rain started, second baseman Chase d&#8217;Arnaud delivered an RBI single up the middle that advanced De Los Santos to third. Third baseman Josh Harrison followed that up with a sacrifice fly to right to give the Hillcats a 2-1 lead. Those were all the runs Locke would need.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:45:04 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats beat Pelicans, 3&#45;0, behind superb pitching by Justin Wilson</title>
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Justin Wilson pitched a gem for Lynchburg on Sunday night, with seven shutout innings and 11 strikeouts in a 3-0 victory against Myrtle Beach at City Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:20:43 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Timely hitting eludes Hillcats</title>
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Hillcats manager P.J. Forbes concedes his team is struggling. But he denies anyone is going through the motions, waiting for Sept. 9 to arrive.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:13:29 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Weary Hillcats pitchers struggle in loss to Kinston</title>
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It&#8217;s evident enough from watching Hillcats pitchers Ronald Uviedo and Nate Adcock that both are tired. Uviedo hasn&#8217;t been the same since missing a month in the middle of the season with elbow tendinitis, and Adcock has already set a career high for innings pitched.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:53:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Morris makes most of fresh start with Hillcats</title>
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One can&#8217;t blame Bryan Morris for trying to find a positive spin to the recent events that led the Pirates to suspend him for more than a week. But as the Hillcats pitcher returned to the mound for the first time since the July 30 incident that triggered the suspension, he did just that, calling the last few weeks of the regular season a &#8220;fresh start.&#8221;

And with Pirates director of development Kyle Stark in attendance Wednesday at City Stadium, Morris was focused and determined, working into the seventh inning in Lynchburg&#8217;s 6-5 win against Kinston, earning his first victory since June 18.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:05:47 EST</pubDate>
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Paolo Espino wasn&#8217;t always this dominant against the Hillcats. Back in June, Lynchburg knocked the Kinston starting pitcher around in back-to-back starts to the tune of 15 hits and nine earned runs.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:33:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats score two in ninth, shut out host Indians</title>
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Lynchburg took advantage of a walk by Kinston relief pitcher Dallas Cawiezell, the second of two errors by the Indians and back-to-back singles by Jordy Mercer and Matt Hague to score the game&#8217;s only runs in the top of the ninth inning of a 2-0 victory, Monday night at Grainger Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:26:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Orlando boosts Blue Rocks over Hillcats</title>
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Paulo Orlando hit a two-run home run to left in the first inning and added a two-run double in a three-run fourth to lift the Wilmington Blue Rocks to a 6-4 victory over the Lynchburg Hillcats, their second in a row, Tuesday night at Frawley Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:41:20 EST</pubDate>
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Wilmington cleanup and designated hitter Cliff Robinson doubled to lead off the bottom of the fourth inning and scored the game&#8217;s only run on consecutive ground outs by Eric Hosmer and Nick Van Stratten as the host Blue Rocks opened their Carolina League series against the Lynchburg Hillcats with a 1-0 victory, Monday night before a crowd of close to 5,000 at Frawley Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:52:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Womack visits City Stadium for NABF ceremonies</title>
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After speaking at Thursday night&#8217;s National Amateur Baseball Federation World Series opening ceremonies at City Stadium, and throwing out the first pitch before the Lynchburg Hillcats played the Potomac Nationals, former Major League World Series champion Tony Womack shared some quality time with players from his alma mater.

The 1987 Gretna graduate who batted leadoff for the 2001 champion Arizona Diamondbacks, met with members of the Hawks&#8217; high school team participating in the NABF tournament, gathered under a tent down the first-base line.           ]]></description>
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The second it was hit Thursday night, Hillcat players jumped out of the dugout and watched, and watched, and &#8230; celebrated. Jordy Mercer&#8217;s two-out, 10th inning home run cleared the left-field wall, and everyone from the Lynchburg dugout raced to home plate to meet Mercer and celebrate.

The second it was hit Thursday night, Potomac pitcher Dan Leatherman and catcher Devin Ivany watched, and watched &#8230; and lost their minds. Gloves were slammed to the ground. Protests were loud. The ball was foul. They were convinced.           ]]></description>
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Eddie Prasch never knows when his next at-bat will come. He never knows when he&#8217;ll see him name scribbled on the lineup card that&#8217;s posted each afternoon in the Hillcats&#8217; clubhouse. It&#8217;s not exactly easy for the former third-round draft pick to find and stay in a groove           ]]></description>
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A 2009 first-round draft pick of the Washington Nationals was dealing heat Tuesday night at City Stadium.            ]]></description>
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It made no sense.           ]]></description>
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Since Pedro Alvarez and Miles Durham were promoted to Double-A Altoona nearly a month ago, the task of filling out a lineup card hasn&#8217;t been automatic for Hillcats manager P.J. Forbes. It used to be easy. Pencil Alvarez in the three hole, Durham in at No. 5. Plug Jose De Los Santos in at the top of the lineup, Matt Hague in the cleanup spot.           ]]></description>
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Ninth batter Ciro Rosero broke open a 4-4 tie with a two-run double to cap a four-run sixth inning, helping the Lynchburg Hillcats avoid a sweep with a 7-5 triumph in the fourth and final game of their series against the Potomac Nationals, Thursday night at Pfitzner Stadium.

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Despite two home runs from Lastings Milledge, his first in a Lynchburg uniform while on a rehabilitation assignment, the Hillcats lost to Carolina League Northern Division second-half leader Potomac for the third day in a row, 8-4 on Wednesday at Pfitzner Stadium.           ]]></description>
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Potomac turned four double plays and dealt the Lynchburg Hillcats a 7-3 setback in the series opener, Monday in Woodbridge.            ]]></description>
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Twelve games into the second half of the Carolina League&#8217;s season, only one Hillcat starting pitcher has claimed a victory: Matt McSwain on June 28 at Salem.           ]]></description>
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R.J. Rodriguez signed on with the San Diego Padres in 2006, but they released him in April after spring training. With the Lynchburg Hillcats&#8217; pitching coach as an ally - not to mention a fastball that hits the low 90s - Rodriguez secured a new gig.           ]]></description>
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Both Eric Fryer and his roommate in Tampa, Fla., had been involved in trades in 2009. So as the two Tampa Yankee teammates sat around earlier this week, Fryer&#8217;s roommate made an interesting comment.           ]]></description>
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Thursday&#8217;s 10-run outburst at Winston-Salem seems like an anomaly for the Hillcats, who have scored four runs or fewer in seven of their nine second-half games.            ]]></description>
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Potential seems to be a buzzword in the Steel City these days.
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With a Carolina League playoff berth already secured, Lynchburg is quickly becoming a breeding ground for experiments.           ]]></description>
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The Lynchburg Hillcats split a short two-game road trip with a 6-2 loss to the Salem Red Sox on Monday at Lewis-Gale Stadium.           ]]></description>
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Jordy Mercer hit his eighth home run of the season, Matt McSwain picked up his seventh win and Lynchburg ended Salem&#8217;s three-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory Sunday.           ]]></description>
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The ovation Friday was polite, the words encouraging. Still, Jamie Romak wishes he had never heard the calls from the City Stadium crowd as he strolled to he plate for the first time.           ]]></description>
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The &#8220;illness&#8221; that plagued Jacob Thompson during his junior year at Virginia wasn&#8217;t an illness at all, at least in the traditional sense.            ]]></description>
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Cole Rohrbough&#8217;s season started smoothly enough. The Atlanta farmhand allowed no more than one earned run in any of his first five starts, but May 28 against Winston-Salem, things took a sudden turn for the worse.           ]]></description>
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As several Hillcats celebrated promotions Sunday afternoon, others sat quietly as the chaos unfolded around them. Players gave Pedro Alvarez, Michael Dubee, Dustin Molleken and Miles Durham congratulatory hugs and handshakes before sitting back down to contemplate what would be next for those who remained in Lynchburg.           ]]></description>
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By any measure, Hillcats manager P.J. Forbes&#8217; major-league playing career was brief. Twelve games. Seventeen at-bats. Three hits. But what that career lacked in length, it more than made up for in memorable moments.           ]]></description>
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Though Jeff Locke&#8217;s first two starts as a Hillcat have been decent, he&#8217;s had one regret &#8212; he&#8217;s been able to watch the sun set from the dugout.           ]]></description>
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Last week, when Frederick made its final first-half visit to City Stadium, the Hillcats beat the Keys twice, each game decided by a single run, including one game in which Frederick out-hit Lynchburg 16-5.           ]]></description>
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For Milver Reyes, the work day starts early. He heads to City Stadium by noon to lift weights and run, well before the rest of the team arrives. At 4 p.m., he suits up and takes batting practice with the rest of the Hillcats. But unless catchers Kris Watts or Joel Collins are injured, Reyes won&#8217;t get a single at-bat this season, at least not in Lynchburg.           ]]></description>
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Joel Collins and Chris Cullen had spent four years playing for Team Ontario, a youth travel club in their home Canadian province, and when the two friends were 17, they figured their days of playing together were over.            ]]></description>
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Jeff Locke&#8217;s season began to unravel in Lynchburg on May 6, when the left-handed pitcher allowed a season-high 11 hits in five innings against the Hillcats.            ]]></description>
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The Hillcats&#8217; series opener at Wilmington Thursday was postponed due to rain in northern Delaware.           ]]></description>
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Another quality start from pitcher Matt McSwain and some timely hitting contributed to the Lynchburg Hillcats 6-1 victory over the host Frederick Keys on Tuesday night.           ]]></description>
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Lynchburg rallied from a three-run deficit Monday in Frederick and beat the Keys 5-3 to keep its five-game lead in the Carolina League North intact.
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No need to panic just yet, but that&#8217;s two straight subpar performances by the Lynchburg Hillcats&#8217; lineup.           ]]></description>
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The transition from college baseball to the minor leagues can be a difficult one, especially when a pitcher doesn&#8217;t get the luxury of settling into a groove against rookie-ball hitters. That&#8217;s been the case for Hillcats starter Justin Wilson, the winning pitcher in the final game of the 2008 College World Series.           ]]></description>
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Go to any amateur baseball game, from college to high school to Little League, and the calls from the crowd are unmistakable. Any time a pitcher makes a strange pickoff move, the screams of &#8220;Balk! Balk!&#8221; cascade through the crowd.           ]]></description>
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Josh Papelbon had to check his ego at the door when he decided to try this professional baseball thing. 
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John Smoltz skipped Salem in his injury rehabilitation assignment Tuesday, which deprived Lynchburg baseball fans of seeing one of the major league&#8217;s all-time great pitchers. 

But even Smoltz would have found it difficult to match Hillcats starting hurler Chi-Hung Cheng and Lynchburg&#8217;s relief corps. 

Cheng threw five scoreless innings and relievers Dustin Molleken and R.J. Rodriguez completed the shutout in a 4-0 win over the Red Sox at City Stadium.           ]]></description>
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The Lynchburg Hillcats extended their lead over the Potomac Nationals to one and a half games in the Carolina League&#8217;s Northern Division with a 13-5 victory in Friday night&#8217;s series opener at Potomac.

Lynchburg got its offense going right off the bat in as Jose De Los Santos opened the game with his third triple of the season and scored on a double by Jordy Mercer, who was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple.

One out later, Matt Hague doubled to center and scored on a single by Miles Durham for an early 2-0 lead.           ]]></description>
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The Hillcats received a solid outing from starting pitcher Paul Mildren, who allowed two runs on eight hits in six innings, and reliever Moises Robles (two scoreless innings), but their offense stalled in a 3-2 loss to the Frederick Keys on Thursday at Harry Grove Stadium.
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The Hillcats missed out on facing Orioles top pitching prospect Brian Matusz when the Frederick Keys were in Lynchburg a month ago. They weren&#8217;t so lucky in their trip to Maryland.

Matusz, the No. 4 overall pick in last year&#8217;s draft, struck out nine and allowed four hits and three runs in a 9-5 Keys win Wednesday at Harry Grove Stadium.

Keys shortstop Pedro Florimon Jr. went 3-for-4 with a solo home run, triple, three RBIs and three runs.            ]]></description>
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Ronald Uviedo pitched five strong innings, and the Hillcats broke a tie with a run in the top of the sixth in a 2-1 win at Frederick Tuesday night.           ]]></description>
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Pedro Alvarez hit a game-tying, solo home run in the ninth inning and the Hillcats broke the game open with five runs in the top of the 11th as Lynchburg beat Frederick 13-9 Monday night at Harry Grove Stadium.           ]]></description>
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The timing couldn&#8217;t have been worse for Matt McSwain. Toward the end of his career at Elon, right when players are positioning themselves for prime draft position, McSwain blew out his pitching elbow, and Tommy John surgery was the only fix. He never pitched another inning of college baseball.           ]]></description>
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In his first six at-bats of this series, Mike Moustakas did very little to remind folks why he was the No. 2 pick overall pick in the 2007 MLB first-year player draft and the Kansas City Royals&#8217; top-rated prospect. After driving in a run with a dribbler to right field in his first at-bat Friday, the Wilmington third baseman went hitless in his next five trips to the plate, only once getting the ball out of the infield.           ]]></description>
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A quartet of Winston-Salem Dash pitchers combined to allow only four hits and strike out 11 in a 4-3 win over the Lynchburg Hillcats at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Wednesday night.           ]]></description>
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The Hillcats became the first Carolina League team to reach 20 victories Tuesday, using a four-run fifth inning as a springboard to a 6-2 win at Winston-Salem.
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Consider this when evaluating Pedro Alvarez&#8217;s performance in the first month of the Hillcats&#8217; season. The prized Pittsburgh Pirates prospect hasn&#8217;t truly found a rhythm since he was a junior at Vanderbilt in 2007. And as Hillcats hitting coach Dave Howard points out, hitting is all about rhythm and timing.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:20:45 EST</pubDate>
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The Atlanta Braves could use a couple more young sluggers in their slumping lineup these days.
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The Toronto organization was convinced Chi-Hung Cheng wasn&#8217;t the same pitcher that he was before he underwent surgery on his left shoulder. Cheng was a workhorse for two seasons for Toronto&#8217;s low-A affiliate in Lansing, Mich., racking up 280 1/3 innings, an 18-11 record and a 2.92 ERA in 2005 and 2006.           ]]></description>
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Kinston southpaw Eric Berger has experienced highs and lows as drastic as his 12-to-6 curveball in his recovery from Tommy John surgery on his left elbow three years ago.           ]]></description>
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Some of Kent Sakamoto&#8217;s early-season struggles might have been the result of him pressing too much to pull the ball over the outfield wall. Ironically, it was a different approach that led to the Lynchburg Hillcats designated hitter&#8217;s first two home runs of the season Friday night at City Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 00:14:31 EST</pubDate>
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At some point, the victories will come for Hillcats pitcher Ronald Uviedo. Until then, he&#8217;ll have to be satisfied with stringing together strong performances.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:05:03 EST</pubDate>
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Brian Matusz certainly doesn&#8217;t have the ego of a 22-year-old multi-millionaire. The Orioles&#8217; top pitching prospect has an easy-going demeanor, his speech peppered with &#8220;yes sir&#8221; and &#8220;nice to meet you.&#8221; That&#8217;s all fine and good when dealing with teammates in the clubhouse or with fans seeking an autograph. Frederick Keys pitching coach Kennie Steenstra just wishes the young southpaw didn&#8217;t take that humility with him to the bump.

&#8220;If anything, I&#8217;d like him to get a little cockier out there on the mound,&#8221; Steenstra said. &#8220;At times, he doesn&#8217;t trust his stuff enough. I don&#8217;t think he realizes how good his stuff really is.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:30:02 EST</pubDate>
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Two years ago, Phillies farmhand Michael Dubee was pitching for the Lakewood BlueClaws in the South Atlantic League when he was traded in mid-season to the White Sox organization for second baseman Tad Iguchi.           ]]></description>
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Lynchburg fell 8-7 in 10 innings of action in the rubber match of a three-game set at Wilmington on Sunday.            ]]></description>
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Winston-Salem&#8217;s Miguel Socolovich was down 3-1 to Pedro Alvarez when he tricked the Pirates&#8217; top prospect, throwing an inside changeup on a traditional fastball count. Alvarez swung through it, grimaced and shook his head.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:20:23 EST</pubDate>
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Winston-Salem&#8217;s Miguel Socolovich was down 3-1 to Pedro Alvarez when he tricked the Pirates&#8217; top prospect, throwing an inside changeup on a traditional fastball count. Alvarez swung through it, grimaced and shook his head.           ]]></description>
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Jordy Mercer didn&#8217;t come to Lynchburg with the same sort of hype that accompanied his 2008 draft classmate, Pedro Alvarez. But plenty was expected from Mercer, the Pirates&#8217; third-round pick who spent three years at Oklahoma State.            ]]></description>
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Inning-by-inning replay of Monday&#8217;s Hillcats-Dash game at City Stadium           ]]></description>
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Before last season began, the Pirates&#8217; front office made a fundamental change in how the organization&#8217;s pitchers were taught.           ]]></description>
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Four days. Four designated hitters. It&#8217;s not a sign of indecisiveness on Hillcats manager P.J. Forbes&#8217; part. Not at all. He wants to keep his hitters fresh, engaged and involved and doesn&#8217;t want anyone languishing on the bench for too long.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:05:46 EST</pubDate>
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Summary of Friday&#8217;s second game of the Lynchburg Hillcats season, a 14-7 victory over the Potomac Nationals at City Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:26:04 EST</pubDate>
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Ray Chang&#8217;s timing was perfect. Last offseason, he was in China acting as a coach at a Major League Baseball youth camp. While there, he met China&#8217;s president of baseball operations. After a brief conversation, Chang was asked to play for Team China in this spring&#8217;s World Baseball Classic.

Never mind that Chang was born in Kansas City, Mo., lives in Leewood, Kan., and played college ball at Rockhurst University in Kansas. His Chinese heritage was enough to earn him a spot on the team.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:19:17 EST</pubDate>
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The kind fan in the Cincinnati Reds cap just had just one request &#8212; a signed bat.

He had run all the way behind the center field wall at City Stadium to fetch the ball that Pedro Alvarez crushed for his first professional home run, a blast that gave the Hillcats the lead for good Thursday night in their season-opening 6-5 victory over the defending Carolina League champion Potomac Nationals.

As Alvarez signed autographs for fans 15 minutes after the final pitch, the fan handed Alvarez the ball, and Alvarez dutifully headed back into the clubhouse to nab a bat.

Certainly, Alvarez made a good first impression on his new fan base. He went 3 for 4 and drove in four runs, slammed a two-run opposite field home run and rapped a two-run double in the seventh that provided the winning margin.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:56:14 EST</pubDate>
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Pedro Alvarez, the No. 2 pick in last June&#8217;s MLB first-year player draft and a Scott Boras client, agreed to a four-year, $6.35-million deal with the Pirates in late September, but only after a protracted holdout that cost Alvarez any chance of getting his feet wet in rookie ball last summer.

The contract dispute may have cost the 22-year-old Alvarez experience, but it was a boon for fans of the Lynchburg Hillcats, who open play tonight at 6:05 against the Potomac Nationals at City Stadium.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:06:29 EST</pubDate>
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The Pedro Alvarez saga in Pittsburgh has reached an end. The Pirates&#8217; first-round draft pick was in Pittsburgh Wednesday morning, presumably for a physical, and he signed a contract later in the day, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.           ]]></description>
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The Pirates promised a new day when the franchise completely overhauled its management from top to bottom in the offseason, hoping to end 15 years of futility and restock a minor league system in disrepair.
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The Hillcats&#8217; Chris Jones sent the Lynchburg fans home happy on the final day of the season by driving in the game-winning run with a double in the bottom of the eighth as the Hillcats extended their winning streak to four with a 3-2 victory over Salem at City Stadium on Monday afternoon.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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Hillcats catcher Kris Watts found himself in the middle of nearly all the action in Lynchburg&#8217;s four-run, eighth inning rally that led to a 9-7 victory over Salem at City Stadium on Sunday.
Trailing 7-6 with one run already having crossed the plate on an error by Avalanche first baseman Jimmy Van Ostrand and runners on second and third, Watts roped a double into the gap in right center to score Kent Sakamoto and Eddie Prasch and put the Hillcats up 8-7.           ]]></description>
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The Hillcats wasted little time dispatching Salem, 4-0, on Saturday in front of nearly 3,000 fans who were on hand at City Stadium for the final fireworks display of the season.           ]]></description>
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Playoffs? No, the Hillcats and Avalanche won&#8217;t be making those this year.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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It was another soggy, miserable night for the Hillcats as Frederick scored seven runs before Lynchburg got its first hit and the Keys cruised to a 7-3 victory Tuesday at City Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:58:00 EST</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s hard to tell which aspect of the Hillcats&#8217; 5-0 loss to Frederick on Monday was more embarrassing:
1) the five errors they committed, or &#8230;
2) the one hit they managed all night.
Either way, it added up to a loss as Lynchburg (25-38) began its final seven-game stretch of the season.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Hillcats save face, lose game</title>
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Three outs separated the Hillcats and their first win in a week, a one-run lead serving as their only buffer between victory and a four-game sweep at the hands of visiting Winston-Salem.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Hillcats&#8217; August is quickly deteriorating into a real-life version of the movie &#8220;Groundhog Day.&#8221;
Another day, another poor offensive showing, another loss, with no end in sight.           ]]></description>
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