Pirates fifth-round pick pitches five near-perfect innings By Alex Raskin / Special to MLB.com Tyler Waldron tossed five nearly perfect innings the State College Spikes came within three outs of a no-hitter Saturday in a 1-0 blanking of the Aberdeen IronBirds. The Pirates’ fifth-round pick in the 2010 Draft, Waldron (3-5) threw only 57 pitches, [...]

ABERDEEN, Md. — Austin Rauch’s single in the bottom of the 11th inning brought home the game-winning run as the Aberdeen Ironbirds handed the State College Spikes another road loss, 3-2 Friday night at Ripken Stadium. The setback was the Spikes’ third in four games on this road trip and fifth in their last six [...]

Written by Daniel Gallen Another tight pitcher’s duel spilled over into extra innings Friday night as it took 11 innings for the Aberdeen IronBirds to beat the State College Spikes 3-2 in yet another thriller in front of a record 6,897 at Ripken Stadium. With Cal Ripken, Jr. and Orioles Director of Scouting Joe Jordan [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Matt Curry stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the seventh, with a chance to break the game open. The State College Spikes first baseman ended the inning, however, sending a groundball that was flipped to second for the force out. [...]

Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — It’s a place the State College Spikes have been 14 times. It’s a place they just might end this season unless all three phases begin clicking at once. The Spikes will arrive at work today as a .500 team, a middling sensation they haven’t shaken 50 games into the New [...]

Southpaw allows no hits in five innings as Spikes take it, 4-2 STATE COLLEGE – Zack Dodson fired five innings of shutout ball, allowing just one walk and no hits to pick up the win as the State College Spikes clinched their first-ever series victory over the Staten Island Yankees with a 4-2 win at [...]

Dodson’s career outing leads Spikes to series victory Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — Introduce older competition to young pitchers. Watch them struggle, learn, adjust and eventually help a team win. Perhaps this was part of what the men who invest serious money into young arms want. One night after Zack Von Rosenberg propelled the State [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writers Zack Dodson did something Friday night he hadn’t in any of his seven prior starts of the season, and was relieved to have finally done it. Dodson pitched into the fifth inning for the first time in his young professional career. The 20-year-old allowed no-hits in his outing, and [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Walker Gourley stuck his bat out and pushed toward first base. Everybody else waited as Gourley sprinted. Would his bunt stay fair? Would it go foul? Some might have been pondering deeper questions. Would the State College Spikes eliminate memories of recent sloppy play? Would their season continue [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Gerlis Rodriguez laid down a sacrifice bunt, attempting to put two runners in scoring position in the bottom of the ninth. But the bunt by the State College Spikes designated hitter ended up doing more than that. Staten Island Yankees catcher Nick McCoy overthrew first base, and Spikes left [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — That didn’t last very long. A day after snapping a five-game losing streak, the Staten Island Yankees suffered another setback as an error in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the State College Spikes a 3-2 New York-Penn League victory Thursday night at Medlar Field. The loss dropped the Baby [...]

State College first baseman walks four times to set new mark STATE COLLEGE – Matt Curry set a new State College Spikes record by walking four times in one game, but Kramer Sneed and Mike Gipson combined to hold the Spikes to just one hit as the Staten Island Yankees took a 10-0 decision at [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Staten Island is visiting State College. It must be time for the Spikes to play some of their worst baseball. Instead of guarding their home field against the Yankees, the Spikes produce performances such as Wednesday’s 10-0 defeat. The game would have been best played on the road, [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Once Kelson Brown and Gift Ngoepe, two of the best fielders on the State College Spikes roster, committed back-to-back errors in the third inning, the Spikes were in for a rough night. The Spikes committed five errors, including three in the third inning, en route to a 10-0 loss [...]

By James Nicol For the Collegian Wednesday night’s State College Spikes game was delayed one-hour and 13 minutes, the Spikes offense looked like it thought the game had been cancelled. The spikes tied a franchise record by recording only one hit against the Staten Island Yankees in a 10-0 loss. Third baseman Kelson Brown was [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Despite comebacks in the seventh and eighth innings, the State College Spikes couldn’t overcome a final surge by the Jamestown Jammers. The Jammers broke open a tie with four runs in the eighth en route to a 10-6 win against the Spikes Tuesday night at Russell Diethrick Park in [...]

From CDT staff reports JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The State College Spikes will be happy to leave Diethrick Park. Especially the pitchers. The Jamestown Jammers put double- digit runs on the board for the second straight night, defeating the Spikes 10-6 on Tuesday to sweep the twogame series. Marcell Ozuna hit two home runs — a [...]

Marcell Ozuna of the Jamestown Jammers is certainly sad to see the State College Spikes leave town. All Ozuna did in the two-game sweep of State College was have five hits with three home runs and drive in eight runs, including five runs in the thrilling 10-6 victory Tuesday night in a New York-Pennsylvania League [...]

STATE COLLEGE — Chase Lyles delivered his team-leading fifth home run of the season, a solo shot to left field in the eighth inning, but it was not enough as the State College Spikes went down to defeat at the hands of the Jamestown Jammers, 11-3, on Monday night at Russell Diethrick Park. Lyles’s home [...]

From CDT staff reports JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — No stunning upset was in order this time for the State College Spikes. The Jamestown Jammers roughed up starter Colton Cain early and put the finishing touches on their 11-3 victory with another offensive outburst against two Spikes’ relievers on Monday at Russell Diethrick Park. Marcell Ozuna hit [...]