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, [...]

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 [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer The State College Spikes’ bullpen did nearly everything it could to give its team a chance to win Sunday night. After left-hander Zac Fuesser had a rough start, allowing three runs in his 3.2 inning start, the right-handed duo of Ryan Beckman and Mitch Fienemann held the Tri-City ValleyCats [...]

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 [...]

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State College Spikes – Pittsburgh Pirates (21-21) @ Auburn Doubledays – Toronto Blue Jays (15-27) Game #43 / Road Game #22 LHP Zack Dodson (1-2, 5.47) vs. RHP Daniel Webb (0-4, 6.23) Wednesday, August 4th: Half-Price Wednesday presented by Froggy 101, Daniel Moskos/Tony Sanchez Double Bobblehead Giveaway presented by P.J. Harrigan’s (First 1,000 Fans, All [...]

AUBURN, NY – The State College Spikeswere held to just two hits in the game, but took advantage of two eighth-inning errors by the Auburn Doubledays to plate a pair of runs and come from behind to earn a 2-1 victory at Falcon Park on Saturday night. State College (21-21) mustered two doubles in the [...]

AUBURN, N.Y. — The timing of the State College Spikes’ league-leading 50th double play couldn’t have been better. Ryan Beckman induced a 6-4-3 double play with the bases loaded in the ninth as the Spikes snapped a three-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory at Auburn on Saturday. Shortstop Gift Ngoepe, second baseman Kelson Brown [...]

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Spikes players help man battling cancer achieve his dream Lauren Boyer – lboyer@centredaily.com When the cancer that Larry Halstead is battling sidelined his plans to visit some ballparks in the Northeastern U.S., some State College Spikes players stepped up to the plate. Diagnosed with stage four melanoma in February, Halstead, 62, and his son Ryan, [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer In Monday night’s seventh inning, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers did something no team had done against the State College Spikes since Friday. They scored a run. The four runs the Scrappers scored were still not enough, however, as the Spikes pounded out ten hits on the way to a [...]

NILES, Ohio — The State College pitchers had their team record streak of 28 scoreless innings snapped, but the Spikes’ hurlers still threw well in a 6-4 triumph against Mahoning Valley in New York-Penn League action on Monday. Cole White had three hits and drove in three runs and Matt Curry had three singles as [...]

STATE COLLEGE – Gift Ngoepe went 3-for-4 and finished just a home run shy of hitting for the cycle, while Mel Rojas Jr. contributed four hits to power the State College Spikes to an 8-4 win over the Auburn Doubledays at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Thursday night. Ngoepe also knocked in a pair [...]

AUBURN, N.Y. — A huge second inning was all the State College Spikes really needed Monday night. A seven-run frame propelled State College past the Auburn Doubledays 14-5 at Falcon Park in the New York-Penn League. The Spikes (16-15), who took 2 of 3 in the series with double digits in runs in both wins, [...]

- From CDT staff reports NORWICH, Conn. — One night after erupting for 11 runs and 13 hits against the Connecticut Tigers, the State College Spikes’ bats fell silent. Clemente Mendoza shut the Spikes down, surrendering just two hits during an eight-inning pitching performance in a 5-0 victory Thursday night at Dodd Stadium. The Spikes [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Entering the game, Connecticut Tigers starting pitcher Clemente Mendoza had a robust 7.88 ERA. It didn’t show Thursday night. Mendoza threw eight shutout innings of two-hit baseball, and the Tigers beat the State College Spikes 5-0 Thursday night at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, Conn. It was just the second [...]

By Bill Landis Collegian Staff Writer A quick glance over the State College Spikes team pitching statistics doesn’t reveal any jaw-dropping numbers. The team’s ERA is 4.42, placing it in 11th place in the 14-team New York-Penn League. But over the last three games against the Vermont Lake Monsters, the performance of the Spikes pitching [...]

NEW YORK — One trip to Coney Island this season will be enough for the State College Spikes. Brooklyn pounded 13 hits, including four home runs, as the Cyclones completed a three-game sweep of the Spikes with a 9-3 rout on Saturday. Cory Vaughn belted a pair of home runs, while Ryan Sandoval and Kurt [...]

By Jake Kaplan Collegian Staff Writer Brooks Pounders’ shortest outing of the season foreshadowed how the State College Spikes’ pitching staff would fare the remainder of Monday night’s game. The Hudson Valley Renegades tallied 18 hits off five State College Spikes pitchers — including a ballpark-record seven hits in the sixth inning — as the [...]

Guy Cipriano UNIVERSITY PARK — The way Jhonathan Ramos pitched Monday during the sixth inning showed how the Hudson Valley Renegades forced the State College Spikes into playing their longest New York- Penn League game of 2010. Before a pitch during a bases-loaded at-bat, Ramos stepped behind the mound, dropped his hat, wiped sweat from [...]

STATE COLLEGE – The State College Spikes produced a five-run flurry in the fifth to take the lead, but the Hudson Valley Renegades responded with six runs of their own in the sixth, leading to a 12-7 win in a Monday night slugfest at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. The Spikes (10-8) and Renegades (7-10) [...]

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From CDT staff reports JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — State College mustered only two hits against Jamestown pitching Wednesday in a 6-0 loss to the Jammers at Diethrick Park. State College lost two of three to the Jammers after entering the series on a three-game winning streak. Adalberto Santos and Kyle Saukko had the lone hits for [...]

State College Spikes – Pittsburgh Pirates (3-5) @ Batavia Muckdogs – St. Louis Cardinals (4-4) Game #9 / Road Game #3 RHP Kevin Decker (0-0, 3.00) vs. LHP Anthony Ferrara (1-0, 0.00) -SPIKES HIT THE ROAD FOR FIVE: The State College Spikes start their first road trip of the season tonight as they face the [...]

Rodriguez goes 2-for-4 with 2 RBI STATE COLLEGE – For the first time in 2010, the State College Spikes took the first lead in the game, and never yielded as they downed the Jamestown Jammers, 6-2, at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park on Friday night. Chase Lyles knocked in Justin Bencsko with an RBI double [...]

Walt Moody UNIVERSITY PARK — It would be kind to say that State College’s Gerlis Rodriguez and Walker Gourley were “slumping” to start the New York-Penn League season. In fact, Rodriguez (.048) and Gourley (.083) combined were about 70 points short of the Mendoza line heading into their at-bats in the fourth inning. But when [...]

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES (A, Short Season) State College beat Jamestown 6-2.  Brooks Pounders made the start, allowing two runs on three hits in five innings, with no walks and two strikeouts.  Ryan Beckman pitched the final four innings, allowing no runs with just one walk and one hit allowed. Gerlis Rodriguez went 2-for-4 with a [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com UNIVERSITY PARK — Adalberto Santos donned his No. 50 jersey Sunday at Williamsport, where he stood by the Bowman Field dugout and watched his new team prepare to play the Crosscutters. Santos stood by the dugout for batting practice. He sat there once the game started. It wasn’t an ideal roadtrip. [...]

Youth, international flavor highlight new State College players STATE COLLEGE – The 2010 State College Spikes will come together for the first time this week at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, as several high picks from the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft and an array of players from across the globe are part of the [...]

Guy Cipriano – gciprian@centredaily.com One look at the list of professional baseball players arriving in State College today produces a telling conclusion about their parent club. Like the Pittsburgh Pirates themselves, the State College Spikes are relying on some of their level’s youngest players this summer. The average age of the first 25 players on [...]

Position: Pitcher Height: 6’4″ Weight: 180 Bats: Right Throws: Right Experience: Junior College Previous Team: Grayson County College Draft Position: 18th Round 4th pick (535th overall) More Info: Note: home schooled for most of his hs career.