Salt Lake Bees: Round Rock hammers the Bees 10-2

SALT LAKE CITY — The Round Rock Express stormed into Spring Mobile Ballpark Tuesday night and rocked the Bees 10-2. The bats were blazing for the Express as they piled up 13 hits to the Bees seven.

Veteran pitcher Roy Corcoran silenced the Bees bats for the first five innings, only giving up one run as the Express posted seven runs over those five innings. Meanwhile the Express roughed up 22-year-old Sean O'Sullivan, who got off to a shaky start but got out of the first inning with no damage.

But in the second inning he gave up four runs on five hits and Round Rock was off and running.

After Corcoran sailed through five innings, Yorman Bazardo came in and also stifled the Bees batters. Round Rock tacked on three more runs in the seventh inning and it was all but over.

One bright spot for Salt Lake was Amalio Diaz, who was called up Tuesday from double AA Arkansas and pitched one inning. He didn't give up a run, but was KO'd by a line drive and had to come out of the game.

"He looked pretty good, but we won't know the extent of his injury until tomorrow," manager Bobby Mitchell said.

"They came out aggressive," Mitchell said of the Express. "We have struggled offensively the last few games. We need to improve and cut down on the mistakes."

Salt Lake committed two errors, but Mitchell explained, "A couple of balls were pretty slowly hit and one came off the bat looking like a knuckleball."

Former Cottonwood High star Chris Shelton batted cleanup for Red Rock but didn't figure in the scoring, going 0-5 from the plate.

Jason Bourgeois pounded three hits and Oswaldo Navarro drove in four runs leading the Red Rocks to their 13th win against 19 losses.

Cory Aldridge knocked in one run for the Bees for his 29th RBI of the year, leading the PCL.

Salt Lake dropped below .500 to a 15-16 record. The two teams meet again tonight at 6:30.

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