Gnats beat Colon/Kannapolis, 2-0

Chicago White Sox pitcher, Bartolo Colon, was at Grayson stadium on a rehab assignment pitching for Kannapolis. He was very effective when he made a lot of pitches at the knees. In seven innings he struck our 8 Gnats- 5 were the backward K variety(called third strikes). The radar gun had his fastball around 87-88. I noticied one 91 reading.
In the 6th inning, Colon elevated his pitches to waist high and the Gnats hit line drives scoring two runs in the inning which turned out to be all the runs they would need to win the game.
Josh Satin, batting in the fourth inning, hit a ball off his leg and left the game in the seventh inning.

Kannapolis beats Gnats in opening game.

It was a strange game last night at Grayson stadium with the Intimidators beating the Gnats 3-2. On one play the third baseman for the Gnats, Marte, charged a bunt and threw wild to first. Fans in the stands thought Marte should have let the ball roll to see if it would roll foul. Earlier in the game, Flores laid down a good bunt down the third base line and the ball rolled foul short of the bag at third. In the fifth inning, Kannapolis had runners on second and third with two outs when a ground ball was hit to Marte who elected to try to tag the runner between second and third. During the 5-6-1 rundown and before the tag was made, the runner on third scored which was the winning run. Mack, i think you were right months ago when you said you believed Marte should have started the season in a league other than the SAL. The good news is that Marte will soon have one year of pro ball experience behind him. Hopefully, when he returns to Savannah for the 2010 season, he will have a positive experience like Flores is having now.