Corey Cruz had a stellar pitching day with one hit allowed and six strikeouts in three innings of work, ... Bobby Tapley also had a shutout inning in relief against Oxford.

Kenny was pitching well until he got hit by that line drive and he battled his way through five innings.

Just one hit in nine innings, that's not bad at all.

It's always going to be a challenge to keep the strikeouts down with the personnel we have. We're trying to get those numbers down. But when you're scoring the most runs in the National League, I'll take that tradeoff.

We didn't know we could get three innings out of him. We sent him out there to get two. But he did so well and had such a low pitch count we sent him back for the third inning.

His pitch limit is 100. They don't give you anything extra for pitching nine innings.