Chapman leads way with six scoreless innings

The Shorebirds eliminated the BlueClaws from the first half championship race on Thursday night. On Friday, Lakewood returned the favor. The BlueClaws downed Delmarva 4-0 at Perdue Stadium to officially eliminate the Shorebirds from contention for the first half title. Chance Chapman had his strongest performance of the season, pitching six scoreless innings. He struck out a career-high nine hitters while walking just two. Chapman (4-4) also allowed just two hits.

Game played in front of 9,527 fans at FirstEnergy Park.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. - The BlueClaws offense was nowhere to be found on Friday night at FirstEnergy Park as Miguel Socolovich and two relievers held the BlueClaws to two hits in a 4-0 Kannapolis victory.

Lakewood, who was no-hit in their last game on Wednesday, did not manage their first hit until the sixth. It had been 15 1/3 hitless innings before Joel Naughton singled off of Socolovich with one out in the sixth. The BlueClaws have gone 23 innings without scoring a run and were shutout in back-to-back games for the first time this season.

Lakewood held to four hits in fourth loss in last five games

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Mike Durant hit his 12th home run of the season, but it was not enough as the BlueClaws fell to the Hagerstown Suns 5-1 on Wednesday night at Municipal Stadium. Durant's seventh-inning blast cleared the scoreboard to the deepest part of the ballpark, cutting the Suns lead to 2-1. It was his second home run since rejoining the BlueClaws from the disabled list over the All Star break.

Loss snaps six-game winning streak

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- For the third consecutive game the BlueClaws and the Asheville Tourists needed bonus baseball to decide an outcome. But unlike the first two games of the series, the Tourists claimed victory, notching a 6-5 12-inning win at McCormick Field on Tuesday night.

Stanton homers to give Grasshoppers 8-7 win

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The BlueClaws inability to close out a three-run ninth-inning lead led to the longest game of the season and a loss for Lakewood. Mike Stanton's league-leading 29th home run led off the bottom of the 15th inning and gave Greensboro a 8-7 victory on Tuesday night at NewBridge Bank Park.

Jared Simon gave up a three-run home run to Justin Jacobs in the bottom of the ninth that tied the game, 7- 7, and forced bonus baseball. Simon was in search of his 25th save of the season, but could not hold down the late lead built behind a batch of BlueClaws long balls.

Sampson lasts just three innings in rocky start

One day after recording their biggest victory of the season, the BlueClaws bats fell silent in a 6-3 loss to Kannapolis on Thursday night at FirstEnergy Park.  Lakewood had no trouble offensively on Wednesday night, tallying a 10-1 win, but on Thursday night it was a completely different story. The 'Claws managed just three hits in the final six innings and could not take full advantage of the few early opportunities they were afforded.

Lakewood squanders four-run lead

The Delmarva Shorebirds rallied from an early four-run deficit and put the game away late to hand the BlueClaws a crippling 11-6 loss on a hot Sunday afternoon at FirstEnergy Park. Lakewood twice led by four early at 4-0 and 6-2, but the Shorebirds blasted their way to six runs in the top of the sixth to take the lead for good. The four-run comeback was the largest allowed by the BlueClaws this season.

Lakewood still winless in games started by Diekman

The BlueClaws could not hold on to a late 3-0 lead against Kannapolis on Thursday night, dropping a 4-3 decision at Fieldcrest Cannon Park.  The Intimidators scored two runs in each of the sixth and eighth innings to erase the BlueClaws three-run lead. Danny Jordan drove in the game-winning run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning off of BlueClaws closer Jared Simon.

Lakewood strands 15 runners in loss

LAKEWOOD, N.J. - Round one of the BlueClaws only remaining series with West Virginia went to the Power, but Lakewood did not go down without a fight. West Virginia needed 12 innings to take a 6-5 victory to push their lead in the North Division to three games.

Lee Haydel picked up his first hit of the game in the 12th inning and it proved to be the game winner as a blooper over the head of a drawn in BlueClaws infield scored Anderson Delarosa from third and give the Power the decisive lead. Moises Melendez (3-2) got the following hitter to ground into a double play to end the inning, but the damage had been done.

Lakewood three back with eight to go

EASTLAKE, Ohio -- Lakewood's bats were absent on Sunday afternoon, as the BlueClaws dropped their third straight to Lake County, this time a 3-0 defeat at Classic Park.

Joanniel Montero got things going for the Captains with his best start of the season. The Lake County right-hander pitched five crisp innings, giving up just three hits in his time on the mound. Montero (4-6) also struck out a season-high six batters.