Vermont Lake Monsters

Vermont Get 10th Straight Win 5-4 Saturday

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BURLINGTON, VT — Keeler Vogt tossed five scoreless innings with seven strikeouts as the Vermont Lake Monsters won their 10th straight Futures League game with a 5-4 victory over the Westfield Starfires in front of 4,022 Saturday night on Delta Dental Diamond at Centennial FIeld. 

Vogt (Colby) allowed just four base runners over the five innings, including a one-out single in the second and a leadoff single in the fourth (two-out walk in second and one-out walk in fifth). He had at least one strikeout in every inning, including two in the first and the final two batters he faced in the fifth.

The Lake Monsters scored a pair of runs in the first on a Thomas Moss (Trinity TX) RBI single in the first and a throwing error allowing the second run to score. James Henshon (Tufts) tripled to right center in the third to plate Jake Dunlap (Catawba) before Vermont took a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the fifth on a run-scoring wild pitch and a Zach Geertsma (Mississippi State) sacrifice fly to the wall in right. 

The Starfires were able to cut the deficit to 5-4 with a run in the sixth followed by three more in the eighth on a solo homer and a two-out, two-run single, but Emmet Christian (Tufts) came on to retire the final Westfield batter of the eighth and induced three groundouts in the ninth for his first save.

MONSTER STARS
* Vogt (W) 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 7 SO
* Hunter Strohm (Mississippi State) 2-for-5, 2 R, 2B
* Christian (Sv) 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO

MONSTER HIGHLIGHTS
* Vermont  has won 10 straight for the first time since a 13-game win streak May 29-June 12, 2022
* Lake Monsters 28-10 record is their best-ever after 38 games (were 27-11 in 2022) 
* Lake Monsters are outscoring their opponent 76-39 over the 10-game win streak
* Strohm has now hit in 6 straight (13×25, .520) and 11 of last 13 (22×52, .423)
* Henshon extended his on-base streak (H, BB, HBP) to 21 straight with league-leading 3rd triple
* Eddie Rosado (St. Joseph’s PA) 1-for-4 and Justin Yeutter (Cal Poly Pomona) 0-for-3 in Monster debuts
* 2nd Centennial crowd over 4,000 this season (now averaging 2,562 per game this season)
* 2026 Lake Monster pitcher Kaiden McCarthy (Vermont Academy) was selected by the Atlanta Braves with 9th pick of 2nd round (48th overall) in Major League Draft Saturday
* 2023 Vermont infielder Eric Becker (Virginia) 19th pick in 2nd round (58th overall) by Virginia

UPCOMING 
Next Game: Sunday vs Westfield. 5:05pm  
Promotion:  Make-A-Wish Night!
Broadcast: WYCI (TV), FCBLnetwork.com (streaming), WJOY 1230am (radio)