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........................This Date in Silkworms History
................................July 3rd

July 3, 2007

Newport scored the game winner in the 12th inning in 5-4 win at Northwest Park in front of 720.

T. J. Baxter was 4 for 6 with an RBI in the losing cause for Manchester.

The game was tied 2-2 after nine innings and both teams scored a pair of runs in their  respective 10th innings.

July 3, 2006

 The Silkworms split a doubleheader with the Westerners in Danbury.

Jim Cassidy was the winning pitcher in the nightcap as the Worms won 9-3.  Aaron Garza, Jon Fixler, Gil Zayas and Andy Campana had two RBI apiece.

Cassidy hit a two run homer in the first game, which looked like it would be the game-winner, but the Westerners rallied to score two runs in the bottom of the seventh and final inning for the 5-4 win.

July 3, 2005

Manchester allowed four Vermont runs in the second – two of them unearned –  and couldn’t recover as the Mountaineers cruised to a 5-3 victory.

Steve Malinowski was 3 for 4 with a pair of dioubles and an rbi. Chris Legiardre scattered six hits over 5 1/3 innings, striking out five, but was tagged with the loss.

July 3, 2004

A scheduled off-day for the 10-9 Worms.

July 3, 2003

Eric Bushor pitched a 3-hit, complete game shutout against  Danbury at Northwest Park. Bushor struck out six and walked two in the brisk 2:07 game witnessed by 454. Jay Maule drove in Ryan Finan with a sacrifice fly with the game’s lone run in the fourth inning.

July 3, 2002

The Silkies are drubbed by the Danbury Westerners 11-2 before a crowd of 541 at Rogers Park in Danbury.
 July 3, 2001

Manchester allows double digit runs for the first of only two times during the year, falling to the Torrington Twisters before a crowd of 1731 at Fuessenich Park. Chris Denorfia doubled to lead off the second and later scored on a ground ball to give Manchester its first run in the second. Leadoff hitter Reid Gorecki scored the team’s second run in the eighth after opening the inning with a single.
July 3, 2000

After stretching their winning streak to a franchise-record four by rallying to win the opening game of the doubleheader, 8-6, the Silkworms wasted a brilliant complete-game effort by righty Ashton Stone in losing the nightcap 1-0 to the Rhode Island Gulls at Cranston (R.I.) Stadium.