LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bryant's Travis Wood earned his first victory at the Class AAA level as the Louisville Bats downed the Charlotte Knights (New York Yankees), 2-0.
Wood, making his third start since being promoted from the Carolina Mudcats to the Louisville Bats in the Cincinnati Reds organization, worked seven shutout innings, allowing just three hits and two walks while fanning four. Ramon Ramirez worked a scoreless eighth and Logan Ondrusek closed for his second save.[more]
Wood worked around a two-out single in the first. In the second, he issued a lead-off walk but induced a doubleplay ball then struck out former major leaguer Wilson Betemit to retire the side. After retiring the side in order in the third, the lefty gave up a lead-off single in the fourth but followed by getting a pop up, a strikeout and a groundout to keep Charlotte off the board.
In the meantime, Louisville's Chris Denove gave Wood and the Bats a lead with his first AAA homer with one out in the bottom of the third.
In the fifth, Wood retired former Major Leaguer Daryle Ward then walked Betemit. But a strikeout and a groundout ended the inning. The only baserunner to get past first for Charlotte came in the sixth when Norris Hopper doubled inside the first-base bag with one down. A grounder to short got the runner to third but Wood got the final out on a tap back to the mound to preserve the shutout.
Wood finished his work for the night by plowing through the heart of the Charlotte order in the top of the seventh, getting the Yankees' prize prospect Josh Fields to fly out then Ward and Betemit to groundout.
Louisville added a run in the eighth on an RBI double by Darnell McDonald to set the final score.
Wood is now 1-1 with a 2.89 earned run average at Louisville. He's 10-4 overall this season.
