Hart Raps Punta Gorda for 5 Hits
A jubilant <Jim Hart:player#3144> joined the postgame press conference at St. Petersburg Park today to offer some unusual words of encouragement -- for the <Punta Gorda Bulldogs:team#70> pitching staff he had just vanquished.

"It may not have looked like it," said the <St. Petersburg Crocodiles:team#61> third baseman, "but I saw some awful good pitches today. If luck hadn't been on my side it might have turned out a lot different." 

That would not have been the conclusion of anyone who saw his dominant 5-for-5 hitting performance, which led the Crocodiles to a 13-1 win.

"He made it look easy," said  , manager of the Bulldogs. "We never figured out what to do with him. Obviously."

<Jim Hart:player#3144> was hit by a pitch in the 1st, hit an RBI single in the 2nd, hit a two-run home run off <Jurobei Nakamura:player#11332> in the 4th, hit an RBI single in the 5th, singled in the 7th and singled in the 8th.

This season <Hart:player#3144> is hitting at a .299 pace with 7 home runs, 29 RBIs and has scored 18 times.

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