Pipkin Goes 5-for-7
<Kissimmee:team#65> right fielder <Ben Pipkin:player#12444> could do no wrong in today's 26-18 win over the Grasshoppers as he collected 5 hits. 

"Things were in his favor in every one of his at-bats," Grasshoppers skipper   said to the press corps after the game. "He got hitters' counts."

<Pipkin:player#12444> agreed, saying that getting ahead early in the counts was "the key" to his game.

"Once you get ahead, it makes it a lot easier because you get a better pitch to hit," he said. "You know the pitcher has to come in with it. And you're ready."

<Ben Pipkin:player#12444> doubled in the 1st, hit a GRAND SLAM off <Miguel Maldonado:player#11395> in the 2nd, hit an RBI single in the 4th, struck out in the 5th, hit a GRAND SLAM off <Gary Scheuble:player#12469> in the 6th, hit a two-run single in the 7th, flied out in the 8th and walked in the 9th.

This season <Pipkin:player#12444> is hitting .328 with 38 hits, 4 home runs, 30 RBIs, scored 25 runs and played in 28 games.

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