The dimensions at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park read 399 feet to dead center field.
In the first inning of last night's game, Spikes' clean-up hitter Calvin Anderson belted a 2-0 fastball high off the black netting beyond the centerfield wall.
"Maybe 420, 430 [feet]," Anderson said. "I hit [the net] three to four times in batting practice, and it felt just like batting practice."
The three-run homerun didn't hold up long, as Jamestown plated two runs in the second to jumpstart their offense en route to a 13-5 victory over State College (8-23) last night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.
Anderson went 2-for-3 with a homerun, a triple and four RBIs.
In the third inning, Jammers designated hitter Mitch Macdonald hit a ground ball toward Anderson. But accompanying the ball was an airborne bat barrel that landed just beyond a diving Anderson.
Then in the sixth, when Jammers shortstop Joel Staples struck out, the pitch eluded catcher Mark Carver, who had to scramble all the way back toward the backstop to throw Staples out.
Carver's throw took a long hop and nailed him square in the face, leaving Anderson spitting up blood and with a fat lip. Anderson then roped an RBI triple his next time up.
Anderson's blast put a three in the first inning runs column for the second straight night. But the fast start was unable to hold up as the Jammers' offense tagged Spikes' starter Emilis Guerrero for five runs in five innings -- a deep outing for a pitching staff that's on a controlled pitched count.
The Jammers (21-9) continued to pound the State College pitching. Jammers third baseman Paul Gran got on base six times -- becoming the second player to do so at Medlar Field. He capped off his night with a two-run double in the ninth, part of a five-run ninth that saw nine Jammers come to the plate.
"I don't know if I ever got on base six times," Gran said. "I had two four-pitch walks, and that doesn't happen very often at all."
With the game tied at five after five innings, reliever Yoffri Martinez entered the game in the sixth and pitched a scoreless inning.
But Martinez began the seventh walking the first two batters on eight pitches. Then, the Jammers' Ernie Banks laced a triple to put Jamestown in front for good.
Gary Amato came into the game in the ninth, but surrendered five earned runs on five hits to squash any ninth-inning rally the Spikes may have generated.
"[Martinez] had trouble getting the ball over," manager Brad Fischer said. "You're gonna get those inconsistencies with young players.
"That's why the bullpen in the minor leagues is hard to manage because you never know from one game to the next exactly what you're gonna get. If they were consistently good all the times, they'd be at the next level up."
