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The Richmond Flying Squirrels were held to five hits and gave up an early advantage in a 4-2 loss to the Erie SeaWolves Saturday afternoon at UPMC Park.Richmond 16-15 , the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, dropped out of first place with the loss and Erie 17-15 overtook them in the Southwest Division standings.Held hitless until two outs in the fifth inning,聽Simon Whiteman聽collected an infield single and聽Ismael Munguia聽doubled to place runners at second and third.聽Luis Matos聽drove an RBI single to right field, scoring Whiteman and pushed the Flying Squirrels to a 1-0 lead.The SeaWolves evened the score, 1-1, in the bottom of the fifth when Ben Malgeri knocked an RBI single against Richmond reliever聽Spencer Bivens聽 Loss, 0-1 .With two on and two out in the sixth inning, Grant Witherspoon rocketed a two-run double to left field and propelled the SeaWolves to a 3-1 advantage.The SeaWolves padded the lead to 4-1 when Dillon Dingler
stanley cup batted an RBI single against聽Randy Rodriguez聽in the bottom of the eighth inning.In the top of the ninth,聽Carter Williams聽drove in聽Brett Auerbach聽from third base off a groundout to cut the deficit to 4-2. Angel De Jesus Save, 2 re
stanley quencher sponded with a strikeout to close out the game and secure the SeaWolves victory.The Erie bullpen held the Flying Squirrels to three baserunners through the final four innings. Dario Gardea聽 Win, 2-2 struck out the side in order in the sixth
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In remarks on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine called on his colleagues to get serious about finding relief from across-the-board sequestration cuts as they begin consideration of the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act NDAA .Kaine announced his support for an amendment to NDAA introduced by U.S. Senator Jack Reed that would grant relief from sequestration cuts to both defense and non-defense accounts. The current legislation provides $38 billion in sequester relief to the Department of Defense by moving important funding lines into the Overseas Contingency Operations OCO account, a strategy Kaine described as a flagrant budget gimmick, but does not provide relief to non-defense agencies that are key to
stanley cup American national security. Nondefense accounts are critical to the nations defense, said Kaine. The FBI is nondefense; its critical to the nations defense.
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