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The Greensboro Grasshoppers made a strong comeback or two on Sunday, as they defeated the Lexington, Kentucky Legends and won their season-opening series, at NewBridge Bank Park….

The Hoppers won the game 9-8 and they took the series from Lexington, three-games-to-one…The Hoppers trailed early on Sunday, 3-0, after a three-run home run by Lexington’s Zach Johnson in the top of the first inning, but the Hoppers bounced back with six runs in the second, to take a 6-3 lead over Lexington….The Legends came back to make it 6-5 and the Lexington tied the game at 7-7 in the 7th and they moved in front
of the Hoppers 8-7, in 8th….

Then the Hoppers staged their comeback, with first off, one run to tie the game in the bottom of the 9th, at 8 a-piece and then the Hoppers loaded the bases and Tony Caldwell drew a bases-loaed walk to bring in Ryan Goetz and the Greensboro Grasshoppers won the game and moved to (3-1) on the young season…..Lexington committed 6 errors on Sunday, but the walks did in the Legends in the end and we got a chance to see a Walk-off walk on Sunday in the win….Josh Adams had a big single to right field to drive in the tying run in the 9th and then Tony Caldwell worked pitcher Jason Chowning, for the game-winning walk…..Two hits each for Adams, Brent Keys and Ryan McIntyre on Sunday and Terrence Dayleg led the way going 3-5 with 2 RBI….

See the game box score below from the South Atlantic League:

Lexington 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0  8 11 6 
Greensboro 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 2  9 11 1

WP: Cravey (1-0, 3.00)
LP: Zuloaga (0-1, 4.50)

Lexington Legends
Player Pos AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG
Delino DeShields, Jr. 2B 4 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 .357
Jordan Scott LF 4 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 .615
Zachary Johnson 1B 5 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 2 .273
Matt Duffy 3B 5 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 .200
Mike Kvasnicka DH 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Emilio King RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000
Justin Gominsky CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Alex Todd SS 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .200
Miles Hamblin C 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 .333

BATTING
HR: Johnson, Z (1, 1st inning off Lowell, 2 on, 0 out), Hamblin (1, 8th inning off Cravey, 0 on, 2 out).
TB: Scott 3; Hamblin 4; Johnson, Z 5; DeShields 3; Duffy 2.
RBI: Johnson, Z 3 (3), DeShields (3), Scott (4), Duffy 2 (2), Hamblin (1).
2-out RBI: Hamblin.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Johnson, Z; King.
Team RISP: 5-for-9.
Team LOB: 5.

BASERUNNING
SB: DeShields (2, 3rd base off Lowell/Caldwell), Scott 3 (3, 2nd base off Lowell/Caldwell, 2nd base off Omahen/Caldwell, 2nd base off Cravey/Caldwell), Duffy (1, 2nd base off Omahen/Caldwell).

FIELDING
E: Duffy (1, fielding), DeShields 2 (2, throw, fielding), Gominsky (1, throw), Gouvea (1, pickoff), Zuloaga (1, fielding).
DP: (DeShields-Todd-Johnson, Z).

Greensboro Grasshoppers
Player Pos AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG
Brent Keys CF 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 .538
Austin Barnes 2B 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 .417
Terrence Dayleg 1B 5 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 1 .412
Rand Smith LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .154
a- Ryan Goetz PH-LF 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286
James Wooster RF 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .231
Josh Adams 3B 5 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 .500
Ryan McIntyre DH 5 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 .429
Tony Caldwell C 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 .571
Alfredo Lopez SS 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .200

a-Struck out for Smith, R in the 1st.
BATTING
2B: Adams (1, Dufek), Dayleg (2, Gouvea).
TB: McIntyre 2; Adams 3; Keys 2; Caldwell; Dayleg 4; Barnes.
RBI: McIntyre (4), Caldwell 2 (2), Barnes (2), Dayleg 2 (4), Adams (3).
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Wooster 2; Barnes 2.
SAC: Goetz.
GIDP: Lopez, A.
Team RISP: 5-for-15.
Team LOB: 10.

BASERUNNING
SB: McIntyre (1, 2nd base off Dufek/Hamblin).

FIELDING
E: Omahen (1, throw).
PB: Caldwell (1).
Outfield assists: Keys 2 (Scott at 2nd base, Scott at 3rd base).
DP: (Keys-Adams).

Lexington Legends
Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Jonas Dufek 4.0 6 6 4 4 2 0 9.00
Murilo Gouvea 3.0 3 1 1 0 2 0 3.60
Scott Zuloaga (H, 1)(L, 0-1) 1.0 1 2 1 1 0 0 4.50
Jason Chowning (BS, 1) 0.1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0.00
Greensboro Grasshoppers
Player IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Charlie Lowell 4.0 6 5 5 4 3 1 11.25
John Omahen 3.0 3 2 2 0 3 0 6.00
Kevin Cravey (W, 1-0) 2.0 2 1 1 0 0 1 3.00

Zuloaga pitched to 3 batters in the 9th.

WP: Lowell, Omahen.
Pitches-strikes: Dufek 40-24, Gouvea 15-15, Zuloaga 9-5, Chowning 8-4, Lowell 43-24, Omahen 20-18, Cravey 11-8.
Groundouts-flyouts: Dufek 9-1, Gouvea 3-3, Zuloaga 3-1, Chowning 0-0, Lowell 2-4, Omahen 2-2, Cravey 1-2.
Batters faced: Dufek 24, Gouvea 11, Zuloaga 6, Chowning 3, Lowell 21, Omahen 12, Cravey 7.
Inherited runners-scored: Chowning 3-2.
Umpires: HP: Dan Merzel. 1B: Andy Draper.
Weather: 75 degrees, sunny.
Wind: 10 mph, Out to LF.
T: 2:44.
Att: 3,749.