Greensboro Grasshoppers put it in Overdrive and they run past the Greenville Drive on Tuesday night at First National Bank Field

Final from Tuesday night, at First National Bank Field:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 9, Greenville Drive 1
WP:Grant Ford(3-1)
LP:Jake Wallace(1-3)

Hoppers(24-19)/Drive(23-20)

Hoppers' line:9-13-2
Drive' line:  1- 5-2

Hoppers’ hitters:Matt Frazier 1-5/Run…Matt Gorski 2-5/2 Runs…Liover Peguero 1-3/HBP/SAC Bunt/2 Runs/RBI…Aaron Shackleford 1-4/BB/Run/RBI…Fabricio Macias 3-5/2 Doubles/Run/2 RBI…Jared Triolo 3-4/HBP/Double/HR/4 RBI/SB/2 Runs…LoLo Sanchez 1-4/HBP/RBI/SB…Grant Koch 0-1/3 BB’s…Will Matthiessen 1-4/Double…

HR:GSO Triolo #4…RBI:Triolo with 4 RBI and now with 29 on the season….Shackleford with RBI #32 for the season….Fabricio Macias with 2 RBI, and now with 31 RBI for the season…LoLo Sanchez with RBI #20 for the season…Peguero with RBI #14 for the season…
(For a Player of the Game, we would have to go with Jared Triolo tonight…Triolo with a HR/4 RBI/2 Runs/SB/and he was 3-4 at the plate, with a Double, to go along with his HR.)
Matt Frazier leaves the ballgame batting .316 and Fabricio Macias leaves the game batting a team-leading .326…

Hoppers’ pitching:
Hoppers’ starting pitcher Quinn Priester goes 3 1/3 innings, giving up one run on 3 hits, with 4 BB’s and 2 K’s…Short reliever Steven Jennings went 2/3’s of an inning, giving 0 runs/0 hits/0 BB’s/0 K’s…Jennings threw four pitches and four of his pitches were strikes…Long reliever Grant Ford goes three innings, giving 0 runs on one hit, with 1 BB and 2 K’s…Closer Bear Bellomy worked two innings, giving 0 runs, on one hit, with 0 BB’s/3 K’s….

Attendance:3,645
Time of Game/TOB-3:25

Game Two of the GSO Hoppers-GRN Drive series will be on Wednesday at 12 Noon…RHP Michael Burrows set to go for the Hoppers, and LHP Chris Murphy, ready to throw for the Drive…CLICK HERE to listen to the game LIVE, at GSOHoppers.com….