Final from Thursday night at First National Bank Field:
Greenville Drive 8, Greensboro Grasshoppers 7…10 Innings
WP:Alex Schreff(2-1)
LP:Bear Bellomy(5-2)
Hoppers(25-20/Drive(24-21
Drive' line: 8-6-2 Hoppers' line:7-9-0
Hoppers’ hitters:Matt Frazier 1-5/BB/Run…Matt Gorski 1-5/HR/Run/2 RBI…Liover Peguero 1-4/Run/BB…LoLo Sanchez 1-3/BB/HBP/Run…Fabricio Macias 2-4/HR/Run/2 RBI/BB…(Macias now batting a team-leading .336 for the season)…Jared Triolo 1-4/RBI…Chase Murray 1-5…Grant Koch 1-4/BB/HR/RBI/Run…Francisco Acuna 1-3/2 HBP/HR/Run/RBI…
GSO HR’s Macias(5) Koch(3) Acuna(2) Gorski(6)….Hoppers were down 7-2, going to the bottom of the seventh inning, but they got three HR’s and a total of 5 runs that inning, to tie the game up at 7-7….The Hoppers had the bases loaded with nobody out in the bottom of the 10th inning, down 8-7…The bases were loaded with Grasshoppers with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning….Then the bases were loaded with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Hoppers could never get the tying run or the winning run home…Hometown young man Brendan Nail(Page HS/Western Carolina University) was on the mound going/throwing an inning and a-third for the Drive on Thursday night…
Attendance:6,008
Time of Game/TOG-4:04