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from Friday night at Frawley Stadium, up there in Wilmington, Delaware, home of the Wilmington BlueRocks, but tonight, it was the Greensboro Grasshoppers over the Wilmington BlueRocks, 7-3…
WP:Yunior Thibo(3-1)/Andry Lara(4-7)/SV:Dante Mendoza(1)
Hoppers-7-10-1 'Rocks- 3- 5-2
Greensboro Grasshoppers(42-41)
Wilmington BlueRocks(36-50)
Hopper Home Runs from Ernny Ordonez(#6) and Shawn Ross(#7)…A big Triple from the bat of Wyatt Hendrie…Doubles from Sammy Siani, Francisco Acuna, and Luke Brown…We saw RBI #65 of the season, from Jase Bowen…Hoppers produce 7 runs, off of 10 hits, while the Grasshoppers walked 8 times and struck out 10 times in this contest…There could have been more offense on the scoreboard for the Grasshoppers as they were 4-18 with Runners in Scoring Position, and the Hoppers left 10 men on base…
Overall you had you had Wyatt Hendrie 2-4/Triple, Sammy Siani was 2-5/Double/Run/RBI, Shawn Ross goes 1-5/HR/3 RBI, Ernny Ordonez goes 1-2/HR/3 BB’s/RBI, Jase Bowen 1-4/BB/Run/RBI, Francisco Acuna was 1-3/Double/2 BB’s/Run, Maikol Escotto was 0-4/2 Runs, Tres Gonzalez 1-4/BB, Luke Brown 1-5/Double…
Solid effort from the Hoppers’ winning pitcher, Yunior Thibo, who earned his third win of the season, coming out of the bullpen and working two innings, allowing 0 Runs, on 0 Hits, with 0 BB’s, and 0 K’s…You can not get any cleaner than that…Mr. Clean, Yunior Thibo, on Friday night at Frawley Stadium, in Wilmington, Delaware…The Greensboro starter, J.P. Massey goes four innings, giving up 1 Run, on 1 Hit, with 3 BB’s/3 K’s…Tonight’s bullpen closer, Dante Mendoza works 1 2/3’s innings, giving up 0 Runs, on 0 Hits, with 0 BB’s and 2 K’s…..
**********The Greensboro Grasshoppers with a big five-run 4th inning, to blow the lid off of this game, and with all that, they were able to take over total control of this contest…**********
(The big blow of the five-run fourth inning, was the Three-Run home run, by the Greensboro Grasshoppers, Shawn Ross.)
Game Details:
Attendance-4,259
Time of Game-2:38
Game Time Temp-83 degrees, at 6:3pm
Next Up:
Greensboro Grasshoppers(42-41) at the Wilmington BlueRocks(36-50) on Saturday night, at 6:35pm at Frawley Stadium, in Wilmington, Delaware…..
from the Wilmington BlueRocks website:
Blue Rocks Struggles Continue Against Grasshoppers
By Michael Doctoerovitz
The Wilmington Blue Rocks (36-50) dropped game four of their six game series to the Greensboro Grasshoppers (43-42) 7-2 on Friday night.
After getting himself out of some trouble in the first, Andry Lara found himself in more trouble in the second. After surrendering a leadoff solo home run to Ernny Ordonez, Lara would give up a double to Francisco Acuna.
After getting two quick outs, Lara would be removed from the game due to injury and replaced by southpaw Dannel Diaz, who would get out of the inning without allowing another run.
In the top of the fourth, the Grasshoppers would jump all over Diaz.
After back to back walks, Diaz was able to record two quick outs. With two outs and runners on first and second, Diaz gave up an RBI single to Sammy Siani. Another RBI single would score one more and a first pitch, three-run home run to center field off the bat of Shawn Ross would make it 6-0 Grasshoppers.
In the bottom of the fifth, the Rocks would show patience at the plate. Three straight walks to start the inning from Will Frizzell, Jeremy De La Rosa and Murphy Stehly, would load the bases for Nick Shumpert with nobody out. Shumpert would see one pitch and ground into a double play but Frizzell would score to make it 6-1.
After replacing Israel Pineda behind the plate in the top of the sixth, catcher Caleb Farmer would lead off the bottom of the seventh with a solo homerun to make it 6-2.
The Grasshoppers would add one more in the eighth to make 7-2 but the Rocks would not go down without a fight.
In the eighth, the Rocks loaded the bases with one away but were only able to muster up one run on a sacrifice fly from Farmer to make it 7-3.
Both teams would go down quietly in the ninth to end the game. They will be back in action tomorrow night at 6:35 p.m.