Tuesday Night Greensboro Grasshoppers Baseball Report…
brought to us by Mike Causey for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner…..
Final Score from Tuesday night at L.P. Frans Stadium, in Hickory, N.C.:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 4, Hickory Crawdads 2
WP:Wilber Dotel(2-1)
LP:D.J. McCarty(0-2)
SV:Dominic Perachi(1)
Hoppers' Line- 4-6-1 Crawdads' Line-2-6-1
Greensboro Grasshoppers(19-14)
Hickory Crawdads(12-21)
Hoppers’ hitters:J.P. Hilson 2-4/HR/2 RBI…Hudson Head 1-3/HR/BB/2 Runs…Charles McAdoo 2-4/Double…Termarr Johnson 1-3/Double/BB/RBI…Jack Branigan 0-2/3 BBs/Run…
Greensboro Grasshoppers Scoring:
Top 2nd
P.J. Hilson singles on a sharp ground ball to right fielder Yeison Morrobel. Hudson Head scores.
GBO 1,HIC 0
Top 4th
Hudson Head homers on a fly ball to right center field.
GBO 2,HIC 0
P.J. Hilson homers on a fly ball to left center field.
GBO 3,HIC 0
Top 9th
Termarr Johnson doubles on a line drive to right fielder Yeison Morrobel. Jack Brannigan scores.
GBO 4,HIC 2
Top Hickory hitter:Quincy Scott 1-4/Double/Run…That double from Hickory’s Scott was wrapped around five Crawdad singles, including Konner Piotto going 1-4/2 RBI…
Five solid innings of work from Hoppers’ starter Wilber Dotel, and he gave up 2 runs, on five hits, with 3 BBs and 5 Ks…Dotel picked up the victory…
Reliever Dominic Perachi, just back from Double A Altoona was like a rock, he went the rest of the way after Dotel, throwing four innings, with 0 runs, on just one hit, with Perachi walking one Crawdad, and Perachi struck out Nine(9) big ‘Dad batters…
Perachi gets one of those Player of the Game nods, with his back end of the bullpen work being exceptional, and those nine Ks, priceless…Hoppers staff with 14 strikeouts and just 4 walks on the night…
Hickory starter, D.J. McCarty struck out 7 Hoppers over his four inning of work, but he gave up 3 runs, on 4 hits, with 4 BBs, and served up two Hopper homers…15 Ks and 6 BBs from the ‘Dads pitching staff Tuesday night….
The Greensboro Grasshoppers had a steady 3-0 lead after 3 1/2 innings, but Hickory got on the board in the bottom of the fourth, and made this a 3-2 ballgame…The Hoppers added an insurance run in the top of the ninth, and held off Hickory, to win the game, 4-2 on Tuesday….
Game Particulars:
Attendance-997
Time of Game/TOG-2:32
Game Time Temp-67 Degrees
Up Next:Greensboro Grasshoppers(19-14) at the Hickory Crawdads(12-21) on Wednesday at L.P. Frans Stadium, with game time set for 11am…..