Greensboro Grasshoppers Wednesday Night Baseball Report…
brought to us by Mike Causey for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner…..
Final from Wednesday night at Truist Stadium, in Winston-Salem, N.C.:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 7, WS Dash 1
WP:Luis Peralta(3-0)
LP:Tanner McDougal(0-5)
Hoppers' Line-7-8-0 Dash' Line- 1-4-1
Greensboro Grasshoppers(33-25)
Winston-Salem Dash(28-31)
Hoppers win again at Winston-Salem, taking down the Dash for the second game in a-row, by a 7-1 score…Three BIG home runs for the Grasshoppers’ catcher Shawn Ross, who now has 11 HRs on the 2024 season…Ross showing his power, now with 23 RBI, to go along with his 11 long balls…The Hoppers Charles McAdoo went 2-4 at the plate with a Triple, and MAC is now batting .340 for 2024…Two very bright spots in that Greensboro Grasshoppers lineup on Wednesday night, and there were others too…
Really got to say that Ross and McAdoo were the Wednesday night standouts, and now the Greensboro Grasshoppers are back standing in First Place again in the South Atlantic League’s Northern Division…The Hoppers(33-25) are a 1/2(Half-Game) ahead of the Jersey Shore BlueClaws(33-26) with 7 games left to play in the SALLY for the first half…
By the end of the third inning, the Greensboro Grasshoppers led this Wednesday night matchup, 6-1…
Here is how the Grasshoppers were rolling in those first three innings at the plate:
Top 1st
Charles McAdoo steals 2nd base. Termarr Johnson scores. Throwing error by catcher Calvin Harris.
GBO 1,WS 0
Top 2nd
Shawn Ross homers on a fly ball to left center field.
GBO 2,WS 0
Charles McAdoo triples on a line drive to center fielder Eddie Park. Luke Brown scores. Termarr Johnson scores.
GBO 4,WS 0
Top 3rd
Shawn Ross homers on a line drive to left field. Nick Cimillo scores.
GBO 6,WS 0
And here’s Shawn Ross again for the Hoppers, with his 11th Home Run of the season, in the 5th inning:
Top 5th
Shawn Ross homers (11) on a fly ball to left field.
GBO 7,WS 1
********Put a cork in this one, this game was over in the top of the fifth inning…With that 7-1 final score….***********
We talked about what Shawn Ross and Charles McAdoo did at the plate in the Hoppers victory over Winston-Salem, and let’s look at the other Hopper hitters and let’s give McAdoo one more prop, as he added a Stolen Base to his workload efforts on Wednesday night…
More Hoppers:Termarr Johnson 1-4/2 Runs/SB…Mitch Jebb 1-5…Nick Cimillo 0-4/BB/Run…Michael Escotto 1-4…Luke Brown 0-2/2 BBs/Run/SB…P.J. Hilson 0-3/BB…
Hoppers on the Hill:Starter Patrick Reilly worked 4 1/3 innings and gave up 1 run, on 3 hits, with 4 BBs and 3 Ks…Reilly left the game in the fifth inning, after throwing 87 pitches, with 47 going for strikes…Reliever Luis Peralta came in from the pen to get the win for the Grasshoppers, his third of the season, against no losses, and Peralta went 2 2/3s innings allowing 0 runs, on 1 hit, with 2 BBs/1 K…To close things out, Yoldin De La Paz handled the final two innings of the contest, giving up 0 runs, on 0 hits, with 2 BBs/2 Ks…Solid outing overall for the Hoppers’ pitching staff and the only quirk we see is that they walked 8 Dash batters as opposed to the 6 strikeouts…
Four different Dash batters had one hit each, and Samuel Zavala went 1-2/Double/3 BBs, and he scored the only run of the night for the WS Dash…Bryce Willits went 1-3/BB, and he drove in the only run of the game for the Dash…
The Dash starting pithcer Tanner McDougal took the loss for WS, going 3 innings, and giving up 6 runs on 4 hits, with 5 BBs and 1 K, plus he gave up two of the Shawn Ross HRs…Position player, Taishi Nakawake, came on to pitch the top of the ninth inning for the WS Dash…
Game Particulars:
Attendance-3,106
Time of Game/TOG-2:34
Game Time Temp-82 Degrees
Up Next:
Greensboro Grasshoppers(33-25) at the WS Dash(28-31) on Thursday night at 7pm, at Truist Field, in Winston-Salem, N.C.