Greensboro Grasshoppers Saturday Night Baseball Report…
brought to us by Mike Causey for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner…..
from Saturday night, at Truist Stadium, in Winston-Salem, N.C.:
Winston-Salem Dash 6, Greensboro Grasshoppers 3
WP:Billy Seidl(1-0)
LP:Ryan Harbin(0-1)
SV:Bryce Collins(2)
Dash' Line- 6-11-1 Hoppers' Line-3- 4-4
Greensboro Grasshoppers(35-26)
Winston-Salem Dash(29-33)
The Hoppers four-game winning streak vs. the WS Dash was snapped on Saturday night, but with the Jersey Shore BlueClaws splitting their Doubleheader with the Wilmington Blue Rocks, and Jersey Shore at (35-27), the Greensboro Grasshoppers still have a 1/2(Half-Game) lead over Jersey Shore, in the South Atlantic League’s Northern Division, with four(4) First Half games remaining…Hoppers in First Place, and trying to perserve and persevere and win that First Half Pennant….
Hoppers with 3 runs, on 4 hits, but with 4 errors at Winston-Salem on Saturday night…No Hopper homers on Saturday night, but the Grasshoppers got a Triple from Mitch Jebb…The Hoppers with just those four hits, and Jebb goes 1-3/Triple/Run…Termarr Johnson was 1-3/Run…Nick Cimillo went 1-3/BB/Run/RBI…P.J. Hilson was 1-4…Geovanny Planchart 0-3/RBI…Charles McAdoo went 0-2/2 BBs, an McAdoo is still batting .341…..
The Hoppers grabbed a 2-0 in the Top of the Third Inning, but that lead was gone by the Bottom of the Third Frame…In the Top of the Third, the Hoppers hopped on top….
Top 3rd
Nick Cimillo singles on a line drive to left fielder Bryce Willits. Termarr Johnson scores. Charles McAdoo to 2nd.
GBO 1,WS 0
Josiah Sightler reaches on a throwing error by second baseman Loidel Chapelli. Nick Cimillo scores. Josiah Sightler to 2nd.
GBO 2,WS 0
For the WS Dash on Saturday evening:Ryan Galanie was 2-5/HR/Run/2 RBI…Calvin Harris 2-4/2 Runs…Bryce Willits 2-5/Run…Loidel Chapelli 2-4/Run/RBI…That’s 8 hits right there for the Dash, and they had 11…Shawn Goosenberg was 1-5/Double/2 RBI…And that is the bulk of the Dash offense from Saturday for you…
The two Hopper pitchers that got beat up a bit were starter Derek Diamond who worked for 4 Innings, giving up 3 runs on 6 hits, with 1 BB/0 Ks…Closer and losing pitcher for Greensboro, Ryan Harbin, hit the hill for the last two innings of the game, allowing 3 runs, on 3 hits, with 1 BB/3 Ks, and he/Harbin gave up the two-run Home Run to Ryan Galanie…
Dash winning pitcher Billy Seidl, came in from the bullpen going 1 1/3 and giving up 0 Run/0 Hits/0 BBs/3 Ks…Seidl entered the game with two outs in the sixth inning…
To emphasize how close this game was, the score was all tied up at 3-3 going to the bottom of the seventh inning…Here is what happened to push the Dash over the top, and this made sure the ended up on top…
Bottom 7th
Ryan Galanie homers on a fly ball to left center field. Bryce Willits scores.
GBO 3,WS 5
Jordan Sprinkle reaches on a fielding error by pitcher Ryan Harbin. Calvin Harris scores. Eddie Park to 3rd. Samuel Zavala to 2nd.
GBO 3,WS 6
On those four errors by the Grashoppers in the game, and one of those came in that fateful bottom of the seventh inning, the Hoppers had two fielding errors and two throwing errors….
Game Particulars:
Attendance-8,024
Time of Game-2:34
Game Time Temp-87 Degrees
Next Up:
Greensboro Grasshoppers(35-26) at the Winston-Salem Dash(29-33) on Sunday afternoon at 2pm, at Truist Stadium, in Winston-Salem, N.C.