Greensboro Grasshoppers Sunday Afternoon Baseball Report…
brought to us by Mike Causey for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner…..
Final from Sunday afternoon at First National Bank Field:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 5, Asheville Tourists 4
WP:Valentin Linares(3-0)
LP:Railin Perez(3-2)
Hoppers' Line -5-8-1 Tourists' Line-4-7-2
Greensboro Grasshoppers(67-51/27-25)
Asheville Tourists(48-70/20-33)
The Greensboro Grasshoppers were ahead 1-0 at the end of the first inning…By the end of the second frame, the Asheville Tourists had tied this game up, at 1-1…Asheville moves in front 2-1 in the top of the fourth inning, taking a 2-1 advantage on their solo HR from Narbe Cruz…The Hoppers came right back and tied the game at 2-2, with a solo home run of their own on a LONG GONE homer that went LONG and hooked to right, but it was out of sight, off of the bat of Omar Alfonzo…
We have a fight on our hands here, but you have to hand the wheel to the Asheville Tourists, after they posted a run in the top of sixth inning, and then A’ville added another run in the eighth, and now Asheville leads Greensbro, 4-2…
The Hoppers led 1-0 early, but now they trail 4-2 late…But wait, it is time to get this game, straight, let’s open the crate, and watch the Greensboro Grasshoppers do something great…And here’s what they did…
In the bottom of eight, with Mitch Jebb at the plate, the Hoppers get a much-needed Mitch Jebb one-out single…Omar Alfonzo reaches on an error, then Hudson Head brings home Jebb, with an RBI single to right field…Score now reads A’ville 4, G’boro 3…After a walk to Geovanny Planchart loads the bases, P.J. Hilson becomes the Sunday Afternoon hero, when Hilson drives a ball into the left field lower corner for a Two-Run Double…Two RBI for Hilson, scoring Alfonzo and Head, and now the Greensboro Grasshoppes are ahead to stay, with the Hoppers in front 5-4, and that would end up being your final score…
Hoppers take the Sunday matinee 5-4, and Greensboro takes the Six-Game Series from the Asheville Tourists, Four-Games-to-Two…The chant rings out, in and around First National Bank Field, “Hoppers Win, Hoppers Win, Hoppers Win, Hoppers Win Again”…..
At the plate for the home team on Sunday afternoon:Lonnie White Jr. 0-4/BB/Run/SB…Termarr Johnson 2-4/SB…Shawn Ross 0-3/BB…Mitch Jebb 2-4/Run/RBI…Omar Alfonzo 1-4/HR/2 Runs/RBI…Hudson Head 1-4/RBI…Geovanny Planchart 0-2/2 BBs…P.J. Hilson 1-3/Double/BB/2 RBI…Kalae Harrison 1-3/Double/BB…Our Offensive Hopper of the Game was P.J. Hilson, who came up with that Game-Winning two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning…And the next thing you know, Greensboro was winning…
The Grasshoppers pitching staff struck out 16 Asheville batters, and only surrendered one Walk..Solid job by the Hoppers’ hurlers on Sunday, with GSO starter Derek Diamond having 5 Ks in his 3 innings, then Ryan Harbin and Magdiel Cotto strike out 3 Tourists each, while the game’s Winning Pitcher Valentin Linares strikes out 5 big Tourists in his two innings of work, out there on the bump…We had Linares as our Defensive Player of the Game, and due in part to the fact that he struck out the A’ville side to end the game, 1-2-3, in the Top of the Ninth inning….Linares got Morton, Carrillo, and Ryan Johnson to close out the contest…Solid work turned by Linares on Sunday afternoon…
The top Asheville hitters on the day were Kenni Gomez and Luis Encarnacion, who both went 2-4…Gomez 2-4/Double/2 Runs…Encarnacion 2-4/2 RBI…Oliver Carrillo went 1-4 for the Tourists, but he hit a solo home run, to give his boys a boost…Narbe Cruz also smacked a solo home run for A’ville…
Game Particulars:
Attendance-2,777
Time of Game/TOG-2:31
Game Time Temp-83 Degrees at 2:02pm
Up Next:
Greensboro Grasshoppers OFF on Monday, and then they will head out Tuesday for a Six-Game Series with the Rome Emperors…Hoppers at the Emperors on Tuesday August 27 thru Sunday September 1…..
