Greensboro Grasshoppers Sunday Afternoon Baseball Report brought to us by Mike Causey for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner: Hoppers with 6-2 win to close out Regular Season and at home in Playoffs on Thursday of this week(Justin Miknis first hit as a Hopper was a Homer)

Greensboro Grasshoppers Sunday Afternoon Baseball Report
brought to us by Mike Causey for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner……

from Sunday afternoon at First National Bank Field:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 6, Bowling Green Hot Rods 2
WP:Scott Randall(4-3)
LP:Dylan Lesko(1-3)

Hoppers' Line- 6- 7-0
Hot Rods' Line-2-12-1

Greensboro Grasshoppers(75-55)
Bowling Green Hot Rods(75-54)

Hoppers score one run in the first with Jack Brannigan scoring from third on Double Play ground ball by P.J. Hilson…

Hoppers score two runs in the third inning, on Fielder’s Choice ground ball by Duce Gourson scoring Mitch Jebb, and then Omar Alfonozo scores on a throwing error by BG first baseman Raudelis Martinez…

Hoppers add another run in the fourth inning, when Jack Brannigan Tripled, and then he was brought home by an RBI ground ball single to right field, by Omar Alfonzo…

Hoppers up 4-1 going to the bottom of the eighth inning, where they added two runs, on a Two-Run Home Run to right field from Hoppers’ new catcher, Justin Miknis…For Miknis, his Homer was his first hit as a Hopper….Miknis home run scored Miknis and Hudson Head, who was on board with a single…

It was 6-1 Hoppers going to the top of the ninth inning, and that’s where the Hot Rods added their second run of the contest, on a SAC Fly RBI from Tatem Levins, who scored Mac Horvath, who reached on a one-out Double…

Final score was 6-2, Greensboro Grasshoppers, and the Hoppers take the Six-Game Weekly Series, 5-1…BG won 5-4 in the first game back last Tuesday, then it was the Grasshoppers, 2-1, 5-4, 4-3, 1-0, and 6-1 with wins…

Great way for the Greensboro Grasshoppers to close out their SAL Regular Season, and they will be back home at FNB Field, for Game Two of the SAL Playoffs on Thursday night at 6:30pm…

Hoppers at the plate on Sunday:Jack Brannigan 2-5/Triple/2 Runs…Mitch Jebb 0-3/2 BBs/SB/Run…Jebb with his Stolen Base #43 of the season…Omar Alfonzo 1-2/BB/Run/RBI…P.J. Hilson 0-3/BB…Duce Gourson 0-3/BB…Hudson Head 1-4/Run…Lonnie White Jr. 1-3/Double/BB…Justin Miknis 1-3/HR/BB/Run/2 RBI…Javier Rivas 1-4…

Hoppers’ Winning Pitcher, Scott Randall, goes/works three innings, allowing 0 Runs, on 4 Hits, with 0 BBs/3 Ks…Greensboro starting pitcher, J.P. Massey worked three innings, giving up 1 Run, on 4 hits, with 1 BB/2 Ks…

Game Particulars:
Attendance-4,164, an Excellent Sunday afternoon crowd…
Time of Game-2:50…Almost an hour longer than the game we has the other night, that went 1:58…
Game Time Temp-71 Degrees at 2:05pm…

Next Up:
Greensboro Grasshoppers at the Hudson Valley Renegades on Tuesday night, in Game One of the SALLY League Northern Division Championship Series…