Greensboro Grasshoppers Tuesday Night Playoff Baseball Report…
brought to us by Mike Causey for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner…..
from Tuesday at Fishkill, New York:
Hudson Vally Renegades 6, Greensboro Grasshoppers 0
WP:Kelly Austin(1-0)
LP:Elijah Birdsong(0-1)
Renegades' Line-6-8-1 Hoppers' Line- 0-5-1
The Hudson Valley Renegades lead the Best-of-Three Series, 1-0, with Game Two due up in Greensboro, on Thursday night, at First National Bank Field…Game is set for 6:30pm…
One run in the sixth inning, and five more big runs in the seventh inning, and that was all she wrote on Tuesday night, with the Hudson Valley Renegades running past the Greensboro Grasshoppers…
The Renegades scored on a ground ball in the 6th inning and then the ‘Gades really blew it open in the 7th, with
Dylan Jasso’s three-run homer…For the game, the Renegades’ pitching staff struck out 17 Hopper batters, and only two Hoppers drew walks….Conversely, the Grasshoppers walked nine(9) Renegades, and they struck out eight(8)…
Hopper hitters:Mitch Jebb 1-4/Double…(Jebb with only Hopper extra-base hit of the game.) Omar Alfonzo 1-3/BB…P.J. Hilson 1-4…Lonnie White Jr. 1-3…Duce Gourson 0-2/BB…Hoppers only able to come up with 4 hits in the game, and was mentioned earlier, the Grasshoppers walked twice…
Hoppers starting pitcher Carlson Reed went 4 Innings, where he gave up 0 Runs, on 3 Hits, with 4 BB’s/5 Ks…Lots of walks issued by the Hoppers’ pitchers in this contest, and the four from Reed were high for him…LP Elijah Birdsong surrendered 2 Runs, on 1 hits, with 1 BB/0 Ks over his one inning of work…Magdiel Cotto, who followed Birdsong, gave up 4 runs, on 3 hits, with 1 BB/0 Ks…Cotto only lasted 2/3s of an inning, and he also gave up the three-run Home Run, to Dylan Jasso…Tough night for the Hopper pitchers…
Along with the HR by Jasso, the Renegades also got Three Doubles from George Lombard Jr.
Way too many walks from the Hoppers and also too many strikeouts by the Grasshopper batters…
Game Particulars:
Attendance-4,269
Time of Game-2:47
Game Time Temp-77 Degrees at 6:42pm
Next Up:
Hudson Valley Renegades(1-0) at the Greensboro Grasshoppers(0-1) on Thursday night at 6:30pm, in Game Two of the SALLY League Northern Division Championship Series, at First National Bank Field, in beautiful downtown Greensboro….
