Final from Saturday night at First National Bank Field:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 13, Asheville Tourists 2
WP:Garrett McMillan(1-0)/LP:Alain Pena(0-1)
Hoppers(2-0)/Tourists(0-2)
Grasshoppers-13-12-0 Tourists- 2- 5-0
Hoppers with three Home Runs in this game, and it was Long Gone for Omar Alfonso, Maikol Escotto, and Javier Rivas…Outstanding starting pitching from Greensboro’s Garrett McMillan, as McMillan worked five innings, allowing one run, on just two hits, with 0 BBs/8 Ks…McMillan with our REMAX Revolution Player of the Game honors, while Rivas, Alfonso, and Escotto claim the REMAX Revolution plays of the game…Rivas and Escotto combined for the half of the Hoppers hits, with Rivas going 3-5/HR/Double/3 Runs/2 RBI…Escotto was 3-4/HR/Double/3 Runs/2 RBI…Rivas and Escotto were a powerhouse for the Hoppers’ offense on Saturday night…Esmerlyn Valdez went 2-4/BB/2 Runs..Shalin Polanco was 2-4/Run/2 RBI…Valdez, Polanco, Rivas, and Escotto, provided 10 of the Grasshoppers 12 hits from Saturday night…
Joseph Sullivan was the The Show for the Asheville Tourists on Saturday evening, as we saw Sullivan going 2-3/2 HRs/2 RBI…Chase Jaworsky was 2-3 for Asheville, but that was about the hits that Asheville could come up with….
Asheville starting pitcher Alain Pena lasted for a while but he got roughed up bad in the grand scheme of things, going four innings, and allowing 10 runs, on 7 hits, with 4 BB/1 K, and he gave up all three Greensboro Grasshoppers home runs…
The three Hopper homers and the outstanding starting pitching from Garrett McMillan were the items making a huge difference in the outcome of this Saturday night baseball game…
Run-scoring Greensboro Grashoppers with 3 runs in the First Inning, 4 runs in the second inning, and then 1 run in the third inning, nothing in the fourth, then we go to the fifth inning, with 5 Hopper runs rolling on through….
Solid and steady beginning and the Hoppers kept their foot on the gas pedal, and the Hoppers never looked back, the Hoppers just kept on letting it rip and the end result was a large margin of victory…And the final scores, 12-3 Hoppers back on Friday, and then the 13-2 Hoppers win at home tonight…
Saturday Night Details:
Attendance-5,136
Time of Game-2:39
Game Time Temp-86 degrees
Coming up on Suday afternoon at 2pm, it will be the Asheville Tourists(0-2) at the Greensboro Grasshoppers(2-0), for the Get-Away Sunday Matinee…
Be sure to listen to Sunday’s Game on GSOHoppers.com, when you CLICK HERE, and there might another LONG GONE home run sighting, you never know…Heard it Three Times, on Saturday Night….That sucka’s LONG GONE…