GRASSHOPPERS SPLIT IT’S TWO GAMES WITH THE HOT RODS FRIDAY EVENING
from Callie Cline, Director of Media for the Greensboro Grasshoppers and coming in from www.gsohoppers.com…
GREEENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro Grasshoppers split its two games with the Bowling Green Hot Rods on Friday, May 30. The Hot Rods took game one 2-1 as the Grasshoppers took game two 4-1. Greensboro moved to 33-15 on the season while Bowling Green moved to 26-22.
GAME ONE RESUMPTION (Hot Rods: 2 – Grasshoppers: 1)
The Grasshoppers dropped the resumption of last nights suspended game, 2-1 on Friday, May 30 against the Hot Rods as Bowling Green outhit Greensboro 5-3.
Outfielder Esmerlyn Valdez led the Grasshoppers offense as he went 2-3 with a home run, one RBI, and one run scored. Infielder Kalae Harrison tallied the only other hit for a double for the Grasshoppers.
Leading at the plate for the Hot Rods was outfielder Noah Myers as he went 1-3. Hits for Bowling Green were also tallied by Adrian Santana, Aidan Smith, Daniel Vellojin, and Raudelis Martinez.
Starting on the mound for Greensboro was righthanded pitcher Antwone Kelly as he tallied four strikeouts and gave up four hits, one earned run, and two free bases. Landon Tomkins took the loss for the Grasshoppers and fell to 1-1 on the season.
Starting on the mound for Bowling Green was righthanded pitcher, Marcus Johnson as he tallied three strikeouts and gave up two hits and one earned run on five innings of work. Drew Dowd recorded the win for the Hot RodAAs and improved to 3-2 on the season while Adam Boucher tallied his first save.
Just looking back through and studying back through the baseball games on Friday night, at First National Bank Field…And when you look at Game One, you see where Bowling Green scored two runs, just enough to win the contest, and for the BG Hot Rods, it was Ryan Cermak scoring both of their runs, and he was driven in each time by Jhon Diaz…Diaz and Cermak accounted of all of the BG Hot Rods scoring in the Rods’ Game One victory….
GAME TWO (Grasshoppers: 4 – Hot Rods: 1)
The Grasshoppers defeated the Hot Rods 4-1, in game two on Friday, May 30. Greensboro outhit Bowling Green 7-3 as the Grasshoppers had one mishap.
Outfielder Shalin Polanco led the Grasshoppers offense as he went 2-3 with a home run, two RBI, and one run scored. Outfielder Esmerlyn Valdez followed close behind as he went 2-4. Hits for Greensboro were also recorded by Omar Alfonzo and Kalae Harrison.
Leading at the plate for the Hot Rods was outfielder Noah Myers as he went 1-3 with one run scored. Hits for Bowling Green were also tallied by Adrian Santana and Ryan Cermak.
Starting on the mound for Greensboro was righthanded pitcher Khristian Curtis as he tallied eight strikeouts and gave up one hit, one earned run, and three free bases on 4.1 innings of work. Lefthanded pitcher Hunter Furtado recorded the win for the Grasshoppers and improved to 3-0 on the season. Jaycob Deese tallied his second hold of the season while Ryan Harbin recorded his third save.
Starting on the mound for Bowling Green was righthanded pitcher Garrett Edwards as he tallied four strikeouts and gave up three hits, two earned runs, and four free bases on four innings of work. Edwards took the loss for the Hot Rods and fell to 4-2 on the season.
Just looking back through and studying back through the baseball games on Friday night, at First National Bank Field…Got to give it up for Khristian Curtis, as he pitched very well over his 4 1/3 Innings, with the BG Hot Rods not getting their first base hit until the fourth inning…A Double to right field, from the aforementioned Ryan Cermak, got the Hot Rods into the hits column and it broke up the No-Hit bid from the GSO Hoppers, Khristian Curtis…
During his time on Friday in Game Two, Curtis walked three BG Hot Rods, and he came up with 8 very big Strikeouts, to go along with his one run allowed on just one hit, for Bowling Green…Just a heck of an outing from Curtis…He is one of our REMAX Revolution Players of the Game…The other nod for POG goes on Offense to Shalin Polanco, for his two-run Home Run in the fifth inning, and Polanco’s bomb to right field gave the Hoppers a 4-1 lead over Bowling Green and that’s how the Hoppers won it, 4-1 was the FINAL…
Oh Yeah, and Polanco also had a single and a walk in the game…Polanco with a HR, a base hit Single, a Walk, and he scored a Run, and he drove in 2 runs with his HR…Polanco and Curtis both on the Hoppers big stage on Friday night…Esmerlyn Valdez also had two hits, with a pair of singles for the Grasshoppers…Jaiver Rivas was 1-3, with a Walk/Run…Omar Alfonzo was 1-4, and Fonzie had Solo HR…Kalae Harrison went 1-4, and he came up with a Big Double during his firts at-bat….Harrison also Doubled in the first game of the day on Friday afternoon…
We have it, and the GC/RR must be for Curtis…Looking back at the Golden Corral, and the REMAX Revolution Realty team…..
The Grasshoppers continue their home series against the Bowling Green Hot Rods tomorrow, Saturday, May 31 at 6:30pm for Bluey at the Ballpark Night and Spectacular Fireworks Saturday. To purchase tickets to any Grasshoppers home game, visit gsohoppers.com or call 336-268-2255.
Game Details from Friday:
Attendance-4,722
Time of Game-2:40
Game Time Temp-68 degrees
Hoppers' Line- 4-7-1 Hot Rods' Line-1-3-0
Greensboro Grasshoppers(33-15)…Bowling Green Hot Rods(26-22)
Final Score from Game Two was:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 4, Bowling Green Hot Rods 1
WP:Hunter Furtado(3-0)/LP:Garrett Edwards(4-2)/SV:Ryan Harbin(3)
If you can’t make it out to Saturday or Sunday’s games, be sure to tune in a catch the broadcast on The LONG GONE Baseball Radio Network, on GSOHoppers.com…Not at the game, or if you are at the game and you love to listen in, be sure to tune in and follow along when You CLICK HERE…That’s LISTEN LIVE to the Greensboro Grasshoppers game, from The LONG GONE Baseball Radio Network….
South Atlantic League Games from Friday:
GBO 4, BG 1…BG 2, GBO 1…BRK 3, ABD 0…HCS 12, WS 2…ROM 4, ASH 3…GVL 6, JS 4…
WIL 4, HV 0
Today’s/Saturday’s Games in the South Atlantic League:
Winston-Salem
@
Hub City
4:35 PM ET
Wilmington
@
Hudson Valley
5:05 PM ET
Aberdeen
@
Brooklyn
6:00 PM ET
Bowling Green
@
Greensboro
6:30 PM ET
Gill Hill
(1 – 4)
vs.
Wietgrefe
(0 – 1)
Jersey Shore
@
Greenville
6:45 PM ET
Asheville
@
Rome
7:00 PM ET
South Atlantic League Standings:
Sally North…First Place:Brooklyn(34-15)…2nd Place:Greensboro(33-15) ½ Game out of First…3rd Place:Hudson Valley(30-18) 3 ½ Games Back…4TH Place:Wilmington(20-29) 14 Games Back…5th Place:Aberdeen(19-30) 15 Games Back…6th Place:Jersey Shore(17-31) 16 ½ Games Back…
SALLY South:First Place:Bowling Green(26-22)…2nd Place:Hub City(26-23) ½ Game out of First Place…3rd Place:Rome(25-24) 1 ½ Games Back…4th Place:Greenville(24-25) 2 ½ Games out of First Place…5th Place:Asheville(21-28) 5 ½ Games Back…6th Place:WS Dash(17-32) and 9 ½ Games out of First Place…
Pittsburgh Pirates System:
Single A Bradenton Marauders…Lakeland Flying Tigers(28-19) at Bradenton Marauders(22-28) at 5pm…Friday, it was Lakeland over Bradenton, 9-3…CF Will Taylor 3-5/2 Doubles/2 RBI…Batting at .324..Round Five pick out of Clemson in 2024…
Double A Altoona Curve…Portland Sea Dogs(26-19) at Altoona(22-26) Doubleheader that began at 4pm with Completion of Suspended game from Friday in the 5th Inning, where Portland, Maine led, 3-1…Game Two to follow…CF Mitch Jebb 0-2/BB/Run and batting at .302…SB #17 of the season for Jebb…SS Jack Brannigan 1-2/Triple/RBI..C Sean Ross 1-2/Double/BB…Hudson Head 1-2/Triple…DH Nick Cimillo 1-3…2b Mikol Escotto 0-1…
Triple A Indianapolis Indians…Nashville Sounds(32-22) at Indianapolis Indians(30-23) at 6:35pm…From Friday, it was Indianapolis 5, Nashville 4…SS Nick Gonzalez 3-5, with 3 singles…3b Sung Che Chang 2-4/Run/RBI…1b Abrahan Gutierrez 1-4…LF Matt Frazier 1-4/Run/RBI…Starter, but with No Decision, Bubba Chandler goes 5 Innings, with 0 Run/4 Hits/1 BB/8 Ks…
MLB Pittsburgh Pirates….Friday it was the San Diego Padres winning, 3-2, over the Pirates…No former Greensboro Grasshoppers, position players or pitchers involved…Today it is Pittsburgh(21-37) at San Diego(32-23) at 9:40pm