Final Score from Aberdeen, Maryland, on a Hot Night for the Greensboro Grasshoppers pitching staff, with a combined Perfect Game from Khristian Curtis, Jake Skirk, and Mike Walsh…No walks and 16 Ks from the Hoppers hurlers, and NO Birds reached base in this El Perfecto Contest….
PERFECT GAME
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
GSO Hoppers 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 5 0
Aberdeen Ironbirds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
MORE to come/follow…..
Final Score:Greensboro Grasshoppers 2, Aberdeen Ironbirds 0
WP:Khristian Curtis(3-4)/LP:Cohen Achen(2-6)/SV:Mike Walsh(4)
Hoppers' Line-2-5-0 Birds' Line- 0-0-1
Greensboro Grasshoppers(55-23/10-3)
Aberdeen Ironbirds(29-49/5-8)
Greensboro Grasshoppers’ starting pitcher Khristian Curtis(85 pitches) goes 6 strong innings, and he allowed 0 Runs, on NO Hits, with 10 Ks, and O BBs…Up next was middle reliever Jake Shirk(26 pitches), and Shirk went to work for Two Innings, giving up 0 Runs, on NO Hits, with 4 Ks and 0 BBs…Closer Mike Walsh(9 pitches) finished up the most valuable haul by the local pitching staff in recent years, with Mike able to strike out Two Bird Batters, with 0 Runs/NO Hits, and 0 BBs over the final frame of the game…The Hoppers close it out, the got it done, and you look up and they WON on the Fourth of July in 2025, with a PERFECT GAME…
Two runs on five hits for the Greensboro Grasshoppers offense, with the Hoppers only going down six times, by way of the K/strikeout….Hopper hitters go like this:Newcomer Titus Dumitru going 2-4/HR/RBI…Konnor Griffin 1-4/Run…Keiner Delgago 1-4…Will Taylor 1-3/RBI…Enmanuel Terrero 0-4/SB
The Greensboro Grasshoppers scoring went like this…
Top 5th
Titus Dumitru homers on a fly ball to left field.
GBO 1,ABD 0
Top 6th
Will Taylor out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Austin Overn. Konnor Griffin scores.
GBO 2,ABD 0
Game Attendance-4,627 at Cal Ripken Stadium
Game Time Temp-82 degrees
Game Time of Game-2:12
**********This might have been one of the closer plays of the game, with Aberdeen trying to reach first base….***********
Bottom of the 7th Inning……
Aberdeen’s Austin Overn strikes out swinging, catcher Derek Berg has to go to first baseman Geovanny Planchart, to complete the Strikeout…1 out
++++++++++Greensboro Grasshoppers with the REMAX Revolution Player of the Game honors are:Pitchers, Khristian Curtis, Jake Shirk, and Mike Walsh…Kudos to that “K” Crew(16 Ks)….++++++++++
$$$$$$$$$$ This guy was MONEY too on Friday night, and that would be the Greensboro Grasshoppers’ catcher, and yes the man that caught that Perfect Game….Let’s send a Shoutout out to Hoppers’ catcher Derek Berg, recently called up from the Bradenton Marauders, and that BIG Shoutout going to Derek Berg for the job he did calling the game and receiving the pitches during the game, from Khristian Curtis, Jake Shirk, and Mike Walsh…He is wearing the old #50 that Omar Alfonzo was wearing before he took off on “The Nooner to Altoona”…Berg getting it done too, on Friday night at Aberdeen…..$$$$$$$$$$
Up Next:Greensboro Grasshoppers at the Aberdeen Ironbirds again, on Saturday night, at 7:05pm…
Last time and most recent time we saw Near-Perfect Baseball from the Greensboro Grasshoppers, and this game was at First National Bank Field, and it was the last home game of the season, on a Sunday night, back in 2022…
September 5, 2022
GREENSBORO Justin Meis pitched seven perfect innings and combined with Santiago Florez on a one-hit shutout in the Grasshoppers’ final home game of the season, and Greensboro won the “Battle of I-40” rivalry series with a 6-0 victory over the Winston-Salem Dash at First National Bank Field on Sunday night.
Meis (4-4) was simply brilliant, retiring all 21 batters he faced and striking out seven. He was lifted after the seventh inning with the perfect game still intact, throwing just 74 pitches.
from Jeff Mills, with GSOHoppers.com….