Final from Saturday Night, at Truist Stadium, in Winston-Salem, N.C.:
Fred Anderson of Raleigh Game Report…..
Greensboro Grasshoppers 9, Winston-Salem Dash 7
WP:Kyle Larsen(2-0)/LP:Grant Umberger(3-3)/SV:Jacob Bimbi(1)
Hoppers' Line-9-12-0 WS Dash' Line-7- 7-3
Greensboro Grasshoppers improve to (15-11) with the win, and the WS Dash fall to (16-10) with the loss…If Greensboro wins the Sunday game, both teams will end up the Series with identical (16-11) records…Greensboro now leads this Best-of-Six Games Series, Three-Games-to-Two…Can lock it all down and take the series with a win on Sunday afternoon…
Hoppers with 9 runs, on 12 hits for the night, and the Grasshoppers walked just three times, and they Struck Out 14 times in the contest…On the other hand, the Dash produced 7 runs, on 7 hits, while they earned 10 Walks, and the Dash struck out 15 times, in this ballgame…
Greensboro got big nights at the plate from Jhonny Severino and Easton Carmichael…Severino went 2-5, with a Grand Slam Home Run…Severino scored once, and drove in the Four Runs, with his Slam…Carmichael was going 3-5, and he had a Triple, plus a Double, he scored once, and Carmichael drove in Three Runs/3 RBI…The Hoppers’ Matt King went 2-4/2 Runs, while Axiel Plaz was 2-5/Double/RBI…Wyatt Sanford goes 1-4/BB/Run…Ivan Brethowr was 1-3/BB/Run…Bryan Sanchez went 1-5…Plenty of Hoppers’ heavy hitters on this Saturday night, in Winston-Salem…
It was a game of spurts, with the Greensboro Grasshoppers scoring 7 runs, in the Top of the First Inning, and that is the inning, where Jhonny Severino crushed his Grand Slam Home Run…Some kind of start for the Hoppers, and then the WS Dash showed their spurtability, with Five Runs of their own, in the Bottom of the Seventh Inning…After 7 innings, the score was just 8-7, with the Hoppers over the Dash, and the Hoppers go on to win this thing, 9-7…
Here is how that busy Top of the First Inning, went scoring-wise for the Grasshoppers…
Easton Carmichael triples on a fly ball to center fielder Ely Brown. Wyatt Sanford scores. Matt King scores.
GBO 2,WS 0
Shalin Polanco reaches on a fielding error by second baseman Kyle Lodise. Easton Carmichael scores. Ivan Brethowr to 3rd. Tony Blanco Jr. to 2nd.
GBO 3,WS 0
Jhonny Severino hits a grand slam to left center field. Ivan Brethowr scores. Tony Blanco Jr. scores. Shalin Polanco scores.
GBO 7,WS 0
Pretty wild that the Hoppers got both the Grand Slam HR(Severino) and Triple(Carmichael) in that Top of the First, and also, the Dash committed One of their Three Game Errors, and that First Inning Dash fielding error, led to a Hoppers run…
Sort of like a Pitching Marathon in this game, with the two teams combining to use Ten(10) total pitchers, with 6 arms going/throwing for Greensboro, and 4 men going to the mound for the WS Dash…Greensboro’s Kyle Larsen with the Win, working 2 2/3s Innings, allowing 0 Runs, on 1 Hit, with 2 BBs/4 Ks…Larsen led the Hoppers on the Hill in Ks, and as a staff, the Hoppers struck out 15 Dash batters for the night…GSO’s Jose Garces walked two Dash, and struck out 3, and Garces got a Hold, while Jacob Bimbi was credited with the Save, by going 2/3s of an Inning, and Bimbi goes all No-No…No Runs, No Hits, No Walks, and No Strikeouts, as Bimbi just came on, and got things All Closed Out….
(Good Day for the Kyle Larsens of the Sports World, as the Hoppers Kyle Larsen gets the Win, while the NASCAR driver, Kyle Larsen, was also a Winner on Saturday in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Race.)
Anthony DePino led the Dash in hitting on Saturday, as he went 2-4/HR/2 Runs, while Boston Smith was 2-4/BB/Run/RBI…Solid Dash pitching from late-worker Morris Austin, who gave up 1 Run, on 2 Hits, with 0 BBs/6 Strikeouts…Austin worked the last three innings for the Dash…
Game Details:
Attendance-2,641
Time of Game-3:12
Game Time Temp-61 Degrees and Partly Cloudy…
Up Next:Greensboro Grasshoppers(15-11) at the WS Dash(16-10) on Sunday afternoon…First Pitch at 2pm, at Truist Stadium, in Winston-Salem, N.C.