Final Score from Sunday afternoon at First National Bank Field:
Greensboro Grasshoppers 14, Greenville Drive 11
(This is our Fred Anderson Toyota of Raleigh Greensboro Grasshoppers Game Report from Sunday.)
WP:Yulian Quintana(2-0)/LP:Luis Cohen(0-4)/SV:Jacob Bimbi(2)
Hoppers' Line-14-15-1 Drive' Line- 11-12-0
Greensboro Grasshoppers see their record jump up to (21-12), and the Greenville Drive fall to (14-19)…Hoppers take the Six Game home series vs. the Drive, 5-1…Hoppers now at (8-1) vs. Greenville this season…
Sunday was a true good ole fashioned South Atlantic League Sunday Slugfest…Greensboro Grasshoppers with Six Home Runs, and the Greenville Drive, with Four Home Runs…Hoppers win the Home Run Derby, 6-4, and win the ballgame, 14-11…The biggest plus of all coming out of Sunday’s game, was the WIN…And Winning the Series in dominant fashion is very BIG too…
Here is a rundown of the Greensboro Grasshoppers Home Runs from Sunday’s win over Greenville…
Bottom 1st
Yordany De Los Santos homers on a fly ball to right field. Wyatt Sanford scores.
Edward Florentino homers on a fly ball to right center field.
Bottom 4th
Tony Blanco Jr. homers on a fly ball to center field.
Easton Carmichael homers on a fly ball to left field.
Bottom 8th
Brian Sanchez homers on a fly ball to right center field. Jared Jones scores.
Camden Janik homers on a fly ball to left field.
Hoppers, two HRs, in the First, two in the Fourth, and two more in the Eighth Inning…Hoppers Homers came in clumps/bunches…Hoppers led 14-6 after the Sanchez and Janik HRs in the 8th…
Greenville Drive HRs from Sunday’s game…
Top 2nd
Jack Winnay homers on a fly ball to center field.
Top 5th
Yophery Rodriguez homers on a fly ball to right center field.
Top 9th
Isaiah Jackson homers on a fly ball to right center field. Yoeilin Cespedes scores.
Freili Encarnacion homers on a line drive to left center field. Mason White scores.
The Greensboro Grasshoppers had several sizeable leads in this game, back on Sunday, leading 5-0 after the First Inning, then going up 6-1, then 8-1, before they took their 10-1 lead…The Drive cut the lead to 10-6, before the Hoppers hopped back on top, 14-6…Then after the Drive got that 5-Run Top of the Ninth Inning, you had your final of Hoppers 14, Drive 11…
On Sunday you had both teams going for the Combined 10 Home Runs, plus they put up 25 Runs, off of 27 Hits…And the scoring for the Six-Game Series over the past week, was brutal…The Greensboro Grasshoppers out-scored the Greenville Drive for the week, 61-41…Happy to be on that 61 side of the runs scored…This past week was one for the books, or maybe one for the Brooks, as in Steven Brooks, the Drive pitcher…
We had a nice slice of Strawberry Shortcake make a showing at our broadcast table on Sunday…Bryant Roche, from the Greensboro News and Record, and from Greensboro.com joined us for the game broadcast on Sunday, and we got to talking Mother’s Days from the past, and how good a nice slice of Strawberry Shortcake was, on the those special Mother’s Days from the past…And guess what, we got a slice of the Shortcake up at the Broadcast Table, and it hit the spot…The cake slice was sent our way from Eric Dietz and Dylan, from down at the Hoppers’ Ticket Office…Good stuff, and Maggie Bassie was nice enough to bring the Strawberry Shortcake our way, and thanks to Maggie, Eric, and Dylan…Today/Sunday was Eric Dietz’ birthday, and Happy Birthday to him again, on this Super Mother’s Day of 2026…
They say you can have your cake, and eat it too, and that’s what we had on Sunday afternoon…We had the Cake/Strawberry Shortcake, and we ate it, and we got the Hoppers Win too…Always a great day in the Hoppers’ Neighborhood, when you can say, “Hoppers Win, Hoppers Win, Hoppers Win Again”…..
Heavy Hoppers Hitters on Sunday, and we start up at the Top of the Batting Order:Wyatt Sanford 2-4/Double/BB/Run/RBI…Yordany De Los Santos 2-4/HR/BB/2 Runs/3 RBI/2 SB…Edward Florentino 2-5/HR/Run/RBI/SB…Tony Blanco Jr. 2-5/HR/2 Runs/RBI…Easton Carmichael 1-4/HR/BB/2 Runs/RBI/SB…Jared Jones 2-5/Double/Run/RBI…Brian Sanchez 1-4/HR/BB/3 Runs/2 RBI/SB…Matt King 1-4/Run/2 RBI…Camden Janik 2-3/HR/BB/Rn/RBI…And that is a large load of Hoppers offense right there…
Hoppers starting pitcher, Connor Oliver pitched well, but they only had him going Three Innings on Sunday, where Oliver gave up 1 Run, on 5 Hits, with 1 BB/4 Ks, and Oliver gave up his first Home Run of the season…The Greensboro winning pitcher, Yulian Quintana worked 2 Innings, and he gave up 2 Runs, on 1 Hit, with 1 BB/0 Ks, and Quintana gave up 1 Drive HR…The Hoppers’ Hung-Leng Chang, and Jose Garces both got hit around pretty hard, before Jacob Bimbi enters, and gets the Save, with Bimbi going/throwing for an Third-of-and-Inning…
Lots of Runs, Hits, Home Runs, and At-Bats…The Greensboro Grasshoppers with 38 at-Bats over 8 Innings, and the Greenville Drive with 36 at-Bats over their 9 trips to the plate…
Sunday was a Winning-Sunday, and that will be the best memory of this day, along with that nice slice of Strawberry Shortcake…And now let’s bring on the Game Details from Sunday, and thanks to Don Tilley for keeping us up-to-date on all the Game Changes, during this recent homestand, at First National Bank Field…
Game Details:
Attendance-2,879
Time of Game-3:01
Game Time Temp-81 Degrees and Sunny
And lest we forget, let’s bring on our REMAX Revolution Player of the Game now…And our REMAX Revolution POG from Sunday was Yordany De Los Santos…On Sunday, De Los Santos goes 2-4/HR/BB/2 Runs/3 RBI/2 SB…And he will be, the POG, from FNB, on Sunday…
Up Next:The Greensboro Grasshoppers(21-12) head to Lakewood, New Jersey, to start a Six-Game Series, with the Jersey Shore BlueClaws(15-17), beginning on Tuesday, at 6:05pm…
from Callie Cline, at GSOHoppers.com, with Game Report on the Hoppers-Greenville Drive, on Sunday afternoon, at FNB Field…
Greensboro Claims Series Win with 14-11 Victory Over Greenville
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro Grasshoppers defeated the Greenville Drive 14-11 on Sunday, May 10, to secure the series victory. With the win, Greensboro improved to 21-12 on the season while Greenville fell to 14-19. The Grasshoppers outhit the Drive 15-12 and committed one error in the contest.
Infielder Yordany De Los Santos led Greensboro offensively, going 2-for-4 with a home run, three RBI, and two runs scored. Wyatt Sanford, Edward Florentino, Tony Blanco Jr., Jared Jones, and Cam Janik each added two hits as every player in the Grasshoppers lineup recorded at least one hit.
Greenville was led at the plate by infielder Mason White, who finished 3-for-5 with a double and two runs scored. Justin Gonzales followed with a 2-for-4 performance, adding one RBI and one run scored. Additional hits for the Drive came from Isaiah Jackson (2), Freili Encarnacion (2), Yoeilin Cespedes, Jack Winnay, and Yophery Rodriguez.
Left-handed pitcher Connor Oliver got the start for Greensboro, recording four strikeouts while allowing five hits, one earned run, and one walk across three innings. Yulian Quintana earned the win in relief for the Grasshoppers, improving to 2-0 on the season.
Right-handed pitcher Luis Cohen started for Greenville and allowed six hits and five earned runs over 0.2 innings. Cohen was charged with the loss and fell to 0-4 on the season.
The Grasshoppers are back in action at First National Bank Field on Tuesday, May 19 against the Winston-Salem Dash at 6:30PM. To purchase tickets to any home Grasshoppers game please call 336-268-2255 or visit gsohoppers.com.