Final Score from Tuesday night, at Rome, Georgia:
Rome Emperors 14, Greensboro Grasshoppers 5
(This is our Fred Anderson Toyota of Raleigh Game Report.)
WP:Riley Frey(2-0)/Jacob Bimbi(3-2)
Emperors' Line-14-10-1 Hoppers' Line- 5- 5-3
Hoppers’ 2026 record now at (43-27), and they sit at (2-2) in the Second Half…Emperors’ are (35-33)…Rome takes Game One of this week’s Best-of-Six Series set at Rome, Georgia…
A power-surge by the Rome Emperors in the Tuesday night game, as Rome posted 5 runs in the Second Inning, and then they pushed across 9 more runs, in the Bottom of the Eighth Inning, to seal the Victory…A little hard to fathom, but the game was all tied up at 5-5, before the Emperors erupted for their nine Eighth Inning scores…
The Greensboro Grasshoppers’ runs also came over a two-inning stretch…Hoppers scored 3 Runs in the Fifth Inning, and then Greensboro tallied 2 Runs, in the Top of the Eighth Inning….
Top Hopper Hitters for the Tuesday night contest:Sammy Stafura went 1-4/Triple/BB/Run/2 RBI…Josh Tate 1-4/Triple/Run…Murf Gray goes 1-4/Double/BB/RBI…Brian Sanchez 1-1/Double/RBI…Yordany De Los Santos 1-4/BB…Axiel Plaz went 0-1/3 BBs/Run…Easton Carmichael 0-3/BB/Run…Jhonny Sevrino 0-3/RBI…Carlos Caro 0-3/BB/Run…Not a ton of Hoppers’ offense, but they picked up 5 hits, and 4 of those 5 hits, were Extra Base Hits, with 2 Triples and 2 Doubles, plus on the night, the Greensboro Grasshoppers drew 8 Walks, and that led to several runs…
Hoppers’ Losing Pitcher, Jacob Bimbi, went 2/3s of an Inning, and Bimbi gave up 7 runs, on 2 hits, with 4 BBs and 0 Ks…In the Bottom of the Eighth Inning, Bimbi got tagged with a Balk, and then he loaded up the bases, and Yulian Quintana came on for Bimbi, and Quintana gave up a Grand Slam Home Run, to the Emperors’ Dixon Williams…Devastation right there, in Rome, GA…..
Game Details:
Attendance-832
Time of Game-2:49
Game Time Temp-79 Degrees/Partly Cloudy
Up Next:Greensboro Grasshoppers(43-27) at the Rome Emperors(35-33), on Wednesday night, at 6:45pm…..