from First National Bank Field on Sunday afternoon, the Greensboro Grasshoppers get their Second Perfect Game in the past 10 days…
*********The Grasshoppers’ Titus Dumitru went 3-3/ and Dumitru reaching on the Catcher’s Interference, has been changed to Pitch Clock Violation against Bowling Green, and No Error on the Hot Rods…Titus Dumitru worked the count to 3-2, and then was awarded ball four and reached First Base(With a Walk), on a Pitch Clock Violation, as the required time between pitches had run out/expired…This word on Monday from Don Tilley(Greensboro Grasshoppers Scoreboard Operator), who spoke with Greensboro Grasshoppers Official Scorer Jeff Mills, and Jeff Mills verified the Pitch Clock Violation….Error removed from the BG Hot Rods portion of the line score, and 0’s across the line for Bowling Green….And that’s a whole lot of zeros…**********
Final Score:Greensboro Grasshoppers 4, Bowling Green Hot Rods 0
Perfect Game delivered from the Greensboro Grasshoppers pitching staff, with the Combined Perfect Game coming from:
Hung-Leng Chang…5 Innings/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/5 Ks
Joshua Loeschorn…2 Innings/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/1 K
Jake Shirk…1 Inning/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/1 K
and Jarod Bayless….1 Inning/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/0 Ks
WP:Chang(5-4)/LP:Drew Dowd(3-4)
Hoppers' Line- 4-8-0 Hot Rods' Line-0-0-0
Hot Rods 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Grasshoppers 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 X 4 8 0
Makes you wonder what the Pittsburgh Pirates top brass are thinking about this Greensboro Grasshoppers team…Second Perfect Game in the past 10 days, and they have to be thinking or at least saying, “What kind of team do we really have down there in Greensboro, N.C.???”…..
On a day when many around the First National Bank Field were thinking, well it is the last day before the BIG Four-Day MLB All-Star Game break, and all you need to do is be careful, get the game in, and then get out of town FAST…But, the Greensboro Grasshoppers, led by starting pitcher Hung-Leng Chang, who we often like to call Michael Chang(Grand Slam Tennis player Michael Chang), well Hung-Leng and his mates had other ideas…
The Hoppers’ pitchers came in on this Sunday and they would give up NO ground, and they would give up NO Hits, and would not let any Bowling Green Hot Rod runners reach first base….A Perfect Game….
The Mr. Perfect from the past would have loved this baseball game…That being the now deceased, Mr. Perfect, Curt Hennig…The Hoppers played “Mr. Perfect” for the second time in the past 10 days…The Greensboro Grasshoppers had the Perfect Game up at Aberdeen, Maryland, vs. the Aberdeen Ironbirds back on Friday night, July 4…
Khristian Curtis, Jake Shirk, and Mike Walsh got the Perfect job done at Aberdeen last Friday night July 4…On Sunday afternoon, there was Jake Shirk again, right in the middle and part of another Perfect Game in the span of just over a week’s time…I just met a former classmate of Jake Shirk’s back on Friday afternoon at my Fidelity Bank, and this guy was in the second grade with Jake Shirk, back at Fort Wayne, Indiana….As Mr. Disney used to say, “It is a Small World after all”…
Khristian Curtis, Jake Shirk, and Mike Walsh go Perfect back at Aberdeen, and now Hung-Leng Chang, Joshua Loeschorn, Shirk, and Jarod Bayless are Perfect on Sunday afternoon at FNB Field…Jake Shirk, part of Two Perfect Games, in just over a week…That is some kind of career highlights reel right there…Geovanny Planchart was behind the plate, catching on Sunday afternoon for the Hoppers, while Derek Berg caught the Perfect Game at Aberdeen…Berg was in the lineup on Sunday, as he was positioned at first base on defense….Berg with a hit, a walk, and a run scored on Sunday, on the offensive end…
Other key offensive contributors on Sunday included, leadoff man Will Taylor who went 1-3/BB/2 Runs/RBI/SB…And the hottest Hopper hitter on Sunday was Titus Dumitru who was going 3-3/Pitch Clock Violation-Walk/RBI/SB…Keiner Delgado was 1-3/BB/RBI…Javier Rivas 0-3/HBP/RBI with his Bases-Loaded Hit by Pitch…Shalin Polanco 1-4…Geovanny Planchart went 1-4/Run…
REMAX Revolution Players of the Game:
Hung-Leng Chang…5 Innings/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/5 Ks
Joshua Loeschorn…2 Innings/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/1 K
Jake Shirk…1 Inning/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/1 K
and Jarod Bayless….1 Inning/0 Runs/0 Hits/0 BBs/0 Ks
**********Got to give it to the pitching staff that was able to complete and finish that “Perfect Game”…..Also we give an offensive tip of the cap to Titus Dumitru, going 3-3 and on base four times, in the contest…Plus he added in a Stolen Base, and an RBI…**********
Game Details:
Game Attendance-2,573
Game Time Temp-91 degrees
Game Time of Game-2:22
++++++++++Hoppers win Weekly Six-Game Series with Bowling Green, Four(4) games-to-two(2)…Hoppers led the Season-Series with the BG Hot Rods, 10-7….++++++++++
MLB All-Star Game break has begun, and the Greensboro Grasshoppers are OFF on Monday-Thursday, and back in action on Friday, at the WS Dash…..