Grasshoppers Edge Cyclones to Extend Win Streak
from Callie Cline with Greensboro Grasshopppers Media, and from www.gsohoppers.com
More info below from The LONG GONE Baseball Radio Network, and from GreensboroSports.com…
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro Grasshoppers edged out the Brooklyn Cyclones, 6–5, on Saturday, July 26, at First National Bank Field. With the win, the Grasshoppers improved to 22–7 in the second half of the season, while the Cyclones dropped to 12–17. Greensboro outhit Brooklyn 10–8, as the Cyclones committed one defensive error.
Outfielder Titus Dumitru led the Grasshoppers offensively, going 3-for-4 with two doubles and a run scored. Infielder Konnor Griffin followed with a 2-for-4 performance, including a triple and one run. Additional hits for Greensboro came from Shalin Polanco (2), Tres Gonzalez, Geovanny Planchart, and Jesus Castillo.
Catcher Onix Vega paced the Cyclones’ offense, going 2-for-4 with a home run, a double, two RBIs, and a run scored. Outfielder Eli Serrano III also went 2-for-4, while Marco Vargas, Jesus Baez, Corey Collins, and Diego Mosquera each contributed a hit.
Left-handed starter Dominic Perachi took the mound for Greensboro, striking out five while allowing just two hits and one walk over four innings. Jaycob Deese earned the win and improved to 5–2 on the season, while Joshua Loeschorn notched his second hold.
For Brooklyn, right-hander Nate Dohm got the start, tossing three innings with two strikeouts and two hits allowed. Frank Elissalt took the loss and fell to 1–1 on the year.
The Grasshoppers finish up their home series against the Cyclones tomorrow, July 29 at 2:00PM for Family Funday Sunday. To purchase tickets to any Grasshoppers home game please called (336) 268-2255 or visit gsohoppers.com.
from The LONG GONE Baseball Radio Network, and from GreensboroSports.com:
This HopperMania is for real…Greensboro Grasshoppers at (5-0) this week versus the Brooklyn Cyclones, and Hoppers hoping to extend that mark to (6-0) on Sunday, with the last game of the Six-Game Series vs. Brooklyn…
Saturday night the Grasshoppers trailed the Cyclones, 1-0, after six innings, and the score may as well been, 100-0, because the Hoppers could not get it clicking…Well, it was almost clicking, but it just wasn’t sticking…
After six innings, the Greensboro Grasshoppers trailed Brooklyn 1-0, and the Hoppers had just four hits…Two of those four hits belonged to Konnor Griffin, who had a Triple and a Single…Titus Dumitru had a Double, while Tres Gonzalez produced a single…
Then here comes that HopperMania Move in the seventh inning, and that’s where the Grasshoppers got it clicking with four runs, on three hits, with a BB, and a HBP…Four runs and the Hoppers took a 4-1 lead…Brooklyn made it 4-2 Hoppers, with a run in the Top of the Eighth Inning…Greensboro made it grow to 6-2, with two more key runs in the bottom of the eighth inning…Then Brookly got an RBI single, plus a Two-Run HR, make it a One-Run Game as the Cyclones score three key runs there in the 8th, and Brooklyn makes it a One-Run Game, Hoppers up on Cyclones, 6-5…
Greensboro would wrap it, and finish it off on Christmas in July, and the Hoppers got the win, and the celebration was on…Still got to get all the HopperMania action going, that we can…Spread the word, HopperMania, is ON, and what you going to do brother, “When HopperMania Rains/Reigns All Over You”…..
Very solid games to help the HopperMania get moving, and those games belonged to Shalin Polanco and Titus Dumitru…Polanco hit another LONG GONE Home Run, out of the ballpark, while Dumitru was pivotal, with his 3-4 night, going for Two Doubles, a Single, and he had One Run….Also add in a Single, plus 3 RBI for Polanco, plus Two Runs Scored…Five of the Hoppers’ 10 hits coming from Dumitru and Polanco…
Polanco and Dumitru on Connor Ballou’s List for Golden Corral, Players of the Game…Hoppers bullpen strong again, in Saturday night, at First National Bank Field….The Onix Vega home run for Brooklyn was big late in the game, and it made it a very tight, 6-5 finish…
HopperMania now rolling, and growing, and the Saturday night win, over the Brooklyn Cyclones, makes the Mania bigger and more important than ever…HopperMania is starting to run Wild, at First National Bank Field…
Game Details:
Game Attendance-5,438
Game Time of Game-2:346
First Pitch came in at: 6:31pm
Final Score:Greensboro Grasshoppers 6, Brooklyn Cyclones 5
WP:Jaycob Deese(5-2)/LP:Frank Ellisalt(1-1)
Hopper relievers, Jake Shirk, Inmer Lobo, Jaycob Deese, Joshua Loeschorn, and Landon Tompkins all worked one inning each, for the Hoppers….
Hoppers' Line- 6-10-0 Cyclones' Line-5- 8-1
Greensboro Grasshoppers(67-27/22-7)
Brooklyn Cyclones(58-37/12-17)
Since Saturday night was Christmas in July Night at the Ballpark, the song/story we liked best was, “The Miracle on Bellemeade Street”….
Up Next:Brooklyn Cyclones at the Greensboro Grasshoppers on Sunday afternoon, at 2pm…Game On at First National Bank Field…Kids play Catch on the Field before the game, and then The Kids Run the Bases, after the game….
If you can’t make it out to the game, or if you need to know what all is going on, CLICK HERE and listen to the Hoppers-Cyclones game LIVE…