Charleston 13, Lexington 3
(Charleston, WV – August 6, 2024) – The Dirty Birds score 13 runs off 15 hits in the opening game against their Southern Division Rivals. The Legends pitching staff walked eight Charleston batters in the nine inning contest.
The Dirty Birds starter Adrian Almeida earned his fifth win of the season. The left handed pitcher allowed two earned runs in six innings. The Venezuelan native struck out six batters while walking two. Bryan Quillens and Gerald Ogando combined for three perfect innings with three strikeouts.
Offensively, eight of the nine Charleston batters recorded at least one hit. Joseph Rosa, Jared Carr, and Tillman Pugh all had three hits in the game. Rosa hit his fifth home run of the season and Rusber Estrada had his 18th.
The Dirty Birds stay in first place in second half standings. They host Lexington tomorrow for the final 12:05 start of the season.
York 10, Hagerstown 1
(August 6, 2024 – Hagerstown, MD): The York Revolution squashed the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars, 10-1 in a rain-shortened game on Tuesday night at Meritus Park. The game was delayed in the top of the seventh inning due to rain and persistent lightning, and was finally called after a lengthy delay.
Returning to the field for the first time since Friday night, York reached base four times in the first inning on a pair of walks and two hit by pitches, but Hagerstown starter Yeudy Garcia escaped thanks to a double play earlier in the inning despite throwing 30 pitches, only 14 of which were strikes.
York broke through in the top of the second as new addition Alerick Soularie, signed earlier in the day, belted an opposite field two-run homer to right becoming the sixth player in Revs history to homer in his first plate appearance with the team and the first since 2019.
The Revs kept the pressure on in the third as Zander Wiel took a leadoff walk and Jacob Rhinesmith drilled a double down the right field line. Alfredo Reyes singled through the right side to plate Wiel, and Michael Berglund added a sac fly to center to make it 4-0.
Hagerstown got on the board on an RBI single to center by Welington Dotel with two outs in the bottom of the third, but that was the only run allowed by Revs starter Ethan Lindow (10-4) who retired his final 10 batters of the night, striking out the side in the sixth.
The Revs continued to pile on offensively, scoring twice more in the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings.
Berglund ripped an RBI single to right and later scored on a throwing error in the fifth.
David Washington cracked an RBI double to right center for a run in the sixth, and the Revs picked up one more when Reyes and Wiel pulled off a double steal with Wiel coming in from third base to go up 8-1.
Play continued in the seventh despite persistent heavy rain and widespread lightning in the area. McDermott beat out an RBI infield single and Wiel legged out an attempted double play turn to drive in a run as the offense reached double digits on the night. Play was finally halted shortly after with the game eventually ruled final.
Notes: York moves back to 30 games above .500 at 59-29 on the season including a league-best 31-13 road mark. They are now 42-18 against the North Division including an 11-3 mark against Hagerstown (4-0 at Meritus Park) having won seven straight head-to-head. The Revs improve to 16-9 in the second half, half a game behind Lancaster for first place in the North Division. Lindow’s win is his eighth straight, tied for the second longest winning streak by a pitcher in Revs history (Corey Thurman, 2012), one shy of matching a club record set by Mitch Atkins in 2019; his 10 wins are tied for the league lead overall. York leadoff batters reached safely in every inning including via walks in five of the seven innings; in six of the seven innings, they had at least the first two batters reach safely. In addition to becoming the sixth in Revs history and first since Emmanuel Marrero (2019) to homer in his first plate appearance with the Revs, Soularie becomes the 14th in Revs history and third this season (Matt McDermott, David Washington) to go yard in his first Revs game as well as the 17th in Revs history and fourth this year (McDermott, Washington, Ciaran Devenney) to go yard for his first Revs hit. York will go for a 14th road series win in 16 tries on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. as LHP Aaron Fletcher faces RHP Parker Markel. Revs fans can catch the action live on SportsRadio 98.9 FM & 1350 WOYK, 989woyk.com, The New WOYK app, and FloBaseball.TV beginning at 6:10 p.m.
High Point 8, Gastonia 5
GASTONIA, N.C. – The High Point Rockers pounded out 15 hits and Connor Owings went five-for-five as the Rockers won the series opener at Gastonia 8-5 on Tuesday night.
The win pushed the Rockers from third to second in the Atlantic League’s South Division. Charleston continues to lead the division in the second half at 17-8 while High Point, at 16-10, is a half-game in front of Gastonia (16-11).
Owings posted the first five-hit game by a Rocker this season. He had an RBI single in the first, a single in the third, a double in the fifth, a two-run homer in the seventh and a Texas League single in the eighth.
High Point took a 1-0 lead in the first when Martin Figueroa led off the game with a single, moved to second on an infield groundout by Evan Edwards and scored on a single by Owings.
Gastonia tied the game in the bottom of the first when Josh Stowers singled, stole second, and came around on Jake Gatewood’s single.
D.J. Burt scored from third on a passed ball in the fourth to give the Rockers a 2-1 lead. Burt had beaten out an infield single and moved to third on a double by Figueroa.
Gastonia got to High Point starter Jeremy Rhoades for four runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 5-2 lead. The GBC banged our four consecutive hits, including three straight doubles, in the frame.
Brian Parreira homered to right with Owings aboard in the fifth to pull the Rockers to within one at 5-4.
Rockers reliever Austin Warner (W, 1-1) kept the GBC scoreless through his two innings of work in the fifth and sixth.
Quincy Nieporte, who joined the Rockers earlier in the day after having been in High Point in 2021, singled off reliever Julian Smith (L, 1-1) to lead off the seventh and scored on Owings’ homer that put High Point ahead 6-5. Figueroa then hammered a solo shot off Nick Horvath leading off the eighth to give the Rockers a 7-5 cushion. Ben Aklinski followed with a single and stole second before scoring on Nieporte’s double to center for an 8-5 lead.
Rockers’ reliever Dakota Chalmers pitched around a lead-off walk in the eighth and returned in the ninth and put Gastonia down in order to earn the two inning save, his sixth of the season.
Rhoades allowed five runs on eight hits over his four innings while walking one and striking out six.
Gastonia starter Morgan McSweeney yielded five hits and a run over his three innings of work with two walks and five strikeouts.
Figueroa finished the night with three hits and a pair of runs scored while Owings added three RBI and scored twice.
Game two of the series is scheduled for Wednesday at 7 o’clock at CaroMont Health Park.
Southern Maryland at Lancaster (suspended)
Tuesday night’s scheduled game between the Lancaster Stormers and Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was suspended due to rain and will be continued at the point of stoppage Wednesday afternoon at 3:00. The suspended game will last a full nine innings. It will be followed by a seven-inning contest that will start roughly 30 minutes after the suspended game is completed.
Noah Bremer retired the first two Southern Maryland batters of the night and was about to face designated hitter Jomar Reyes when a power outage struck Clipper Magazine Stadium. By the time the power was restored and the stadium lights turned back on, a heavy thunderstorm had broken loose on the field.
With storms forecast to keep rolling through the area until after midnight, the decision was made to suspend the game.
Wednesday’s suspended game completion will be carried on FloBaseball, beginning at 2:55. The regularly scheduled game will be carried live on Flo and Blue Ridge 11.