GreenJackets Buzz Past Drive, 8-2
July 10, 2014 - South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Greenville Drive News Release
Greenville, SC - Returning home wasn't the cure for the Greenville Drive's (3-19, 37-54) second-half woes on Thursday night, as the Augusta GreenJackets (11-11, 45-45) ran away with an 8-2 win in front of 6,417 fans at Fluor Field.
The GreenJackets got to Drive starter Teddy Stankiewicz (6-7) for four runs in the fifth inning to break a 1-1 tie. Three consecutive singles began the frame, with the third being an RBI single by Chris Lofton. Two batters later, Ty Ross crushed a three-run homer high off the building in left field to make the score 5-1.
Luis Ysla (6-5) took home the victory for Augusta, working five innings and giving up a pair of runs. Raymundo Montero and Luis Castillo worked a pair of scoreless frames each, with Castillo recording his eighth save.
The Drive took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second when Carlos Asuaje drove an Ysla offering over the wall in right-center for a solo homer, his 11th of the season.
An error by Stankiewicz allowed Augusta to tie the game in the fourth.
Tzu-Wei Lin delivered a bases-loaded groundout in the bottom of the fifth to make the score 5-2. The score remained there until the ninth, when Eric Sim lined a bases-clearing triple to the left field corner off Sergio Gomez.
Five Augusta hitters collected multi-hit games, with Ross leading the way with two hits and the three-run homer. Zach Kapstein had a pair of hits for Greenville.
The series continues at Fluor Field on Friday night, with first pitch set for 7:05. LH Trey Ball (1-7, 6.08) starts for the Drive, while the GreenJackets counter with RH Chase Johnson (1-5, 4.95).
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