DeVito Homers, Drives in Three as Legends Win
May 2, 2017 - South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Lexington Legends News Release
Chris DeVito hit his eighth home run in 10 games, and Khalil Lee and Nick Dini also homered as the Lexington Legends took an 8-4 victory over the Greensboro Grasshoppers Tuesday night in Greensboro.
The Legends scored a run in the top of the first inning when Gabriel Cancel singled with one out and came home on a double by Kort Peterson, but Greensboro answered with two runs in the second.
Walks to Colby Lusignan and Eric Gutierrez and a single by Boo Vazquez produced one run, and Gutierrez later came home on a ground out.
Lee tied the game with a solo homer, his fifth home run of the season, with one out in the third. Cancel followed with a single, and after Peterson flied out, DeVito homered to right center field, his South Atlantic League-leading ninth home run of the year, and the Legends led 4-2.
Greensboro cut the lead to one with a run in the bottom of the third, but the Legends added a run in the fourth inning and picked up another in the fifth when Cancel doubled to center field, moved to third on a ground out and scored on DeVito's sacrifice fly.
DeVito also leads the league in runs batted in with 33.
Greensboro got a run back in the bottom of the fifth on James Nelson's RBI single, but Dini's leadoff homer in the top of the sixth gave Lexington a 7-4 lead.
The Legends scored their final run in the eighth on a double by DeVito, a ground out and a wild pitch. Nolan Watson (1-4) worked the first five innings for Lexington and picked up his first win of the season.
Greensboro starter Dylan Lee (0-3) was the losing pitcher.
Game two of the three-game series will be played Wednesday morning. First pitch is set for 10:45 a.m.
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