IL Norfolk Tides

Bradish Deals in Series Opening Win at Scranton

April 12, 2022 - International League (IL)
Norfolk Tides News Release


The Norfolk Tides beat the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, 3-1, Tuesday night. The Tides outhit the RailRiders, and took advantage of an error and wild pitches to score their runs.

Through the first four innings of the game, it was a pitcher's duel. Kyle Bradish excelled in his 2022 season debut, retiring 12 of 14 batters faced. He threw four scoreless innings, allowing just two hits and no walks while striking out six. Opposing him was Matt Krook, who also threw four scoreless innings to start the night. He finished with five hits allowed and seven strikeouts.

Krook couldn't get through the fifth inning of his second start, however. After a single by Cadyn Grenier, Richie Martin followed with his own hit and scored Grenier due to a fielding error by Ender Inciarte. Manny Banuelos entered for Scranton/WB in the sixth and let up run himself on a bases loaded wild pitch. Norfolk led 2-0 in the middle of the sixth.

Scranton/WB put themselves on the board in the bottom of the sixth. Estevan Florial led off the inning with a ground-rule double. He scored on a double by Miguel Andujar to put the game at 2-1, Tides.

Other than that run, Tides reliever Ryan Hartman had a solid outing and earned his first win of the season after striking out four in four relief innings. Nick Vespi entered to close for the Tides and earned his first save of the season. Vespi struck out the side, with each of the hitters going down looking.

Tomorrow, RHP Chris Ellis (0-0, ---) will make his season debut with the Tides and will face off against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre starter RHP Hayden Wesneski (0-0, 0.00). First pitch at 6:35 p.m.

POSTGAME NOTES

GETTING STARTED: Starting pitchers are doing well for Norfolk in their first seven games, allowing a 3.80 ERA (11 ER, 26.0 IP)...Kyle Bradish's scoreless outing was the third time a Norfolk starter went 4.0 innings without allowing an earned run this season, joining Alex Wells (April 7 vs. Charlotte) and Grayson Rodriguez (April 8 vs. Charlotte).

HARTMAN GOES LONG: After Bradish ended his outing, Ryan Hartman entered to throw four innings of relief...it's the fourth time in seven games the Tides had a reliever go 4.0 innings, with two of those outings coming from Hartman...so far this season, Hartman is 1-0 with a 1.13 ERA (1 ER, 8.0 IP) and two walks to eight strikeouts...tonight was his third career win as a Tide, with his last coming on September 26 at Charlotte.

LONG TIME, NO SEE: Tonight's game was the first time since 2019 when these two teams faced off, where Scranton took five of six game from Norfolk...in a three-game series at Scranton from June 18-20, 2019 the Tides were swept...tonight's win is the first time Norfolk won at Scranton/WB since on August 9, 2018.

TYLER, THE RUN CREATOR: In each of his games so far, Tyler Nevin has totaled four RBI, with three on Saturday and one on Sunday...he's now scored in back-to-back games, recording the only multi-hit effort by a Tide Tuesday night...he went 2-for-4 and is hitting .364 in the young season...in 2021, he ranked second on the Tides in games played last season with 111, while leading the team in RBI with 52.

SIDE GAME NOTES: After making an out and playing the field in the first inning, Yusniel Diaz was replaced by Johnny Rizer in right field before the second inning.

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