Columbia Fireflies Game Notes at Augusta
September 10, 2021 - Carolina League (CarL)
Columbia Fireflies News Release
The Fireflies continue their series with the Augusta GreenJackets tonight at 7:05 pm at SRP Park. Columbia will give LHP Tyson Guerrero (0-0, 0.00 ERA) the nod and Augusta counters with RHP Jared Johnson (0-5, 7.04 ERA).
Columbia has one homestand remaining in the 2021 campaign from August 14-19. There's plenty of fun in store, including a Miller Lite $2 Tuesday, White Claw Wednesday Day and Bud Light Thirsty Thursday. In addition to the drink specials, the Fireflies will pull out all the stops for their promotions, hosting Grateful Dead Night Friday and Wands and Wizards Night Saturday. Tickets are available at FirefliesTickets.com.
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FIREFLIES SWEPT BY GREENJACKETS IN TWIN BILL: The Columbia Fireflies were sweapt in a doubleheader at SRP Park in Augusta Thursday night, losing game one 6-4 and dropping game two 4-0. The two losses brings the Fireflies losing streak to nine consecutive losses. Game One Columbia was unable to overcome an early deficit as they fell 6-4 to the Augusta GreenJackets in game one of the double header. Adrian Alcantara (L, 5-9) had a rough outing. The righty only lasted a pair of innings and was on the hook for all six runs, allowing three in the first and three in the second frame. After Alcantara, Chase Wallace and Chih-Ting Wang combined to keep the GreenJackets off the books the rest of the way. Game Two Augusta scored quickly again in game two. The Fireflies fell 4-0 to complete the sweep. Aided by an error, the GreenJackets were able to scratch across one, unearned run against Luinder Avila (L, 2-3) in the second after Christian Robinson slapped a two-out single up the middle to score Braulio Vasquez. Avila would work his way through the fifth without giving up an earned run for the Fireflies, but he didn't receive any run support as the Fireflies were left scoreless for the 11th time this season. Herard Gonzalez got the first hit for the Fireflies when he served a single to left with no outs in the seventh and final inning of the game.
LUCKY NUMBER 7?: The Fireflies have lost nine consecutive games and 13 of their last 15. Of those 13 losses, Columbia has only been within three in four games. They'll try to reverse their fortune tonight against Augusta as they throw Tyson Guerrero who has not allowed a run while pitching in the Low-A East League.
GOOD START FROM GUERRERO: Starting pitchers have been abused by the RiverDogs in this series, but in his Low-A East debut, Tyson Guerrero was able to work through 2.2 scoreless innings. While Columbia wasn't able to win the game, the start was enough to allow the Fireflies to jump out to a 3-0 lead, which amounted to their first lead of the series.
KIPP, KIPP HOORAY!: To close out the series against the RiverDogs, Brooks Conrad went to righty reliever Kipp Rollings first out of the pen. The South Carolina-native came in with a runner on first and one out, and induced an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play against the first batter he faced. Rollings would go on to work three more innings in relief, not allowing a run and inducing one more double play. The key to the reliever's success was pushing soft contact from hitters. Rollings forced 7 groundouts and allowed no air outs in his 3.2 innings of relief work. The outing lowered the righty's ERA to 4.73 while in Columbia and provided the longest scoreless inning stretch from the bullpen in the series against Charleston.
CHALLENGING LEAGUE TOP MARKS: Fireflies outfielder Juan Carlos Negret has established himself as an all-or-nothing hitter during the 2021 campaign. The slugger leads the Low-A East League with 22 homers, which is the most in a single season in Fireflies history. He trails just Dash Winningham, who hit 25 homers between the 2016 and 2017 campaigns for the most all-time homers in Fireflies history. Negret has also done an excellent job at producing RBI this season. Despite having a sub-.200 batting average, Negret has driven in 74 RBI, which is good for the second-best in the league in the 2021 campaign. He only trails Charleston's Diego Infante, who has sent home 77 RBI for the RiverDogs this season.
Carolina League Stories from September 10, 2021
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