Crawdads Squash Grasshoppers
Published on August 6, 2009 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Hickory Crawdads News Release
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Hickory Crawdads struck for five runs in the first inning and never looked back, cruising to the 9-4 win against the Greensboro Grasshoppers before 6,879 fans at NewBridge Bank Park on Thursday evening.
The Crawdads (21-18, 54-54) came out of the gates on fire, scoring five runs on five hits and one Greensboro error in the top of the first inning. LF Jared Bolden and 1B Erik Morrison sparked the rally with back-to-back one-out singles against RHP Kyle Kaminska (7-7). C Doug Hogan then reached all the way to second base on an error charged to 3B Paul Gran, which scored Bolden and moved Morrison to third base. After 2B Mike Hollander was hit by a pitch to load the bases, 3B Matt West ripped an RBI single to left field to score Morrison and reload the bases. LF Eric Fry followed with a two run single, plating Hogan and Hollander, before West came in on an RBI double by LF Cristian Santana to cap the big first inning and put the Crawdads ahead, 5-0.
Greensboro (13-26, 50-59) got on the board against RHP Wilmer Font (7-2) with a run in the bottom of the second inning. RF Justin Bass scored on a two-out, RBI single by 2B Daniel Pertusati to get Greensboro on the board.
Hickory responded with a run in the top of the third on a Fry sacrifice fly, and then scored two more in the top of the fourth, when Hogan belted a two-run home run over the left field wall, making it 8-1.
The Grasshoppers drew a little closer with a run in the bottom of the fifth against Font in his final inning of work. The Crawdads, though, quickly stretched the lead back to seven runs, when Morrison drove in SS Leury Garcia with a two-out, RBI double to right-center field in the top of the sixth. Greensboro came back with a solo homer from LF Justin Jacobs in the bottom of the sixth against LHP Yoon-Hee Nam to cut the lead down to six, 9-3.
Nam quickly got on track and kept the six-run lead intact through the seventh, before RHP Corey Ragsdale took over on the mound and tossed a scoreless eighth inning. The Grasshoppers tacked on a run in the bottom of the ninth, on a solo shot by 1B Ben Lasater, but RHP Fabio Castillo got out of the rest of the inning with no further damage done, closing the 9-4 win for Hickory. Font earned the win for the Crawdads, while Kaminska was tagged with the loss for Greensboro.
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