Fireflies Game Notes: May 3 vs. Lexington (Game 27)
May 3, 2018 - South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Columbia Fireflies News Release
Columbia Fireflies (13-13) vs. Lexington Legends (13-11)
RHP Tony Dibrell (0-1, 6.41) vs. LHP Daniel Tillo (0-1, 3.52)
Thurs., May 3, 2018 - Spirit Communications Park - First Pitch 7:05 p.m. - Game 27
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ABOUT LAST GAME: In front of an energetic crowd of 6,282 fans on Wednesday afternoon, the Fireflies pounded the Legends, 9-1. Columbia snapped its five-game losing streak and climbed back to .500 on the season at 13-13. Starter Marcel Renteria logged a Fireflies-season best 7.2 innings and picked up his second win of the year.
RECORD CROWD: The crowd of 6,282 was a record for a Palmetto Health Children's Hospital Reading Program Day. The program has expanded to 173 schools and nearly 67,000 students in just three years.
DOMINATION: Wednesday's final score featured the largest margin of victory of the year. The nine runs on Wed. were also a season-high.
DOMINATION, Pt. II: Columbia has now scored five or more runs in 16 of its 26 games. Only the Delmarva Shorebirds have scored more runs this season than the Fireflies.
GOING YARD: Columbia's big innings on Wednesday were the fourth and fifth frames when the Fireflies scored seven total runs. Matt Winaker blasted a solo home run in that fourth, the first of his professional career (in 45 games). Winaker hit the home run off of Collin Snider, a friend and former teammate will playing in the Cape Cod Baseball League in 2016 (Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox).
THE STREAK: Jeremy Vasquez reached base three times on Wednesday and has now reached base safely in 25 straight games - tied for the second-longest active streak in all of pro baseball (MLB & MiLB).
1. 28, Odubel Herrera (Philadelphia Phillies)
2. 25, Jeremy Vasquez (NYM, A)
2. 25, Logan Taylor (Modesto Nuts, SEA, A+)
2. 25, Tyler White (Fresno Grizzlies, HOU, AAA)
Vasquez leads the league in on-base percentage (.467) and walks (21) and is fourth in the SAL in batting average (.341).
CHEERS: Vasquez was named South Atlantic League Player of the Week for April 23-29. The lefty slugger hit .360 (9-for-25) with five extra-base hits (3 2Bs, 1 3B, 1 HR), four RBI, five runs scored and two walks.
South Atlantic League Stories from May 3, 2018
- Feeling the Rhythm, Hess Delivers in Extra Inning Walk-Off for the RiverDogs - Charleston RiverDogs
- Schilling Shines But Tourists Lose in Extras - Asheville Tourists
- Gladu Knocks out Lexington with 10th Inning Double - Columbia Fireflies
- Lexington Legends Have First Taste of Extra Innings and Fall to Columbia, 4-3 - Lexington Legends
- I's Hold on to Sweep the 'Dads - Kannapolis Cannon Ballers
- New Hopper Jones Blasts Two Home Runs - Greensboro Grasshoppers
- Fireflies Game Notes: May 3 vs. Lexington (Game 27) - Columbia Fireflies
- Crawdads' Battle of the PTOs Raises over $2,500 - Hickory Crawdads
- McCoy Single Wins Wild One in 11th - Delmarva Shorebirds
- Juan Soto Named Class-A Player of the Month with Suns - Hagerstown Suns
- Drive Stunned by Shorebirds in Extras - Greenville Drive
- West Virginia Power: Game Notes (May 3) - Charleston Dirty Birds
- RiverDogs Host Dogs with a Cause in Conjunction with Blackbaud - Charleston RiverDogs
- Braves Bury BlueClaws 8-5 - Rome Emperors
- Braves Top Claws 8-5; Take Two of Three in Series - Jersey Shore BlueClaws
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