Florence Slams Joliet to Sweep Series
July 4, 2021 - Frontier League (FL)
Florence Y'alls News Release
JOLIET, IL - As fireworks popped in the distance, the Florence Y'alls provided their own fireworks display at DuPage Medical Group Field. The Y'alls scored early and often, putting up a crooked number in four innings and scoring at least one run in six innings in a 15-1 rout of Joliet Sunday evening.
The Fourth of July win secures a series sweep for Florence (22-13), and with a loss for the Evansville Otters, the Y'alls pull back within two games of the West Division lead. Joliet drops to 13-21.
Florence started things with a bang in the first inning, scoring two runs on a Chad Sedio two-run double and a Trevor Craport RBI-double of his own to take a 3-0 lead. The Y'alls added another run in the second frame on a Sedio single to score Rodney Tennie.
Florence scored four more runs in the fourth inning behind RBI hits from Tennie and Axel Johnson. Connor Crane walked in a run and Harrison DiNicola brought home a run on a sacrifice fly. The Y'alls again matched the inning to their run total with a five-spot in the fifth inning. That inning was highlighted by an RBI-single for DiNicola, and two runs scored on a dropped fly ball in center field. After the fifth, it was a 13-1 score.
The Y'alls added on two more runs in the sixth inning thanks to an RBI-double from Johnny Knight and a Connor Crane RBI hit for a 15-1 advantage. Joliet, on the other hand, got its only runs on a Sean Green infield single in the fourth inning and a Jackson Dvorak RBI-double in the ninth inning.
Kevin Hahn gets his second win of the road trip by firing six innings of one-run baseball. He struck out two, walked three, and allowed seven hits. Austin Shea takes the loss for Joliet; the righty lasted just one 2/3 innings and gets hit with four earned runs. The Slammers used six relief pitchers to get through the game. Of the 11 runs charged to Joliet relief pitchers, just three were earned thanks to three fielding errors committed by the Slammers.
With four wins out of six games on the road trip, the Y'alls head back home for an off day on Monday ahead of a three-game series against the Lake Erie Crushers beginning on Tuesday, July 6. Hayden Wheeler gets the ball in the first game of the series with first pitch set at 6:32p ET. Gates at Y'alls Ballpark open an hour prior to game time.
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