SAL Greenville Drive

Greenville Hammers Hickory, 14-7

Published on September 10, 2021 under South Atlantic League (SAL)
Greenville Drive News Release


Hickory, N.C. - The Drive smoked four homers and scored in six innings while Brandon Walter fired 5.0 innings of one run ball to lift Greenville to a 14-7 win Friday night at L.P. Frans Stadium.

To go along with those four homers, the offense banged out 16 hits, a double and a triple. Every Drive player tallied a hit while eight drove in a run. Tyler Dearden, Wil Dalton, Joe Davis and Christian Koss homered. Dearden's and Koss' were solo shots while Davis' and Dalton's were both three-run jacks. Koss had a game-high three hits. Five batters registered two hits: Nick Yorke, Dearden, Dom D'Alessandro, Brandon Howlett and Davis.

Walter started for the Drive and tallied his fourth win of the season. He tossed 5.0 innings and relented one run, unearned, on two hits and three walks while fanning eight.

Avery Weems took the loss for Hickory after surrendering five runs, three earned, over 4.0 innings.

Greenville opened the scoring in the second inning. Brandon Howlett walked start off the inning and advanced to second when Joe Davis reached on a fielding error. Groshans followed with an RBI single. After two strikeouts, Marrero laced an RBI single to give the away team a 2-0 advantage.

Hickory cut the lead in half in the third inning when the scored on a passed ball.

The Drive, however, plated three runs in the fourth frame. With one out, Dalton was hit-by-pitch. That brought up D'Alessandro who doubled home Dalton. Two batters later, Yorke singled to put runners at the corners. Back-to-back RBI singles by Dearden and Koss capped the inning, staking Greenville to a 5-1 lead.

The following inning the away team's lead grew, 8-1. Davis led off the frame with a single. Groshans went to the batter's box next and drew a walk. The third batter of the inning, Dalton, crushed a three-run homer, his seventh of the year and second in as many days.

Greenville extended the lead to 9-1 in the sixth on a leadoff homer from Dearden. It was his 23rd of the season.

The Crawdads scored two runs in the bottom half of the sixth on a two-run homer by David Garcia.

The game grew tight in the seventh inning when Hickory plated four runs on a solo homer by Pedro Gonzalez, an RBI groundout by Frainyer Chavez and two-run homer by Dustin Harris.

But the Drive responded with a four-spot of its own in the top of the eighth. Koss began the inning with a single and got to second on a Dearden walk. Howlett then stepped to the plate and knoced in Koss with a single. The big hit of the inning came next when Davis belted a three-run homer to left-center. The Drive led, 13-7.

Greenville added one more in the top of the ninth when Koss went deep, his 14th homer of the year.

Game five is set for 7:00 PM Saturday at L.P. Frans Stadium. The Drive will throw Yusniel Padron-Artiles while Hickory is slated to start Ben Anderson.

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