Greenville Wins Palmetto State Nailbiter, Nip RiverDogs, 2-1
Published on August 22, 2010 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Charleston RiverDogs News Release
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Greenville's Zach Gentile scored the go-ahead run on a two-out wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth to give the Drive a 2-1 victory over the Charleston RiverDogs in South Atlantic League action at Fluor Field Sunday evening.
The Drive even the series at 1-1 in improving to 32-23, 68-57 overall, while Charleston drops to 29-27, 60-65 overall. It marks the eighth time in the Palmetto state rivalry this year that a game has been decided by one run.
Ryan Acosta (5-4) retired the first five batters he faced beginning in the seventh, but ran into two-out trouble in the eighth, when Gentile looped a double to left. After an intentional walk to Jeremy Hazelbaker, the two executed a double steal for runners at second and third. Reynaldo Rodriguez walked to load the bases, and Acosta worked to Michael Almanzar. Almanzar swung and missed at a 1-1 curveball, but the ball bounced off catcher Hector Rabago's leg and rolled up the third-base line to score Gentile for the 2-1 lead.
Anatanaer Batista (5-5) threw 2.0 hitless innings and stranded the tying run at first in the ninth inning to get the victory for Greenville.
In the first inning, Kelvin Castro doubled off the right-field wall against Greenville's Kendal Volz, took third on a wild pitch, and then scored on Rob Lyerly's RBI groundout for the 1-0 RiverDogs lead.
Charleston would score no more, collecting only three base hits against the combo of Volz, Pedro Perez and Batista. Volz worked 3.0 innings in a no-decision, permitting just one run on one hit, while walking none and punching out two.
Greenville squared the contest at 1-1 in the third off Charleston's Shane Greene on Reynaldo Rodriguez's two-out RBI single.
Greene, making his SAL debut, threw 6.0 strong innings, allowing just the one tally on four hits with one walk and a career-high tying seven strikeouts.
The RiverDogs saw their five-game road win streak go by the wayside, but the pitching staff has let just eight runs score in the last seven games.
Game three of this tilt, set for Monday at 7 p.m., features the SAL debut of Charleston right-hander Mike Gipson (NR), a 31st round pick in the 2010 Draft out of Florida Atlantic University, pitching against Greenville right-hander Pete Ruiz (8-8, 4.40 ERA).
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