SAL Bowling Green Hot Rods

Hot Rods Launch Season-Best Five Home Runs in Victory

Published on June 7, 2022 under South Atlantic League (SAL)
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Bowling Green, Kentucky- Four Bowling Green Hot Rods (32-19) went deep, including two long balls from Ronny Simon, in the Hot Rods shutout of the Hickory Crawdads (30-22) 6-0 on Tuesday at Bowling Green Ballpark. BG and Hickory continue their series on Wednesday at 12:05 PM CT.

Bowling Green started off the scoring loudly, with Dru Baker leading off the bottom of the first with a solo blast off Hickory starter Tekoah Roby. Diego Infante smacked a solo shot of his own to right-center to make it 2-0 Hot Rods. Simon added another solo home run to lead off the second inning increasing BG's lead to 3-0.

Simon added his second homer of the game in the seventh inning off Crawdads reliever Leury Tejada, bouncing off the videoboard to grow the lead to 4-0. Another two runs came via the long ball in the eighth with a two-run shot by Kyle Manzardo that finalized the score; a 6-0 victory for Bowling Green.

Conor Dryer tossed 4.0 scoreless frames, allowing two hits and striking out two in a no-decision. Franklin Dacosta (1-2) earned his first win of the season in 3.0 scoreless innings. He allowed three hits and struck out two Crawdads. Cameron Leonard finished things off with 2.0 scoreless frames, allowing one hit and striking out two.

Notes: Baker's first at-bat in Bowling Green ballpark was a home run... Dryer went 4.0 scoreless innings in his second-straight start... Simon hit two home runs in a game for the second time this season... It was the fourth multi-homer game for a Hot Rods Hitter... All four multi-home run games for BG in 2022 have come at Bowling Green Ballpark... BG hit five home runs as a team, the most in a game this season... For the first time this season, every Hot Rods run was driven in by a home run... Bowling Green's pitching staff did not walk a batter for the third time in 2022... They also shut out their third different opponent in their fourth shutout of the season... The Hot Rods and Crawdads resume their series on Wednesday morning... Hot Rods LH Patrick Wicklander (0-2, 8.76) faces off against Crawdads RH Ricky Vanasco (0-2, 6.04)... Fans can watch live on MiLB.tv, listen via the MiLB First Pitch app on Android and IOS, or go to the Hot Rods website at www.bghotrods.com.

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