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SAL1 Lexington Legends

Legends Rally to Gain Split

April 7, 2012 - South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Lexington Legends News Release


(GREENSBORO, N.C.) The Lexington Legends rallied with three runs in the top of the seventh inning and defeated the Greensboro Grasshoppers 5-3 in the second game of a doubleheader in Greensboro Saturday. The Grasshoppers won the first game 11-1 after scoring nine runs in the third inning. Both were seven-inning games.

In the second game, the Legends trailed 3-2 going into the seventh. With one out, Drew Muren singled, stole second and came home with the tying run on a single by Roberto Pena. Justin Gominsky ran for Pena and advanced to second on a hit by Jimmy Howick. Gominsky scored the go-ahead run on a single up the middle by Delino DeShields Jr. Jordan Scott followed with a sacrifice fly to score Howick from third with the final run. It was Scott's third run batted in of the game.

Greensboro had taken a 2-0 lead with a run in the first inning on back-to-back doubles by Brent Keys and Austin Barnes and a solo homer in the second by James Wooster. The Legends tied it in the third on a double by Muren, a walk to Pena, a sacrifice by Howick and Scott's two-run single to center field.

The Grasshoppers reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the third on a single by Keys, a wild pitch, a single by former Western Kentucky star Terrence Dayleg and an RBI ground out by Rand Smith. The 3-2 lead stood up until the Legends' seventh-inning comeback.

Dayan Diaz (1-0), who entered the game in the fifth inning in relief of starter Carlos Quevedo, picked up the win. Jason Chowning got the final two outs to earn his first save of 2012. James Nygren (0-1), relieved Jose Fernandez at the start of the seventh inning, was the losing pitcher. Fernandez allowed three hits and struck out 10 batters in six innings.

The first game was scoreless until Greensboro exploded for 10 hits in their big third inning, including a leadoff home run by Ryan McIntyre. After a ground out, the next eight Greensboro batters hit safely. McIntyre had a two-run double in the inning in addition to his homer, and Wooster also had a two-run double. Alfredo Lopez also had two hits in the inning, in which 13 batters went to the plate for Greensboro.

The Grasshoppers added a run in the fourth on a solo homer by Josh Adams and another in the fifth on an RBI single by Ryan Goetz.

The Legends scored their only run in the top of the fifth on a triple by Alex Todd and a single by DeShields.

Greensboro's Josh Hodges (1-0) was the starter and winner. He worked five innings. Lexington starter Tanner Bushue (0-1), who pitched the first two and one-third innings, took the loss.

Greensboro has won two out of three in the series, which concludes with a 4 p.m. game Sunday.

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