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RiverDogs Win High-Scoring Affair with Shorebirds

May 19, 2023 - Carolina League (CarL)
Delmarva Shorebirds News Release


CHARLESTON, SC: The Delmarva Shorebirds (18-16) were unable to overcome a pair of deficits to the Charleston RiverDogs (15-21) on a windy night at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Ballpark as the Tampa Bay Rays' affiliate took game three, 11-7.

For the second straight night, the Shorebirds faced an early deficit after an inning as the RiverDogs jumped ahead with five runs in the first, starting with a single by Xavier Isaac that scored two runs, followed by a three-run homer by Kamren James to put Delmarva in an early 5-0 hole.

But the Shorebirds would use the long ball themselves to get back into it with Angel Tejada going yard in the second for his first home run of the season to make it a 5-1 game.

In the fourth, Luis Gonzalez scored Stiven Acevedo on a groundout in the infield, and then Brayan Herandez evened the game with a three-run homer to right-center, tying things up at five apiece.

The RiverDogs, however, would get all four of those runs back on home runs by Dominic Keegan and Xavier Isaac. Odalys Peguero then doubled home Jhon Diaz to push the Charleston lead back to four at 9-5.

Delmarva would cut that deficit in half in the fifth as Adam Crampton and Angel Tejada each registered RBI singles to get the Shorebirds within two at 9-7.

Charleston responded with one run in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by Dominic Keegan to give the RiverDogs a field goal advantage at 10-7.

The pitching settled things down for both sides for the remainder of the game as there was only one more run scored for the rest of the night and it came from Charleston in the eighth on an RBI double by Odalys Peguero to push the lead back to four at 11-7 for the RiverDogs, and they'd hold on to win by that score to regain the edge in the series.

Juan Rodriguez (1-0) earned the win for Charleston with Bradley Brehmer (2-1) taking the loss for Delmarva.

Angel Tejada and Brayan Hernandez each slugged their first home run of the series on Thursday with Tejada picking up another RBI in the fifth to give him his first multi-RBI game of the season. Eight of the nine starters for the Shorebirds on Thursday reached base with seven of them providing at least one hit.

Delmarva will look to even the series once again on Friday night as Edgar Portes gets the ball and he'll face Marcus Johnson for the RiverDogs with first pitch at 7:05 p.m.

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