SAL1 Delmarva Shorebirds

Shorebirds Drop Slugfest 13-11 to Suns

Published on May 17, 2012 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Delmarva Shorebirds News Release


Hagerstown, Md. - Despite connecting on a single game high four home runs, the Delmarva Shorebirds (18-21) dropped game one of the road trip 13-11 to the Hagerstown Suns (22-15) on Thursday night at Municipal Stadium. The 11 runs scored is the second highest total for Delmarva this season. The back-and-forth affair included five lead changes.

Four Shorebirds players had multiple hits including Jason Esposito, who went 3-for-5 with four runs-batted in.

The Shorebirds hit their first home run in seven games to take a 1-0 lead in the first. Nicky Delmonico blasted his third homer of the year over the right-center field wall.

The Suns evened the score in the bottom of the first when Cutter Dykstra hit a solo homer to lead off the inning. Shorebirds starter Zach Davies walked the next two batters. Later in the frame, Adrian Nieto and Brett Newsome hit back-to-back RBI singles to give the Suns a 3-1 lead. Caleb Ramsey added an RBI on a grounder towards the second base bag.

In the second, Brenden Webb clobbered his third homer of the season to right field to trim the deficit to 4-3.

The Suns added two runs in the second to build a 6-3 lead.

In the third, Kyle Hoppy, who was added to the roster before the game, launched his first professional home run over the right field wall to cut the deficit to 6-4.

Matt Skole delivered a sacrifice fly RBI in the fourth to extend the Suns lead to 7-4.

Suns reliever Christian Meza retired the first two batters of the fifth inning before walking three straight hitters to load the bases. Then, Jason Esposito hit a grand slam over the left field wall to give the Shorebirds an 8-7 lead. It was his first career home run.

In the bottom of the fifth, the see-saw battle continued as the Suns added two runs to build a 9-8 lead.

The Shorebirds grabbed the lead back in the sixth inning on run-scoring hits by Hoppy and Delmonico.

The Suns exploded for four runs in the seventh to take a 13-10 lead. Jason Martinson capped the inning with a two-run triple to the corner in left field.

The Shorebirds added a run in the eighth inning on a sacrifice fly by Delmonico to score Mychal Givens, which cut the deficit to 13-11. Delmonico finished with three RBIs.

Greg Holt earned the win in 2.1 innings of relief for Hagerstown while Jesse Beal was tagged with the loss. Beal surrendered four hits and five earned runs over two innings.

The Shorebirds and Suns play game two of the series on Monday night at 7:05 pm. LHP Eduardo Rodriguez is the scheduled starter.

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