SL1 Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp

Suns Stifled By Smokies Again In Saturday's 5-0 Loss

Published on June 7, 2014 under Southern League (SL1)
Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp News Release


JACKSONVILLE, FL - Dae-Eun Rhee was brilliant in his seven shutout innings as the Tennessee Smokies (30-32) made it back-to-back shutouts of the Jacksonville Suns (32-31), with Tennessee emerging with a 5-0 victory on Saturday at Bragan Field.

Dae-Eun Rhee (W, 3-3) baffled Suns hitters over seven shutout innings, spreading out five hits over the course of his outing on Saturday. Rhee's seven innings ties a season-high and is his first scoreless outing on the 2014 season.

Jeff Lorick (H, 5) and Arodys Vizcaino each retired the side in order in the eighth and ninth innings respectively to close out Saturday's game.

Jay Rogers (L, 1-2) took the loss for Jacksonville, allowing two runs (both earned) on three hits in five innings of work. The righty didn't walk anybody and finished with two strikeouts, with both runs he allowed coming on a fourth inning home run by Charlie Cutler.

Matt Montgomery allowed one unearned run on one hits in three solid innings of relief, with Frankie Reed giving up two runs (both earned) on three hits in his Southern League debut.

The Smokies broke the scoreless tie in the top of the fourth, with Charlie Cutler (HR, 2) belting a two-run homer to right to put Tennessee on top 2-0.

The lead grew to 3-0 in favor of Tennessee in the top of the sixth inning, when John Andreoli scored on Cutler's RBI groundout.

The Smokies grabbed two more runs in the ninth to cap off Saturday's offensive output. Kris Bryant (HR, 20) drilled his Southern League-leading 20th home run of the year to left to lead off the inning and Tennessee scored their final run when Cutler came in to score on Jae-Hoon Ha's sacrifice fly to center.

The Suns have now been shut out in back-to-back games for the first time this season and have not scored in 20 consecutive innings.

The Suns and Smokies will be back at it on Sunday, with first pitch set for 3:05 p.m. ET at Bragan Field. The Suns will start the left-hander Justin Nicolino (5-2, 3.23), with the Smokies set to throw out righty Matt Loosen (3-2, 5.01) for Sunday's fourth game of the series.

Suns fans can listen to Sunday's game on the Suns Baseball Network, 94.1 WSOS-FM or through www.jaxsuns.com, MiLB.com or the Suns iPhone or Android app, beginning at 2:50 p.m. ET with the Memorial Hospital Suns Pregame Show on Suns Sunday.

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