Tides Fall Short in Series Opener vs. Red Sox
July 12, 2022 - International League (IL)
Norfolk Tides News Release
NORFOLK, Va. --- The Norfolk Tides (41-44) began this six-game series against the Worcester Red Sox (45-40) with a 2-1 defeat on Tuesday night at Harbor Park, in the first ever meeting between the two clubs.
DL Hall turned in another solid start, in which he worked 5.2 innings, allowed one run, unearned, struck out eight batters and walked four. The lone run was scored by Devlin Granberg on a wild pitch, after the inning was extended due to an error by the Tides.
Chris Murphy dominated the Norfolk offense on the mound for Worcester, tossing 7.0 shutout innings and holding the Tides to just two hits.
Gunnar Henderson, who was just one of the three Tides to have a hit in the game, gave the home team one their best scoring chances of contest with a lead-off triple in the fourth, but was left stranded on third.
Rylan Bannon attempted to spark a late rally by blasting a 432-foot home run to center, his 11th of the year, with two outs in the ninth, but Richie Martin flew out to left to end the game.
The two teams will be back in action tomorrow night, with the Tides set to start RHP Mike Baumann (0-5, 5.47) with the Red Sox yet to announce their starting pitcher. First pitch is slated for 6:35 p.m.
POSTGAME NOTES
HALL MONITOR: DL Hall came just one out away from turning in back-to-back quality starts, which would have been the first time that he performed that feat since doing so on July 26 - Aug. 1, 2019, while pitching for Advanced-A Frederick...he struck out eight batters and now has tallied 30 punchouts in his last 15.2 innings of work...Hall allowed one unearned run and has now not allowed an earned run in his last 15.2 frames, lowering his sesaon ERA from 4.68 to 3.83 during that span...he leads the International League this month with 30 strikeouts.
OUCH!: Terrin Vavra was hit by a pitch to lead off the game tonight and Tides batters have now been hit 62 times this season...they are one away from matching the franchise record of 63, which was set last season, and are on pace to be hit 109 times this campaign, which would obliterate the franchise record.
TERRIN UP THE BASEPATHS: After being hit by a pitch tonight, Terrin Vavra has now reached base in 17-consecutive games, the fourth-longest active streak in the International League...it is also the second-longest streak by a Tides batter this season, which he set by reaching in 18-straight games from April 8 - June 16.
RECEDING TIDES: The Tides could push just one run across the plate in tonight's game and have now only scored 32 runs though the first 10 games in July...the Norfolk offense is batting just .202 (64-for-107) this month as well...despite the offensive struggles, the Tides pitching staff has posted a 2.79 ERA and has held opposing batters to a .217 average (69-for-318).
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