SAL1 Asheville Tourists

Tourists routed by Drive

Published on August 29, 2008 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Asheville Tourists News Release


ASHEVILLE - One night after the Tourists racked up 16 hits, the Greenville Drive turned the trick. With 18 hits of their own tonight, the Drive romped to a 16-0 stomping of the Asheville Tourists on Friday night.

The hits and runs came early and often for the Drive. Greenville scored in every inning but the third and ninth. After an unearned run in the first, The Drive sent 11 hitters to the plate in the second and picked up six runs off Shane Lindsay. Lindsay (1-2) in two innings of work allowed seven runs, though only six were earned, on nine hits and three walks with three strikeouts. With a commanding 7-0 lead after two innings, Terumasa Matsuo settled in and pitched a gem against a Tourists team that had clobbered him in two previous outings. Matsuo (7-5) tossed seven scoreless innings on two hits with just a walk and eight strikeouts. The Tourists did not get a runner to second base until the eighth inning, when Jeffrey Cunningham made it there on back-to-back singles.

After single runs in the fourth and fifth, Greenville exploded for three in both the sixth and the eighth and put together one more in the ninth. Michael Almanzar led the way for the Drive with a double as part of a 4-6 night. David Mailman had three hits - a home run and a pair of doubles - while Carlos Fernandez, David Marks, Manny Arambarris, Will Vazquez and Thomas DiBenedetto also had multi-hit games for the Drive. Both Marks hits were home runs against Cory Riordan, who fired six innings in his first relief outing of the season.

The Tourists will open up a three-game series on Saturday with the Augusta Greenjackets, the team they'll meet in the Southern Divisional Playoffs, beginning Wednesday September 3rd. Bruce Billings (9-11, 4.09) will get the ball for the Tourists and will face lefty Craig Clark. The first 1,000 fans through the gates will receive Tourists seat cushions on the season's final premium giveaway night. First pitch is 7:05 p.m. and the game can also be heard on the Tourists flagship station WRES-FM, 100.7.

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