SAL1 Rome Emperors

Tourists Top Braves

Published on April 11, 2015 under South Atlantic League (SAL1)
Rome Emperors News Release


Rome, GA - The Asheville Tourists defeated the Rome Braves 5-3 Saturday night to win the third game of a four game set at State Mutual Stadium before a near capacity crowd of 4,768.

Rome's Ricardo Sanchez had a rough first inning allowing a run to score on a balk as Asheville took a 1-0 lead. The Tourists add two more runs in the top of the third on an RBI triple by Emerson Jimenez and a fielding error by Jordan Edgerton allowing the second run to cross the plate. In the fourth, Asheville made it a 4-0 score on a sacrifice fly RBI by Luis Jean.

The Braves cracked the scoreboard in the bottom of the inning on a run scoring double by Edgerton and Codey McElroy added an RBI single to make it a 4-2 game. The Tourists added a run in the sixth and Rome a run in the seventh for the 5-3 final.

Asheville's Logan Sawyer (1-0) is credited with the win and Sanchez (0-1) the loss. Jared McCrummen notches his first save.

The Braves and Asheville play again tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock with Rome looking to salvage the final game of the series. For information contact the Rome Braves at 706-378-5144 or log onto www.romebraves.com.

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