Bradley powers Salem
Jackie Bradley Jr. delivered hits in each of his first five at-bats, pacing Salem’s 16-hit barrage in Saturday’s 9-4 triumph over Myrtle Beach at TicketReturn.Com Field.
Bradley finished 5-for-6 and drove in three runs as the Sox moved within a game of the first-place Winston-Salem Dash. At 19-14, Salem is five games above .500 for the first time all season. Read more
Salem wins in 14
Matt Barnes struck out eight to increase his minor league lead in punchouts, but the Salem Sox bullpen did the heavy lifting, refusing to allow an earned run over its special eight-inning performance on Friday night in Myrtle Beach.
The Sox punched two across in the top of the 14th inning, breaking a three-all stalemate and prevailing 5-3 at TicketReturn.Com Field in the series opener. Brandon Jacobs sprinted first to third on Xander Bogaerts’ single, racing home when the errant toss skipped away from Pelicans third baseman Christian Villanueva. With the error charged to left fielder Jared Hoying, Jacobs scored the first run since the seventh inning and crawled the Sox to a 4-3 edge. One batter later, Christian Vazquez pounded an RBI single off Zach DeVore to add an insurance tally, and Salem’s righthanded relievers did the rest. Read more
Fielder’s choice walkoff lifts Lynchburg
The Hillcats snapped their three game losing streak in walk-off fashion. Not in the way you would suspect. An RBI fielder’s choice was the final play as new Hillcat Tim Smith becomes a hero in the 4-3 victory.
The Hillcats were off to a terrible start on the 4th Annual Autism Awareness Night at Lynchburg City Stadium. The game started with a pop bunt that fell between starter Dimasther Delgado and catcher Braeden Schlehuber. Rushing the throw with Teodoro Martinez running, Schlehuber air mailed it over Chris Garcia’s head at first base. Martinez recognized the mistake and took second. Jared Hoying was next to the plate. He lined a hot shot down the third base side that was deflected by Edward Salcedo. Martinez broke for third and Salcedo tried to regroup and throw an off-balance throw to shortstop Nick Ahmed, who was cover the bag. The throw was low and went into left field, Martinez headed home and Hoying took second. Delgado settled down and retired the next three batters to escape the inning trailing 1-0. Read more
Myrtle Beach jumps out early, holds on to top Lynchburg
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans started the game off on fire with five consecutive hits to start the game. The four-run first inning was too much for the Hillcats offense to over come in the 7-3 loss in the series opener. Pelicans lefty, Roman Mendez, was solid striking out five through 6.0 innings. One of his sole mistakes was a first inning home run by Nick Ahmed.
It was a rough start from the very beginning for the Hillcats and Gus Schlosser. The first five batters he faced reached on hits. Teodoro Martinez led off the game with an infield single, Jared Hoying followed with an RBI double scoring Martinez, Christian Villanueva slapped an RBI single the opposite way that scored Hoying. Thomas Telis added a single that advanced Villanueva to second. The final hit was off the bat of Brett Nicholas. His two RBI double was an line shot down the left field line that went to the corner. Both Villanueva and Telis were able to cruise home to make the score 4-0 in the top of the first. Read more
Salem tops Pelicans, 3-1
Manny Rivera delivered Salem’s first quality start of the season, and three sacrifice flies produced all the offense the Red Sox needed in Sunday afternoon’s 3-1 triumph over the Myrtle Beach Pelicans at LewisGale Field.
Jackie Bradley Jr. drove in a pair and key doubles from Michael Almanzar and Felix Sanchez—the eight and nine hitters, respectively—helped the Sox muster enough scoring to support Rivera and reliever Marco Duarte, who dealt three scoreless out of the pen to earn the save and preserve the win. Read more
Salem survives Myrtle Beach comebacks, prevails 8-6
Wearing their formal tuxedo jersey tops, the Salem Sox surged to an early 3-0 lead and withstood Myrtle Beach’s numerous comeback bids in an 8-6 Saturday night triumph at LewisGale Field.
Three different Red Sox hitters drove in multiple runs, including shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who launched his first Advanced-A home run in the sixth inning. Starter Miguel Celestino earned the victory with five innings of solid pitching, permitting just two runs on six hits. Read more
Salem drops home opener
Salem jumped out to its largest lead of the season in support of major league lefty Rich Hill, but Myrtle Beach roared back against Drake Britton and defeated the Sox 8-6 on Friday evening at LewisGale Field.
The Sox scored twice in the first and twice more in the second off Pelicans starter Roman Mendez, but the Birds bullpen stabilized the Sox’ hot offense and Myrtle scored eight of the final ten runs to take the series opener. Read more
