
Bowie earns split with 7-4 win over Richmond
The Bowie Baysox (37-38) jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, dropping the Richmond Flying Squirrels (38-39), 7-4, in front of 4,970 at The Diamond on Wednesday afternoon.

The Bowie Baysox (37-38) jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, dropping the Richmond Flying Squirrels (38-39), 7-4, in front of 4,970 at The Diamond on Wednesday afternoon.

The Bowie Baysox (36-38) blanked the Richmond Flying Squirrels (38-38), 1-0, in game one of a doubleheader on Tuesday night at The Diamond. However, the Richmond bats awoke in the second game, and the Squirrels scored a, 7-6, win to split the twin-bill. With the split, the Squirrels will have the chance to win the four-game series on Wednesday afternoon.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels (37-37) cruised behind right-hander Taylor Rogers to a commanding 8-0 victory over the Bowie Baysox (35-37) in front of 4,163 on Monday night at The Diamond. It marked the league-leading eighth shutout of the season for the Squirrels.

The Reading Fightin Phils (32-42) emphatically claimed a three-game series from the Richmond Flying Squirrels (36-37), taking the finale, 14-6, on Sunday afternoon at FirstEnergy Stadium. The Fightins pounded out 17 hits against six different Squirrels hurlers.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels (36-36) built an early lead and then held off the Reading Fightins (31-42), 6-5, at FirstEnergy Stadium on Saturday night. The Squirrels snapped a three-game skid with the win, and set up a rubber-game situation in game three on Sunday.

The Reading Fightin Phils (31-41) tracked down the Richmond Flying Squirrels (35-36) and earned a series-opening, 5-3, victory at FirstEnergy Stadium on Friday night. The Squirrels have now lost 10 of their last 11 games including four straight to the last place Fightins.

The Binghamton Mets (44-27) earned a series win over the reeling Richmond Flying Squirrels (35-35), claiming a, 4-3, victory in front of 7,081 at The Diamond on Thursday night.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels (35-34) stopped their franchise record seven-game losing streak with a walk-off, 3-2, win over the Binghamton Mets (43-27) in the first game of a doubleheader at The Diamond on Tuesday night. However, the B-Mets bounced back with an, 8-1, victory in the nightcap to split the evening.

The Reading Fightins (28-39) completed a three-game sweep of the Richmond Flying Squirrels (34-33) with a 5-4 victory in front of 8,040 at The Diamond on Sunday afternoon.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels (34-32) first lost the lead, and eventually their sixth straight ballgame, 3-1, to the Reading Fightins (27-39) in front of a sellout crowd of 9,560 at The Diamond on Saturday night.
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