Saturday, July 14, 2018

Savannah Bananas 5 Lexington County Blowfish 1

The Savannah Bananas(23-10) played the Lexington County Blowfish(11-20) Friday evening at Grayson Stadium in front of a sold out crowd 4,177. (51’st straight sellout).
Savannah won 5 to 1 with strong pitching allowing the Blowfish 1 run on 3 hits.
Lexington scored their run in the 2nd inning when Carson McCurdy,1b(Mount Olive) tripled and scored when catcher Christian Hamel(Shepherd) reached base on an error by the second baseman.
Leading off the 2nd inning for Savannah, Jake Sullivan,dh(South Florida) singled, advanced to  second on a wild pitch and scored on base hit by catcher Bill LeRoy(North Georgia).
The Bananas scored a run in the 4th inning when the lead off hitter Cade Marlowe,lf(West Georgia) walked,stole second base, reached third on a throwing error by the pitcher  and scored on a wild pitch.
Savannah scored 2 runs in the 6th inning and scored their final run in the 8th inning when Marlowe singled, advanced to third on a 2 base wild pitch,  scored on a sac fly.
Starting Savannah pitcher, Austin Temple(Jacksonville) pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowed 1 run on 3 hits, 2BB and had 3 strike outs.
Bananas relievers: Jordan Merrit(Citadel) pitched 2 1/3 innings recorded  1BBand 2K’s. Tyler Follis(Louisiana Tech) pitched 1 inning and struck out 2 batters. Closer Hunter Phillips pitched the 9th inning and posted a strike out.

The Bananas had 6 hits for the game. LeRoy was 2-for-4. Marlowe and Sullivan each scored 2 runs.
The next Savannah home game is Tuesday(July 17th) against the Macon Bacon at Grayson Stadium.

                                                                     Austin Temple

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