Braves Cruise To 6-1 Series Opening Win Over Pensacola

June 8, 2013

The Mississippi Braves scored three unearned runs in the bottom of the fourth, which seemed to be the knockout punch in the Blue Wahoos 6-1 loss to the Braves on Friday night at Trustmark Park.

Blue Wahoos starter Tim Crabbe retired the first six batters he faced to open the game, but allowed a leadoff triple in the third which led to the Braves first run of the game. In the fourth, the flood gates open which started with a fielding error on shortstop Devin Lohman. The Braves used four singles in the inning on top of the error to score three runs and open a 4-0 lead against Pensacola. Because of the error, all three runs were unearned against Crabbe.

Pensacola rallied in the top of the fifth, stringing together three straight two-out singles by Luis Durango, Ryan LaMarre and Travis Mattair to plate their only run of the game. The Braves quickly answered with another run in the bottom of the fifth when Dan Brewer doubled home Kyle Russell from second. The Blue Wahoos only collected two singles over the final four innings of the game while Mississippi plated an insurance run in the sixth against Wilkin De La Rosa.

Crabbe (L, 2-6) suffered the loss for the Blue Wahoos after giving up five runs, two earned, on eight hits with four strikeouts over five innings. Cody Martin (W, 3-3) earned the win for the Braves. He allowed the Wahoos only run over five innings. He surrendered seven hits, walked two and struck out five.

Offensively, Durango was a bright spot with a 3-for-4 game and the Wahoos only run scored. LaMarre added a multi-hit game with a 2-for-4 night.

The Blue Wahoos and Mississippi Braves will square off in the second game of five Saturday night at 6:00 p.m. LHP Ryan Dennick (2-6, 3.41) gets the start for Pensacola against Mississippi’s RHP Mitch Atkins (0-0, 0.00).

story by Kevin Burke


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