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Wahoos, Suns Series Tied
June 4, 2014
For much of the game, Pensacola Blue Wahoos right-hander Mikey O’Brien and Jacksonville Suns Justin Nicolino treated fans to a pitching duel.However, the game ended in heartbreak again for the Wahoos, who lost 3-2, Tuesday at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium in front of 3,954 fans. It was Pensacola’s 15th loss in one- run games this season.
“Definitely things have not been going our way to this point,” said Wahoos manager Delino DeShields, whose team has won eight games by one run. “We had a chance to tie the game. They kept fighting.”
After giving up an unearned run in the first inning, Wahoos O’Brien got in a groove, striking out four batters in a row at one point. He pitched five solid innings, giving up four hits, one walk and striking out six.
“I was attacking the zone,” O’Brien said. “Me and (catcher Chris) Berset were on the same page all night. He was calling a great game.”
Suns lefty Justin Nicolino, the Miami Marlins fourth ranked prospect by Baseball America, has had trouble with the Wahoos in his first two starts against them, giving up four runs in 4.2 innings on April 22 and five runs in 5.1 innings on May 19.
However, he mowed down the Wahoos lineup, starting the game by retiring the first nine batters and pitching to the minimum three batters in five of his first six innings. Nicolino allowed only two runs in seven innings on six hits and one walk.
“He pitched well tonight,” DeShields said. “That was one of his better outings that I’ve seen him pitch at this level.”
Jacksonville tied the five-game series at two games apiece when third baseman Alex Burg doubled to the gap in right center to drive in two runs in the eighth inning to put the Suns ahead for good, 3-2.
Pensacola had taken the lead, 2-1, in the seventh when Travis Mattair led off with a ground-rule double that bounced on one hop over the 400-foot sign in center field and Yorman Rodriguez hit a broken-bat single past the second baseman to score him.
by Tommy Thrall
Photos by Michael Spooneybarger/ Pensacola Blue Wahoos) for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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