Wahoos Beat Mississippi

June 26, 2015

In the first game to start the second half of the Southern League season, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos scored nine runs on 14 hits.

Pensacola hit .240 in the first half of the season—the lowest in the league—but had four batters with multi-hit games Thursday in the Blue Wahoos, 9-3, victory over the Mississippi Braves.

Blue Wahoos right fielder Jesse Winker lead the way with a 2-5 night, including a two-run homer and scoring two runs. Lead-off batter Zach Vincej also went 2-5 and scored a run, while left fielder Sean Buckley went 3-5 and center fielder Beau Amaral was 2-4 and scored.

Pensacola went ahead, 6-0, scoring two runs in the second, third and fourth innings.

Blue Wahoos pitcher Wandy Peralta tripled in catcher Yovan Gonzalez and Amaral to put Pensacola up, 2-0, in the second.

In the third, first baseman Marquez Smith hit a two-run home run to left center that also scored third baseman Seth Mejias-Brean that gave Pensacola a 4-0 lead. It was Smith’s fourth homer in June. The 30-year-old Smith has driven in 10 runs, while hitting .333 and earning a .424 on-base percentage this month.

Then in the fourth, Winker crushed his fourth homer of the season, a two-run dinger to right center that brought in Vincej and put the Blue Wahoos on top, 6-0.

Mississippi cut the lead in the fifth inning to 6-3. Braves catcher Matt Kennelly smacked a double to centerfield that scored shortstop Emerson Landoni. Pinch hitter David Rohm then hit a soft liner to center that drove in second baseman Levi Hyams. Kennelly then ended up scoring when center fielder Matt Lipka grounded into a double play that cut Pensacola’s lead to 6-3.

Blue Wahoos pinch hitter Juan Silva then doubled with two outs. He stole third, his sixth of the season, and Kennelly made a throwing error on the play to score Silva, 7-3, in the eighth inning.

In the ninth, Pensacola added two more runs when Mejias-Brean tripled in Winker for an 8-3 lead. Then Blue Wahoos second baseman Juan Perez singled to left to drive in Mejias-Brean to go up, 9-3.

Peralta improved to 3-6 on the season with a 4.85 ERA. In five innings of work, he allowed  three earned runs on eight hits and three walks.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News, Sports