Barons Beat The Wahoos

August 10, 2015

Pensacola Blue Wahoos pitcher Tim Adleman showed no signs of the right elbow injury that placed him on the disabled list July 30 and caused him to miss one start.

The lanky right-hander struck out a season-high eight Birmingham Barons batters over six innings of work on national television. He now has 95 strikeouts in 119.2 innings of work for the Blue Wahoos.

However, the Barons scored the winning run in the eighth to pull out a 3-2 victory in front of 5,038 fans, which was the 21st sellout this season at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium.

The Wahoos Life was televised across the nation by the American Sports Network. Sunday’s game was one of 15 Minor League Baseball games that will air live this year and was the only Southern League game selected. Fans and staff pinked out the stadium with thousands wearing pink Blue Wahoos t-shirts provided by Visit Florida.

Pensacola fell to 25-18 (50-61) in the second half of the South Division in the Southern League. Birmingham remains on top of the North at 27-15 (60-51).

The Barons went ahead, 3-2, in the eighth inning when third baseman Nicky Delmonico doubled and scored on first baseman Danny Hayes’ smash to Blue Wahoos second baseman Alex Blandino, who was playing in on the grass. Blandino’s throw to home was wide left.

Pensacola manager Pat Kelly said the Blue Wahoos were hurt when Birmingham snuffed out the club’s bases-loaded, no-out rally in the fifth inning. Birmingham reliever Tim Crabbe, who improved to 2-1, struck out Pensacola right fielder Juan Duran and then got third baseman Seth Mejias-Brean to ground out into a double play to end the scoring threat.

“We had a good opportunity with the bases loaded and nobody out,” Kelly said. “That was very huge.”

Pensacola had tied the game, 2-2, in the fourth inning when DH Sean Buckley lined a single to center to score Mejias-Brean, who led off the inning with a double past the third baseman. Buckley then scored on a chopper by shortstop Zach Vincej down the third base line.

Meanwhile, Adleman had a strong start and could have gotten out of the two-run first inning but Blandino missed the tag on Birmingham speedster Tim Anderson in a run down. Anderson then ended up scoring on Hayes’ ground ball single to right field. Second baseman Joey DeMichele lined a single to left that scored center fielder Jacob May and Birmingham led, 2-0.

Birmingham is now 46-5 when they score first.

In his six innings, Adleman allowed six hits and a walk and lowered his ERA to 2.41.

“I thought Timmy pitched great,” Kelly said. “If we don’t screw up that run down in the first inning, they don’t score off him. They have a tough lineup.”

But Birmingham’s Anderson, the Chicago White Sox top prospect, went 3-4 with a double and stole his Southern League-leading 45th base in the seventh inning.

The Pensacola Blue Wahoos play the fourth game of a five-game series at 6:35 p.m. Monday against the Chicago White Sox Double-A affiliate the Birmingham Barons.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News