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Wahoos Beat Birmingham
September 2, 2016
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos have won six of its last seven games and are just 1.5 games behind the Mississippi Braves in the race for the second half title in the Southern League South Division.
After beating the Birmingham Barons, 11-8, Thursday at Regions Field there are just four games left in the season for Pensacola to try and overtake the Braves.
Mississippi also won Thursday and is 37-28 in the second half, while Pensacola, which won the first half to qualify for the playoffs, is 36-30.
Both Pensacola and Birmingham slugged 15 hits in Thursday’s game that featured 19 combined runs. Six of the Blue Wahoos nine hitters had multi-hit games.
Blue Wahoos catcher Chad Wallach led the way going 3-5 with two runs scored. DH Brandon Dixon also continued his hot streak going 2-5 with a triple, his first of the year, and a double. He scored twice and drove in a run, his 65th of the season, which leads Pensacola.
The offensive outburst started when Dixon tripled to leadoff the second inning and scored when Pensacola third baseman Taylor Sparks grounded out to shortstop to put the Blue Wahoos ahead, 1-0. Pensacola went up, 3-0, when centerfield Jeff Gelalich doubled with two outs to score both Pensacola first baseman Eric Jagielo and Wallach.
Birmingham shortstop Trey Michalczewski’s doubled to left field in the third inning to drive in right fielder Keenyn Walker to pull the Barons within, 3-1. Birmingham DH Eudy Pina then grounded out to shortstop to allow shortstop Joey DeMichele to make the score, 3-2.
In the fourth inning, Birmingham went ahead, 6-3, when centerfield Hunter Jones singled to right field to drive in third baseman Ryan Leonards to knot the score, 3-3. Birmingham went ahead, 6-3, when left fielder Courtney Hawkins hit a two-out, three-run homer to left field that also brought in Jones and Walker.
In the top of the fifth inning, Zach Vincej lined a single to center field to drive in both second baseman Alex Blandino and left fielder Phillip Ervin to pull Pensacola within, 6-5, of the Barons.
Pensacola finally took the lead for good, 10-6, when it scored five runs in the top of the sixth inning with two outs. Ervin singled to right field to drive in Wallach and tie the game, 6-6. Right fielder Sebastian Elizalde singled to right field to score Alex Blandino and put Pensacola ahead, 7-6. Dixon then doubled, his 23rd of the season, to left field to score Ervin and put the Blue Wahoos up, 8-6. Vincej singled to right field to score both Elizalde and Dixon for a 10-6 Pensacola lead.
Pensacola added an insurance run when Gelalich hit a line drive to right field for a solo homer, his second of the season, in the seventh inning to put the Blue Wahoos up, 11-6.
Birmingham did get the run back in the bottom of the seventh when right fielder Keon Barnum hit a solo shot to right center field to make it a 11-7 game in Pensacola’s favor.
Hawkins then hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth to score Jones for the final run of the game but the Barons still trailed Pensacola, 11-8.
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