Wahoos Drops Second In A Row To Jacksonville

September 2, 2017

The Pensacola Blue Wahoos lost its second straight game to the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, 6-3, Friday at the Baseball Ground of Jacksonville.

Pensacola scored first in the second inning when Blue Wahoos center fielder Jonathan Reynoso scored on a wild pitch. The team wouldn’t score again until the eighth inning when they trailed Jacksonville, 6-1.

Jacksonville starter Matt Tomshaw shut down the Pensacola lineup after that. Tomshaw worked seven innings, allowed just three hits, one unearned run, walked one and struck out seven. He improved to 13-6 with a 3.48 ERA. The 28-year-old lefty tied for the Southern League lead in wins.

Meanwhile, Jacksonville scored two runs in the third inning to take a 2-1 lead. Austin Dean crushed a solo homer, his fourth of the year, to left center field. Then Taylor Ard singled in Dustin Geiger to put Jacksonville on top for good.

The Jumbo Shrimp tacked on another run to go ahead, 3-1, in the sixth inning when Kyle Barrett hit a line drive single to center field that drove in Alex Yarbrough.

Geiger made it, 6-1, when he launched his fifth homer to left field with Dean and KC Serna on base.

Pensacola scored in the eighth inning when Shed Long singled in Blake Trahan to trail Jacksonville, 6-2. It also scored a run in the ninth when Josh VanMeter hit a sacrifice fly to left field to scored Reynoso.

The Blue Wahoos fell to 31-36 in the second half, while the second half champion Jumbo Shrimp improved to 39-28. The two teams meet again Sept. 6 in the Southern Division playoffs at Blue Wahoos Stadium.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News, Sports, TOP sports