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Grzelakowski Delivers Walk-Off Winner In 1-0 Wahoos Victory Over Mobile
April 25, 2019
Taylor Grzelakowski entered tonight’s game scuffling through a 3-for-30 stretch at the plate and left the hero, delivering a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth to break a 0-0 tie and give the Blue Wahoos a 1-0 win over the Mobile BayBears.
For the second straight night, both team’s received excellent starting pitching. Griffin Jax took the ball for the Wahoos, entering the game with the best ERA in the league, and left with an even lower ERA. He threw 5.1 shutout innings, allowing just three hits while striking out four and walking none, lowering his 0.54 ERA to 0.41.
Mobile countered with Adrian De Horta, who was even better, throwing 5.0 one-hit innings and striking out seven.
For all that has been written about the Blue Wahoos starting rotation’s success this season, their bullpen has been equally good, entering play tonight with a 1.59 ERA. Lefty Jovani Moran was the first out of the pen, relieving Jax with a runner on in the sixth. He threw 2.2 scoreless innings, striking out five.
With tonight’s performance, Moran now holds a 17.1 K/9 ratio, having struck out 19 batters in 10.0 innings.
Dusten Knight took over in the ninth inning and worked into and out of a jam, allowing a lead off single and walking a batter before stranding both runners.
In the bottom of the ninth, the Wahoos offense finally scored for the first time in two days. Caleb Hamilton led off the inning by drawing a walk from BayBears reliever Patrick Sandoval. Ernie De La Trinidad dropped down a sacrifice bunt to move Hamilton to second. After a ground out for the second out, Grzelakowski stepped to the plate and pulled a ground ball single past a diving Jahmai Jones at second base, scoring Hamilton from second and giving the Blue Wahoos their first walk-off win of the season.
The win improves the Blue Wahoos’ record to 14-6 on the year, the best record in the Southern League. Pensacola will pack their bags and head to Jackson to take on the Generals (11-7) tomorrow in a match up of the first place team in the North and South Divisions.
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