Greeneville got three perfect innings from Jordan Lyles and then the game was suspended by rain so it will be completed tonight.
Tri Cities’ bats have awakened in a big way. The cranked three homers and 20 hits in their 17-9 win. They did commit 3 errors in the game. They are averaging 2 errors a game so far this season. Danny Meier, T J Steele and Phil Disher went deep. Steele had 5 hits on the night and Meier had 5 RBI.
Lexington is the hottest team in the Sally League right now. They hit 4 homers to trounce Hagerstown 12-4 last night. Brian Pellegrini, Eric Taylor, Max Sapp & Kyle Miller hit the dingers. The Legends have won 11 of their last 13.
Salem lost their game 7-2. The most exciting element of the game may have been Jim Pankovits argument with umpire Dave Soucy. In the 3rd inning, Pankovits left the dug out to challenge a call that a Kinston outfielder had trapped a ball that resulted in a Salem runner being doubled off, even though Pankovits thought the runner had tagged up anyway. That wasn’t the end of things.
Two innings later, Pankovits was in the dugout when plate umpire Chris Segal appealed to Soucy to ask if Kinston catcher Carlos Santana had swung at a pitch. Soucy said no, and whatever Pankovits said got him tossed from the game. Pankovits then returned to the field for an encore discussion with Soucy, reprising the theme of the fly ball-double play, even turning his cap around backwards to get even closer for the face-to-face meeting and turning a 360-degree spin move worthy of a sack-minded defensive lineman when Segal tried to block for Soucy.
“I didn’t think he caught it and I thought he tagged,” Pankovits said plainly after the game. “I certainly didn’t go out there to talk about a checked swing.
“It’s just a shame that these guys [the umpires] aren’t up to the quality of the level of play. I’m tired of it.”
Corpus Christi got two home runs from Brian Bogusevic and six good innings from Polin Trinindad to win 8-5.
Round Rock lost 6-0 in a rain shortened game. The Express only had 2 hits in the 6 inning affair.