
Blue Wahoos second baseman Brodie Greene(above)reached base three times and drove in a run in a 7-5 win over the Jacksonville Suns July 3, 2012 at the Baseball Grounds. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Wahoos
By Steve Kolbe
Blue Wahoos second baseman Brodie Greene(above)reached base three times and drove in a run in a 7-5 win over the Jacksonville Suns July 3, 2012 at the Baseball Grounds. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Wahoos
By Steve Kolbe
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Blue Wahoos starter Tony Cingrani (above) combined with reliever Justin Freeman on a two hitter in a 2-0 win over the Suns July 2, 2012 at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Wahoos
By Steve Kolbe
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Jeff Dominguez, Curt Smith, and Paul Gran each hit a home run in the Suns 10-4 win over the Pensacola Blue Wahoos at the Baseball Grounds. Photo Courtesy: Jacksonville Suns
By Steve Kolbe
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The Blue Wahoos scored the game-winning run with two outs in the 11th inning for a 3-2 victory over the Jacksonville Suns June 4, 2012 at Bayfront Stadium. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Wahoos
By Steve Kolbe
Game four of the series is Tuesday with the first pitch scheduled for 8:00 p.m. EST. For the Suns, LHP Graham Taylor (3-4, 4.41) will take the mound. In his last start, Taylor allowed two runs on six hits in a win over Mobile. The Blue Wahoos will look to even the series with RHP Daniel Corcino (2-3, 3.79) on the hill.
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Jacksonville and Pensacola combined for 24 hits, 23 of them singles, in the Suns 5-4 win June 3, 2012 at Bayfront stadium. Photo Courtesy: Jacksonville Suns
By Steve Kolbe
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The Jacksonville Suns scored seven unanswered runs in the final three innings to rally for a 9-6 win over the Blue Wahoos June 2, 2012 at Bayfront Stadium. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Whaoos
By Steve Kolbe
The Jacksonville Suns hammered out a season-high 14 hits, and used a late inning rally for a 9-6 win over the Blue Wahoos in Pensacola on Saturday night. The Suns took sole possession of third place in the South Division with the victory.
The Suns took the lead in the first inning against Blue Wahoos starter Tim Crabbe. Chris Gutierrez walked to start the game for the second straight night, and German Duran doubled off the left field wall to put runners on second and third with no outs. Kyle Jensen then gave the Suns a 1-0 lead with a ground ball to the right side of the infield for his 30th RBI of the season. The Suns improved to 21-5 when scoring the first run of the game. The Blue Wahoos fell to 4-19 when they allow the first run.
German Duran increased the Suns lead in the third inning with his second home run of the season, a solo blast to left field for a 2-0 advantage. Duran finished the game 3-for-5 and a triple shy of the cycle. He drove in two runs and scored three times.
Suns starter Omar Poveda allowed just three hits in the first four innings, but struggled in the fifth with the first five Pensacola batters in the inning reaching base. Pensacola sent 10 men to the plate in the inning and scored six times. Pinch hitter Stephen Hunt singled and Ryan LaMarre walked to start the rally. Didi Gregorius hit a ball sharply to first that went under the glove of German Duran and into right field, with Hunt scoring on the error to put the Blue Wahoos on the board. Brodie Greene gave Pensacola a 3-2 lead when he drove in two runs with a single to center, with LaMarre and Gregorius crossing the plate. David Vidal drove in a run with a single to increase the lead to 4-2. The Blue Wahoos used the suicide squeeze with Josh Fellhauer racing home from third, and a sacrifice fly by Mark Fleury to make the score 6-2. The Suns have allowed six runs in an inning three times this season.
The Suns started their comeback in the seventh when Donnie Webb doubled to lead off the inning. With two outs, German Duran singled to right to drive in his second run of the night to cut the lead to 6-3. Shawn Bowman followed with double, with Duran scrambling all the way from first and it was 6-4 Blue Wahoos.
In the eighth, the Suns put together the big inning against reliever Justin Freeman sending eight men to the plate and scoring four runs on five hits. Bowman drove in two runs with his third double of the game. Webb and Gutierrez each had RBI singles and the Suns grabbed an 8-6 lead.
Jacksonville tacked on one more in the ninth when Jeff Dominguez doubled and scored on Webb’s sacrifice fly. German Duran, Shawn Bowman, and Jake Jefferies each finished with three hits. Bowman’s three doubles tied Jake Smolinski and Paul Gran for the most in a game this season.
The Suns improved to 10-6 against the Blue Wahoos this season. Jacksonville has won five of the six games played at Bay Front Stadium. The Suns have won three of their last four games while the Blue Wahoos have lost three straight and nine of the last 13 games.
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Blue Wahoos starting pitcher Tim Crabbe gave up just two hits in six scoreless innings and struck out six against the Suns to earn his second win of the season. Photo Courtesy: Jacksonville Suns
By Steve Kolbe
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Suns win their season-high fourth straight game to close out series in Pensacola. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Wahoos
By Steve Kolbe
The Jacksonville Suns won their season-high fourth straight game with a 4-3 victory over the Blue Wahoos on Thursday night. The Suns won four of the five games in their first-ever trip to Pensacola.
The Suns jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning against the Wahoos. Pensacola starter J.C. Sulbaran didn’t have his control early on. He hit Paul Gran in the back with the first pitch of the game, followed by singles from Chris Gutierrez and Shawn Bowman to load the bases with no outs. Kyle Jensen drove in a run with a ground out, and the second run scored on a throwing error by second baseman Brodie Greene. The Suns have now scored the first run in eight of their last 10 games and are 8-1 this season when crossing the plate before their opponent. Last season Jacksonville finished 47-23 when they scored the game’s first run..
Pensacola scored a run in the bottom of the inning to cut the lead into the lead to make it 2-1 when Didi Gregorius extended his hit streak to eight games with a leadoff single. He was driven in by a sacrifice fly by Henry Rodriguez. The leadoff batter for the Blue Wahoos reached base six times in the game and came in to score all three of their runs on the night.
The Blue Wahoos tied the game 2-2 in the bottom of the second against Suns starter Omar Poveda. Brodie Greene led off with a single, and scored when Yordanys Perez doubled to right field to drive in his fifth run of the season. Perez was thrown out at third trying to stretch play into a triple.
In the top of the third, Kyle Skipworth sent a ball sailing to the beach. He hit a towering solo home run that went over the center field lawn and seats to give the Suns a 3-2 lead. It was estimated that the home run went about 430 feet. It was Skipworth’s third homer of the year and second in as many nights. However, it’s the first home run that the Sun’s catcher has ever hit into a bay. Ryan Patterson added solo home run in the fourth and the Suns had doubled the lead to 4-2. Skipworth now has a five game hitting streak. Patterson now has two home runs this year.
The Wahoos inched closer by scoring a single run in the bottom of the fourth to make it 4-3. Joel Guzman lined a single into center and took second on a wild pitch by Poveda. Mark Fleury then drove him in with a single. Pensacola would threaten in the eighth and ninth but came away empty. In the game, the Blue Wahoos had at least one runner on base in every inning except the sixth.
After being forced to leave his last start after just three innings when he was hit in the ankle by a line drive, Omar Poveda earned his second win of the season. He pitched five innings, allowing eight hits and three runs. The losing pitcher was J.C. Sulbaran. He pitched six innings and allowed four runs while striking out 11. Sulbaran recorded 155 strikeouts during the 2011 season with Bakersfield, a total that was fourth-most in the Reds system. Bobby Bramhall and Josh Schmidt combined to pitch three scoreless innings while striking out four Wahoos hitters. With his eighth appearance, Schmidt is now tied for the league lead among pitchers. A.J. Ramos pitched the ninth for his first save of the year. He’s given up just one hit to the 26 batters that he has faced this season.
Jacksonville travels to Mobile for the first of a five game series against the defending Southern League Champions starting Friday night
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