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July 17, 2012 · 1:39 pm

Suns Edge Blue Wahoos

Jake Smolinski(left)walked three times in the Suns 2-1 win over the Blue Wahoos July 16, 2012 at Bayfront Stadium. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Wahoos

By Steve Kolbe

Klye Skipworth hit a solo home run in the sixth inning to lead the Jacksonville Suns past the Pensacola Blue Wahoos 2-1 on Monday night at Bayfront Stadium.

The Suns took the lead in the third inning against Blue Wahoos starter J.C. Sulbaran. After retiring the first eight batters of the game, Sulbaran surrendered a single to Suns pitcher Graham Taylor with two outs in the third. Jake Smolinski then walked, and Chris Gutierrez beat out an infield single to load the bases. Paul Gran walked on a full count to force in Taylor to give the Suns a 1-0 lead. Jacksonville improved to 35-14 when scoring the first run of the game.

Kyle Skipworth increased the lead to 2-0 when he led of the sixth inning by smashing his eighth home run of the season off of reliever Wilkin De La Rosa. Skipworth has hit four of his eight home runs off of Blue Wahoos pitching, with three of them at Bayfront Stadium. The Suns have hit 21 of their 62 round trippers this season off Blue Wahoos pitching, the most against any team.

Graham Taylor pitched six scoreless innings, allowing just three singles. The Suns went to the bullpen with Kyle Kaminska entering the game in the seventh. Pensacola first baseman Beau Mills greeted Kaminska with a solo home run to right field to cut the Suns lead to 2-1, but that would be all the offense the Wahoos could generate in the game. Kaminska has given up a long ball in the seventh inning in each of his last two outings.

The win was just the fourth this season for the Suns when they have been held to three runs or less (4-33), with two of the four wins against the Blue Wahoos.

The Suns collected just five hits in the game, and have a total of 19 in the first three games of the series. Chris Gutierrez finished 2-for-4, and pitcher Graham Taylor went 2-for-2 and scored a run. With a pair of singles, Taylor is the first Suns pitcher with a multi-hit game this season. Jake Smolinski and Paul Gran each had three of the Suns nine walks in the game.

Jacksonville is 15-11 overall this season against Pensacola, and 9-4 at Bayfront Stadium with one game left to play. A win in the series finale on Tuesday would give the Suns their fourth series win over the Blue Wahoos this season. Pensacola hasn’t lost two straight games in nearly a month (June 25 and 26).

Graham Taylor (5-8) snapped a four game road losing streak, winning for the first time since April 23. In his last two starts overall, Taylor has allowed just one run over 11 innings of work. Josh Schmidt pitched the eighth for the Suns, striking out two of the four batters he faced. A.J. Ramos entered the game in the ninth inning and retired the side in order, including a strike out of David Vidal to end the game. Ramos earned his 11th save of the season, and has a save in each of the Suns last five wins. J.C. Sulbaran (6-7) allowed one run on three hits in four and two-thirds innings. He entered the game second in strikeouts in the Southern League, with 33 of his 94 strikeouts against the Suns over four games. Sulbaran had just four strikeouts Monday night and also walked four batters.

The final game of the season between the the Suns and Blue Wahoos is Tuesday night, with the first pitch slated for 8:00 p.m. RHP Matthew Neil (1-5, 5.72) takes the hill for the Suns. He has lost his last five decisions. RHP Wirfin Obispo (1-0, 2.28) is scheduled to make his first start of the season from the Blue Wahoos.

Blue Wahoos Even Series With Suns

Blue Wahoos starter J.C. Sulbaran struck out 10 to lead Pensacola to a 9-2 win over Jacksonville June 5, 2012 at Bayfront Stadium. Photo Courtesy: Pensacola Blue Wahoos

By Steve Kolbe

After a brief weather delay, the Jacksonville Suns started slow and never recovered in a 9-2 loss to the Blue Wahoos on Tuesday night at Bayfront Stadium in Pensacola. The two teams are once again tied for third place in the South Division with identical 27-32 records.

The Blue Wahoos went right to work against Suns starter Graham Taylor in the first inning. For the fans who were late to their seats, they missed leadoff hitter Ryan LaMarre blast his second round-tripper of the season to put Pensacola in front 1-0. Didi Gregorius then doubled to left, and came around to score on Brodie Greene’s RBI single to give the Blue Wahoos a 2-0 lead. It’s the second straight game that Pensacola has scored two runs in the first inning.

Taylor settled down for the next two innings and was helped out by the double play ball, but he ran into more trouble in the home half of the fourth. Joel Guzman and David Vidal hit back-to-back singles to left field to start the inning. With one out, Andrew Means drove in both runners with a single, with Vidal scoring on an error, and the Blue Wahoos had doubled their lead to 4-0.

Pensacola catcher Chris Berset keep the rally going with another single to left to put runners on first and third with only one out. Blue Wahoos starting pitcher J.C. Sulbaran helped his own cause with a sacrifice bunt, with Means scoring on the play to make the score 5-0. The inning finally ended when LaMarre was thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double, but not before Berset crossed the plate to pad the lead to 6-0 in favor of Pensacola. In the inning, the Blue Wahoos scored four runs on five singles.

Jacksonville brought in reliever Zach Neal to start the fifth inning, and he was greeted by an infield single by Didi Gregorius, who then moved to second base on a throwing error. Brodie Green drove in his second run of the night when he tripled into the gap in left-center, with Gregorius scoring for a 7-0 advantage. Later in the inning, David Vidal’s sacrifice fly pushed Greene across the pate and the scoreboard read 8-0.

The Suns scored their only two runs of the night in the seventh against J.C. Sulbaran. Kyle Jensen led off the inning with a walk, and scored when Ryan Patterson drove in his 10th run of the season with a double down the left field line. With two outs, Donnie Webb doubled for his 15th run batted in on the year, with Patterson scoring to make the score 8-2.

Pensacola tacked on another run in the eighth inning on a RBI ground out by Chris Berset, and the Blue Wahoos had a 9-2 win. It’s the sixth time this season that the Suns have allowed eight runs or more, with the Blue Wahoos accomplishing the feat three times. Pensacola has won consecutive games for the first time in over two weeks, last winning two contests in a row in Jacksonville May 18-19.

It’s the third time this season that the Blue Wahoos have scored nine or more runs in a game, they also had a 9-3 win over the Suns April 26th at the Baseball Grounds. The seven run win is the second largest margin over victory that Pensacola has had in a game this season, second only to an 8-0 win over Birmingham May 12th at Bayfront Stadium.

Suns pitcher Graham Taylor had his shortest outing since his first start of the season, when he allowed six runs in four innings against Chattanooga. Taylor surrendered six runs (5 ER) on ten hits in his four innings of work on Tuesday and fell to 3-5 on the season. Zach Neal came out of the bullpen, allowing three runs on four hits in the final four innings of the game.

Blue Wahoos starter J.C. Sulbaran allowed two runs on seven hits over six and a-third innings to improve his record to 4-4. Sulbaran struck out 10 Suns batters to earn his first win over Jacksonville this season in four starts. Relievers Wilkin De La Rose and Clayton Tanner finished the job, allowing just one hit in the final three innings. Pensacola pitchers fanned 14 Suns batters on Tuesday, and in the series Blue Wahoos hurlers have 49 strike outs in four games.

For the Suns, Donnie Webb and Jeff Dominguez each finished with two hits, with Webb driving in his 15th run of the season. Ryan Patterson, Curt Smith, Kyle Jensen, and Kyle Skipworth each had one hit. The Blue Wahoos collected 14 hits. Five players had multi-hit efforts and seven players scored at least one run for Pensacola. David Vidal finished 3-for-3, drove in a run, and scored twice. Andrew Means went 3-for-4 with a RBI and a run scored. Ryan LaMarre and Brodie Greene each had two hits and two RBI. Didi Gregorius added a pair of hits to extend his hit streak to eight games. It’s his second streak of at least eight games this season.

The rubber match of the series is Wednesday night with the first pitch scheduled for 8:00 p.m. from Bayfront Stadium in Pensacola. RHP Matthew Neil (0-0, 5.49) will start his fourth game of the season for the Suns. RHP Daniel Corcino (2-3, 3.79) is set to take the mound for the Blue Wahoos.

Bowman Powers Suns Past Blue Wahoos

After a 44 minute rain delay, the Jacksonville Suns defeated the Pensacola Blue Wahoos 8-5 at the Baseball Grounds on Thursday May 17th. Photo Courtesy: Jacksonville Suns

By Steve Kolbe

The Jacksonville Suns used the long ball to defeat the Pensacola Blue Wahoos in the first game of their series 8-5 at the Baseball Grounds on Thursday night.

After a 44 minute rain delay, the Suns jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning against Pensacola starter J.C. Sulbaran, when Jeff Dominguez singled and scored on a Kyle Skipworth grounder that went under the glove of Blue Wahoos second baseman Brodie Greene. The Suns have scored at least one run in the first inning 12 times in 41 games this season, and have a record of 10-2 when they cross the plate in the first inning.

Jacksonville increased the lead to 2-0 in the second, when Kyle Jensen led off with a walk and scored on a one-out double by Chris Gutierrez. It was the first of two doubles and two runs batted in for Gutierrez, who now has eight doubles this season.

The Blue Wahoos figured out starter Jose Alvarez in the third inning, collecting four hits and scoring two runs to tie the game 2-2. With one out, Didi Gregorius doubled and Brodie Greene singled to put runners on first and third. Joel Guzman and Koyie Hill each drove in a run with and RBI single.

Pensacola added two more runs in the fourth against Alvarez when P.J. Phillips led off the inning with a single, and Andrew Means then doubled to center with Phillips motoring around to increase the Blue Wahoos lead to 3-2. Means would later score on a sacrifice bunt by Ryan LaMarre, and Pensacola had a 4-2 advantage.

For the second straight game the Suns would rally from two runs down for a win. In the bottom of the fourth, Kyle Jensen doubled to lead off the inning and scored on a sacrifice fly by Gutierrez to trim the Blue Wahoos lead to 4-3.

In the fifth inning, Jacksonville took the lead back when Jeff Dominguez and Jake Smolinski walked to start the inning. Kyle Skipworth drove in Dominguez with a ground out, and Ryan Patterson plated Smolinski with a double down the right field line and the Suns were ahead 5-4.

The score stayed that way until the ninth, with Evan Reed trying to preserve the win. With one out, Didi Gregorius singled and stole second base. Reed retired Brodie Greene on a fly out to center, but with two outs Joel Guzman jumped on a 2-0 pitch and doubled to left to drive in Gregorius and tie the game 5-5.

The Blue Wahoos turned the game over to Curtis Partch for the bottom of the ninth. Jake Smolinski led off with a double, and then Skipworth was walked intentionally. Shawn Bowman ended the game with a walk-off three-run home run that sailed into the flag court in left field to give the Suns an 8-5 win. The Suns have now hit a home run in five of the last six games.

The win snapped the Suns five game home losing streak. Jacksonville was outscored 25-3 in a five game sweep by the Mobile BayBears last week.

Chris Gutierrez finished the game 2-for-3 with two runs batted in. It was his fifth multi-hit game of the year. Kyle Skipworth drove in two runs to increase his RBI total to 17. The Suns finished with 10 hits in the game, reaching double-digits in hits for the first time in 13 games. Seven of the 10 hits were for extra bases, with six doubles and a home run.

Suns starter Jose Alvarez pitched six innings in his seventh start of the season. He allowed seven hits and four runs, while striking out five and walking just one. Blue Wahoos starter J.C. Sulbaran pitched four innings and allowed four hits and five runs. Evan Reed pitched two innings for the Suns earning the win and is now 2-1 this season. He allowed three hits, struck out three, and gave up the game tying run in the ninth. Curtis Partch didn’t record an out in the ninth and fell to 2-3 on the season.

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