Drive Salvage Series with 11-1 Win over Tourists

Asheville, NC - Thanks to an 11:05 AM start time, the Greenville Drive (22-21) and the Asheville Tourists (25-19) got an early wakeup call on Tuesday. The Drive were up for the task, getting 13 hits and a dominant pitching effort in an 11-1 victory to avoid being swept in the four-game series.

Jimmy Rider led the way offensively with three hits, including a homer, and Bo Greenwell had three hits as well. Tzu-Wei Lin collected two hits and three RBI, and Zach Kapstein chipped in with two hits.

On the mound, Daniel McGrath (1-1) was nothing short of outstanding in his second start with the Drive. He fired six innings and allowed just one hit and one run, both on a fifth-inning solo homer, while striking out five and not issuing a walk.

After a quiet first inning, the Drive exploded for five runs, all with two outs, in the top of the second. The inning started against Zach Jemiola (3-5), as Rider began the scoring with an RBI single to score Jake Romanski, who singled and swiped second. Greenwell followed with a single to put runners on first and second, and Kapstein then lined a single of his own to center to score Rider.

The Tourists made a pitching change to Logan Norris following Jemiola's walk to Forrestt Allday, but the inning continued as Lin lined a two-run double to center to make the score 4-0, and Jantzen Witte lifted a sacrifice fly to score the fifth run.

Rider smacked his first homer of the season, a solo shot, in the third against Norris to push the lead to 6-0.

Correlle Prime was responsible for the only damage done against McGrath, as his solo homer to left put Asheville on the board. He had two of the Tourists' three hits on the afternoon.

The Drive rebounded with three runs in the sixth courtesy of Witte's two-run double and Romanski's sacrifice fly. They added two more runs in the ninth on Lin's RBI infield single and Witte's sacrifice fly.

Jacob Dahlstrand and Mike Adams finished the game off for Greenville by combining for three shutout innings.

After an off day, the Drive return home to Fluor Field and Downtown Greenville on Thursday for Dollar Drink Night! First pitch for the game is at 7:05.