RiverDogs Defeat Drive for Second Straight Night

Greenville, SC - Six strong innings on the mound for Greenville Drive starter Kyle Hart was not enough on Friday night as the Charleston RiverDogs took game two of the series with a 4-3 victory at Fluor Field.
The bats came alive for Charleston in both the seventh and eighth innings. The RiverDogs (36-36) rallied when Estevan Florial drew a walk and Ben Ruta singled in the seventh. With two outs and runners on second and third, catcher Keith Skinner knocked in two runs with a single off Harrison Cooney (0-1) to put the RiverDogs up 3-1.
Greenville (41-30) retaliated right back in the bottom half of the seventh. Lorenzo Cedrola singled to start off the inning, and Santiago Espinal followed by slamming a home run over the left-center field wall to tie the game up at three.
A half-inning later, Florial put the RiverDogs up 4-3 with a solo home run off Cooney.
The Drive nearly bounced back in the bottom of the eighth by putting two on base, but Espinal's line drive up the middle was snagged by David Sosebee to end the frame.

Neither team surrendered a run until the sixth inning, when Greenville's Mitchell Gunsolus walked with the bases loaded to put the Drive up 1-0.
Hart shut out the RiverDogs on Friday over six innings, allowing just four hits and no walks with three strikeouts to lower his ERA to 1.62 over eight appearances.
Nick Nelson worked four scoreless innings for the RiverDogs in his start. Christian Morris (3-1) got the win in relief, while Sosebee notched his second save.
Cedrola notched three hits in five trips to the plate on Friday, while Roldani Baldwin went 3-5 as well. Espinal added two hits and two RBI. The RiverDogs received two-hit nights from Florial and Hoy Jun Park.
The Battle of the Palmetto State presented by Spinx continues on Saturday night at 7:05 at Fluor Field. The Drive will start left-hander Robby Sexton (2-6, 4.59) against Charleston right-hander Brian Keller (5-5, 3.64).