Season Reaches the Brink After Another Blown Lead
ASHEVILLE- The Asheville Tourists have now suffered their three largest blown leads to lose a game this season in a five-day stretch. Asheville let a 4-0 lead get away from them and fell to the Rome Braves by a final score of 8-4. Just like in the previous two losses,
ASHEVILLE- The Asheville Tourists have now suffered their three largest blown leads to lose a game this season in a five-day stretch. Asheville let a 4-0 lead get away from them and fell to the Rome Braves by a final score of 8-4. Just like in the previous two losses, the lead evaporated in one inning.
The Braves did almost all of their damage in the bottom of the fourth inning. They scored six runs on seven hits and sent ten batters to the plate. Rome had a total of three hits combined over the other seven innings.
Asheville's starting pitcher,
The Tourists executed a perfect safety squeeze bunt in the second inning to open the scoring.
After the Braves plated their six runs in the fourth the Tourists went to
Much like in the previous two blown-lead losses the offense never really got back into their groove. Asheville did not have a runner reach third base from the fifth inning on. The Tourists are now one loss or one Augusta win away from being eliminated from a second half Southern division title. Asheville and Augusta each have two games left on their schedules.