Biscuits Pound M-Braves, 11-0

PEARL, Mis. - The Biscuits (37-32) won the season series over the Mississippi Braves (33-36) on Saturday night, demolishing their South Division rivals in what was their largest win of the season, 11-0, at Trustmark Park. Montgomery has now shutout Mississippi in back-to-back games, and has not allowed a run in 15 innings.
José Mujica (6-4) made his 12^th and perhaps best start of the season, twirling seven shutout innings and allowing just three hits, one walk, and three strikeouts in the victory.
Mississippi starter Max Fried (2-10) looked good early, facing the minimum through the first three innings. But in the fourth, the Biscuits would finally get on the board thanks to an infield RBI-single by DH Mac James to put Montgomery up, 1-0. An inning later, Nathan Lukes' RBI-double and a Fried wild pitch made it a 3-0 ballgame.
The Biscuits would blow things open in the sixth with a five-spot courtesy of Riley Unroe's RBI-double, Nick Ciuffo's RBI-single, and Lukes' three-run homer over the right-center field wall. The round-tripper was Lukes' first at the Double-A level, as the left fielder became just the fifth Biscuit this season to knock in four runs in a game, and put them ahead, 8-0.
The Biscuits would tack on three more runs in the eleventh on a pair of wild pitches and another Ciuffo RBI-single, and got a scoreless eighth out of the bullpen from Kyle Bird, and a scoreless ninth from Kyle Winkler to seal the win.
The Biscuits will try to cap off the first half with another victory when Yoel Espinal (0-1) takes on Luiz Gohara (0-1) in Sunday's series finale at 1:00 PM.