Fireflies Season-Best Win Streak Snapped on Saturday
COLUMBIA, SC - The hottest team in the South Atlantic League hit a bump in the road on Saturday at Segra Park. After scoring 23 combined runs on Thursday and Friday, Columbia managed just three hits in a 2-0 loss to Greenville. Columbia's (22-26, 46-68) season-best six-game win streak came
COLUMBIA, SC - The hottest team in the South Atlantic League hit a bump in the road on Saturday at Segra Park. After scoring 23 combined runs on Thursday and Friday, Columbia managed just three hits in a 2-0 loss to Greenville.
Columbia's (22-26, 46-68) season-best six-game win streak came to an end on Saturday. Even despite being held to just three hits, the Fireflies put the ball into play all evening, striking out just three times. The home team just couldn't make solid contact against Greenville (18-29, 50-67) starter
Shugart only allowed two baserunners to reach scoring position and closed out his start by retiring the final eight hitters he faced.
His counterpart, Fireflies starter
That was one of two outfield assists for the Fireflies on Saturday. Right fielder
Hutchinson at one point in the game retired 11 straight Drive hitters. His successor on the slope,
Saturday's contest was the second-quickest of the year. The game lasted just two hours and 14 minutes, sixty seconds longer than Columbia's game against Kannapolis (2:13) on July 31.
The Fireflies can win the series with a victory on Sunday at 5:05 ET. Right-hander