Drive Outslug Legends 13-12 on Monday
Lexington, KY - The Greenville Drive and Lexington Legends locked horns in a back-and-forth slugfest on Monday night, and the Drive offense used a 19-hit attack to hold off the Legends 13-12 in game three of the four-game set.The Drive (10-27) saw two players put together monster nights to power
Lexington, KY - The Greenville Drive and Lexington Legends locked horns in a back-and-forth slugfest on Monday night, and the Drive offense used a 19-hit attack to hold off the Legends 13-12 in game three of the four-game set.
The Drive (10-27) saw two players put together monster nights to power the offense. Catcher
The game turned topsy-turvy in the top of the sixth, when the Drive scored five times to come back from a 3-2 deficit. Madden hit a two-run single as part of the frame, while a pair of Lexington (17-18) errors and a sacrifice fly from
The Legends rebounded in the bottom half with four runs to tie the game at 7-7, thanks to a three-run double by
Not to be outdone, the Drive scored four more runs in the top of the seventh. With the bases loaded and nobody out,
After Lexington plated a run on an error in the bottom of the eighth, the Drive scored a pair of insurance runs in the ninth courtesy of an RBI single by
Those runs proved crucial when the Legends scored four times in the final half inning. A two-run homer by M.J. Melendez got the ball rolling, and after a wild pitch brought in a run,
Sterry drove home the Drive's first two runs of the evening with a double in the third and a triple in the fifth.
Suarez joined in on the Drive offensive fun with three hits, while
The series finale begins at 7:05 on Tuesday night in Lexington. Right-hander
~Greenville Drive~