Jacksonville falls to Memphis 10-1
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After falling behind early, the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp couldn’t overcome a nine-run deficit in their 10-1 loss to the Memphis Redbirds Saturday evening from AutoZone Park. Memphis (12-13) got out to a hot start in the bottom of the second inning. Alfonso Rivas and Moises Gómez started
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After falling behind early, the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp couldn’t overcome a nine-run deficit in their 10-1 loss to the Memphis Redbirds Saturday evening from AutoZone Park.
Memphis (12-13) got out to a hot start in the bottom of the second inning. Alfonso Rivas and Moises Gómez started the inning with consecutive singles. Two batters later, Jared Young (3) blasted a three-run homer of Jacksonville (15-11) starter Max Meyer (L, 0-1) and they never looked back.
The lone Jumbo Shrimp run came in the top of the fourth. Dane Myers started the inning with a walk and went to second on a wild pitch. Tristan Gray followed with a walk and Will Banfield drove in Myers on a base hit cutting the deficit to 3-1.
The Redbirds went on a streak of seven unanswered runs between the fourth and sixth innings. Matt Koperniak (2) crushed a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth increasing the advantage to 4-1.
The lead kept growing for Memphis in the fifth. With one out, Victor Scott II stole second and went to third on a throwing error. Thomas Saggese brought him in with a base hit pushing the lead to four runs.
Memphis sent nine men to the plate in the bottom of the sixth, plating five runs on four hits. Koperniak started the inning with a walk and Young doubled putting runners on second and third. Nick Raposo singled home both runners pushing the lead up to 7-1. Nick Dunn followed with a double to put runners on second and third again. Three batters later, Cesar Prieto drove in two more runs with a base hit to give the Redbirds a 9-1 advantage. The final tally came on a double from Alfonso Rivas that scored Prieto from first giving the Redbirds a nine-run advantage.
Jacksonville and Memphis wrap up their series Sunday at 2:05 p.m. ET. LHP Patrick Monteverde (3-0, 3.15 ERA) gets the ball for Jacksonville and Memphis will hand the ball to RHP Michael McGreevy (1-3, 5.54 ERA). Coverage begins at 1:50 p.m. ET on ESPN 690 AM and espn690.com.
ABOUT THE JUMBO SHRIMP: The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins and compete in the International League. The team calls 121 Financial Ballpark home for baseball but also a wide variety of additional community focused events with a goal of providing Affordable, Family, FUN to Northeast Florida. Winners of many marketing and sales awards and recognition since the team was rebranded prior to the 2017 season, the Jumbo Shrimp continually lead the state of Florida in attendance across all minor league professional sports organizations.