Sam Coonrod Earns SAL Pitcher of the Week
AUGUSTA, GA: The Augusta GreenJackets, Single "A" affiliate of the 2014 World Champion San Francisco Giants, are proud to announce that starting pitcher Sam Coonrod has been named the South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week. This week's award reaches from the dates of July 20th through July 26th.
During Sam Coonrod's past week he started just one game against the Hickory Crawdads. In his longest outing of 2015 Coonrod pitched eight innings. He retired the first fourteen batters of the game. Twelve of those fourteen outs were recorded as ground ball outs. When Coonrod left the mound his stat sheet zero earned runs, three hits, and struck out six Crawdad batters. The win improved Coonrod's record to six and three on the season.
Prior to today's July 27th game Sam Coonrod sits at top of the strike out total in the SAL with eight-nine just two ahead of Savannah's Carlos Polanco. Coonrod's 2.45 ERA places him in third place just behind teammate Mark Reyes with an ERA of 2.43. He is also third in WHIP at 1.13 for the season.
Coonrod is now the fourth Augusta GreenJacket to earn the SAL player or pitcher of the week honors in the 2015 season. This is the third consecutive week a GreenJacket has won the word. Matt Gage (July 6th- July 12th), Aramis Garcia (July 13th-19th). Jonah Arenado also won the award back in the end of April / beginning of May.
Tonight, Sam Coonrod returns back to the mound at Lake Olmstead Stadium as the Augusta GreenJackets put their seven game winning-streak on the line tonight versus the Delmarva Shorebirds. Entering tonight the GreenJackets find themselves just a half game back of the Asheville Tourists in the SAL Southern Division.
Head over to the Lake Olmstead Stadium for the final two games of the homestand, starting with tonight's promotional night theme Feed Your Face Monday presented by WRDW Channel 12. When guests can enjoy unlimited amounts of select ballpark items until the sixth inning when fans can enjoy select ballpark food. Tuesday night, the final game of the homestand features the Bank and Credit Union Challenge. Check out the GreenJackets Facebook page to see how you can receive ½ price tickets to the game. Tuesday night's everyone goes BOGO for SweetWater's BOGO Bevs two-for-one pricing on soft drinks and draft beers throughout the game
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