Cardinals Continue Skid Against Danville

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.- On Tuesday night the Johnson City Cardinals and the Danville Braves played game two of their three-game series after a rain delay of an hour and fifteen minutes swept through Johnson City. The Cardinals went into the game trying to snap their five-game losing skid. 

The Danville Braves got to the 19-year-old Jordan Hicks on Tuesday as they roughed him up for his worst outing of the year. The Braves struck for nine runs (eight earned) off Hicks in just three and two-thirds innings of work. The Cardinals in the bottom of the second inning struck for five runs as both Luis Bandes and J.R. Davis hit sacrifice flies. In the same inning Allen Cordoba tripled in Stephen Zavala, Cordoba then came around to score on the same play from an errant throw on the second baseman Matt Gonzalez. 

The Braves would erase the big second inning from the Cardinals in the fourth when Danville answered for five of their own, the inning was capped off by Brett Cumberland as he launched a three-run blast to left. Cumberland in the game ended with a 3-5 night that included two doubles, a home run, and six runs batted in.  

With the loss, the Johnson City Cardinals have now lost five games in a row and fall to 15-16 on the season, the Danville Braves with the victory advance to 17-15. The Cardinals also remain in second place, one game out of first behind the Greeneville Astros. Tomorrow the Cardinals and Braves will play the finale from TVA Credit Union ballpark at 7 PM.