Three Home Runs Down Blue Wahoos In Series Finale
For one of the few times, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos had their season-long script flipped.They immediately fell behind and couldn't reverse the outcome.The Mississippi Braves blasted a trio of home runs, two by first baseman Andy Wilkins, whose two-run shot in the first inning provided the decisive RBI in a
For one of the few times, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos had their season-long script flipped.
They immediately fell behind and couldn't reverse the outcome.
The Mississippi Braves blasted a trio of home runs, two by first baseman
But the Blue Wahoos (23-12) left with the series win after taking three of the first four games, including two consecutive shutout wins (1-0 and 4-0) on Wednesday and Thursday. The Blue Wahoos left immediately after Friday's game for Chattanooga, Tenn. to begin a five-game series Saturday against the Chattanooga Lookouts.
This series will feature former Blue Wahoos manager Pat Kelly, now the Lookouts manager, along with 13 Blue Wahoos players now in a visitors dugout, after playing last year as the Minnesota Twins affiliate in Chattanooga.
Friday night, the Blue Wahoos struggled to generate any offense in a game which lasted just two hours and two minutes.
The M-Braves (17-16), who have an array of talented starters, got a strong start from 21-year-old
Muller pitched seven complete innings, allowing just five hits, one run, two walks and six strikeouts.
The Blue Wahoos had only seven base runners in the game. Two of those were erased on double plays.
Blue Wahoos pitcher
He left a couple pitches Friday over the plate enough to become home runs. Wilkins hit a two-out, first pitch from Jax over the right-center wall in the first inning.
The score remained 2-0 until the sixth inning.
The Blue Wahoos got their only run off a wild pitch.
First baseman
Earlier in the day, Minnesota Twins third baseman