PENSACOLA, Fla. - Pensacola completed its first series sweep of the season against Jacksonville, 12-7, Sunday night at Blue Wahoos Stadium. The Wahoos set the tone early against Jacksonville starter Kolton Mahoney (L, 3-5). With a 1-0 lead, TJ Friedl singled Taylor Sparks home to double the lead. With Mitch Nay
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Pensacola completed its first series sweep of the season against Jacksonville, 12-7, Sunday night at Blue Wahoos Stadium.
The Wahoos set the tone early against Jacksonville starter Kolton Mahoney (L, 3-5). With a 1-0 lead, TJ Friedl singled Taylor Sparks home to double the lead. With Mitch Nay batting, a wild pitch by Mahoney allowed Jose Siri to score, giving the Wahoos a 3-0 lead. By the time the second inning came to a close, the Wahoos were up big on the Jumbo Shrimp, leading 7-0.
Jacksonville went to their bullpen in hopes of stopping the onslaught. Reliever Reilly Hovis replaced Mahoney and wound up surrendering five more runs to the Blue Wahoos during his outing. Jacksonville used a total of four pitchers on Sunday and the bullpen allowed no more runs after the fifth inning.
Rookie Davis (W, 1-0) had an impressive first start in his rehab appearance for the Wahoos. Davis pitched six innings and allowed three runs on five hits, no walks, and four strikeouts. Davis contributed on the offensive side as well. In the bottom of the third inning, Davis launched a solo homer to right field to give the Wahoos a 10-3 lead at the time.
The Shrimp attempted to make a comeback in the ninth inning against Wyatt Strahan (S, 1). Sharif Othman singled to center field that scored Joe Dunand to cut Jacksonville's deficit 12-6. Eric Jagielo then hit an RBI single to left field to plate home Justin Twine to make the score 12-7. With runners on the corner, Strahan was able to get out of the jam when Monte Harrison lined out to right field to Aristides Aquino to end the game.
The Wahoos head on the road to face the Chattanooga Lookouts. It will be a battle of the southpaws as Seth Varner (5-1, 2.48) will start for the Wahoos and Lewis Thorpe (4-4, 3.95) will take the hill for the Lookouts. Monday's game can be found on the radio at 97.1 The Ticket/1490 AM Milton, and www.bluewahoos.com. First pitch is scheduled for 7:15 E.T.
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