Blockbuster Game for Bonifacio as Fightins Top Richmond
BOX SCORE 1 BOSX SCORE 2 (Reading, PA) – The Reading Fightin Phils split the doubleheader with the Richmond Flying Squirrels on Thursday. Richmond topped Reading 4-3 in game one, while the second belonged to the Fightins 6-4. Jorge Bonifacio sent three balls into the stand throughout the day, one
(Reading, PA) – The Reading Fightin Phils split the doubleheader with the Richmond Flying Squirrels on Thursday. Richmond topped Reading 4-3 in game one, while the second belonged to the Fightins 6-4. Jorge Bonifacio sent three balls into the stand throughout the day, one of them being a GRAND SLAM, the first of the season. Solid relief kept the Fightins in the contest during both games as four pitchers recorded scoreless outings.
Game 1: Richmond 4, Reading 3
· Top 1: Heliot Ramos scores on a wild pitch from Taylor Lehman
· Bot 1: Bonifacio doubles scoring Arquimedes Gamboa
· Bot 3: Bonifacio sends a solo shot to deep left center
· Top 4: Three Richmond hits, a sac fly, and a Fightins error allow three runs to score
· Lehman goes 3.1 with three hits and two earned runs, striking out five. Braden Zarbnisky (L, 1-1) allows one earned run. Tyler Carr pitches two scoreless.
Game 2: Richmond 4, Reading 6
· Top 1: Richmond scored again in the first, twice this time, but Bonifacio throws one out at the plate
· Top 3: A single from David Villar ends up scoring two as he gets caught in a run down trying to take second
· Bot 3: Reading puts themselves back into it as Bonifacio launches a two-run shot to center, scoring Daniel Brito
· Bot 6: Dalton Guthrie starts it off with a single; Hunter Hearn and Brito walk. With the bases loaded and two outs, Bonifacio sends his third home run of the day out of the park, it’s a grand slam!
· Mark Appel went three, allowing six hits and four earned runs. Jonathan Hennigan took the ball in relief for a scoreless two. Austin Ross (W, 1-1) and Jakob Hernandez (S, 1) both pitched a completely clean two to close it out.
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