Ring Rises Up, Shorebirds Walk Off in Matinee
SALISBURY, MD - Jake Ring socked a walk-off two-out two-run double to right center and the Delmarva Shorebirds staged a dramatic comeback to beat the Greenville Drive, winning 6-5 on Tuesday afternoon in front of nearly 4,000 schoolchildren at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium.With the Shorebirds (16-21) down 5-4 in the
SALISBURY, MD -
With the Shorebirds (16-21) down 5-4 in the ninth against top SAL closer
Nogosek got ahead in the count 0-2, but Ring cracked a liner to the gap in right center, taking two hops to the wall. Crinella scored and McKenna, who took off running on the pitch, followed right behind him. Ring raised his arms in triumph on second base as his teammates came swarming out of the dugout to mob him in Delmarva's second walk-off win of the season.
Ring finished the day 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs. The reigning Orioles Minor Leaguer of the Month now has a SAL-best 15 doubles on the season and ranks second in the league with 30 RBIs.
Greenville jumped ahead in the top of the third inning.
In the fifth,
Delmarva wasted no time getting back into it, though.
Billingsley led off the sixth with a triple of his own to the right field corner, and Ring's first double of the ballgame to left plated him.
The Drive countered to take the lead in the next half inning, going up 5-4 on back-to-back two-out doubles by
The Shorebirds got the tying run to third and the go-ahead run to first in their half of the seventh, but Ring rolled out to short to end the threat, setting himself up for redemption in the last of the ninth.
Crinella stretched his hitting streak to six games (8-22), going 2-for-3 with a triple, run, and two RBIs. In his past six, he's upped his batting average from .128 to .213.
Hill finished 3-for-4 with a double, run, two RBIs, and two stolen bases to lead the Drive. He went 9-for-15 with eight RBIs in the three games he played in the series.
Neither starter factored into the decision. Delmarva's
The win snaps the Shorebirds' five-game losing streak and caps their six-game homestand at 1-5. Delmarva will play three more games in Salisbury in May, wrapping up the month with 11 of 14 on the road.
After an off day on Wednesday, the Shorebirds pick it back up with the first of four in Greensboro against the Grasshoppers on Thursday.