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Dash Walk Off Tourists To Split Series

May 22, 2022

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (May 22, 2022) — The Winston-Salem Dash battled back to walk off against the Asheville Tourists, winning 11-10 in 10 innings. The Dash jumped out to a hot start in the bottom of the first, as Duke Ellis worked a walk. Terrell Tatum was up next, and he

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (May 22, 2022) — The Winston-Salem Dash battled back to walk off against the Asheville Tourists, winning 11-10 in 10 innings.

The Dash jumped out to a hot start in the bottom of the first, as Duke Ellis worked a walk. Terrell Tatum was up next, and he continued his torrid stretch with a single to put runners on the corners. With Oscar Colas up, Tatum broke for second base and was in safely, while Ellis capitalized on the throw down and stole home for the game’s first run. Winston-Salem added another run in the frame on a Luis Mieses RBI single to drive in Tatum.

In the second inning, Asheville immediately got a run back with JC Correa launching a solo home run to lead off the inning.

The Tourists struck again in the third. They opened the inning with a Christian Gonzalez single, a Michael Sandle walk, then a Will Wagner single loaded the bases. With one out, Nerio Rodriguez scorched a ball that ricocheted off of Luis Curbelo at third base, to score both Gonzalez and Sandle. Chad Stevens added another run on a single to plate Rodriguez, and the Tourists pulled ahead 5-2.

Both pitching staffs locked in for the middle third of the game. Cooper Bradford and Trey Jeans combined to spin four scoreless innings for Winston-Salem, allowing just one hit and striking out five.

But in the eighth, Asheville started to pull away. After Nerio Rodriguez drew a leadoff walk,

Zach Daniels cranked a two run bomb to give the Tourists a 7-2 lead. Later in the frame, CJ Stubbs blasted a solo home run to put Asheville up 8-2.

However, the Dash did not go down easy. Alsander Womack reached on a leadoff single, then Jason Matthews doubled to put runners on second and third before a Duke Ellis walk loaded the bases. In stepped Terrell Tatum, and he delivered a bases-clearing double down the left field line, and the Dash now trailed 8-5.

The inning continued with a Mieses double that brought Tatum around to score, and then Adam Hackenberg singled to drive Mieses in. After the eighth, Winston-Salem trailed 8-7.

After a scoreless top of the ninth, Jason Matthews led off the bottom half with a game tying solo home run. The Dash were able to load the bases after that blast, but Asheville escaped without allowing another run to send the game to extra innings.

On to the 10th inning, where Chad Stevens broke the deadlock with a single to right field, plating JC Correa. A wild pitch allowed Zach Daniels to cross home, and the Dash found themselves trailing 10-8 going to the bottom of the 10th.

In the home half, Winston-Salem once again showed tremendous resolve to battle back.

Luis Curbelo dropped a bloop single into right field, with Harvin Mendoza advancing to third as the “ghost runner”. Up next was Womack, who hit a soft single into shallow right to score Mendoza and cut the Tourists lead to 10-9. Jason Matthews then got hit by a pitch, to load the bases. Duke Ellis came up huge for the Dash, dunking in a single to score Matthews and level the score at 10-10. After Tatum got hit in the foot, Oscar Colas found himself up with the bases loaded and one out. After working the count full, Colas laced the ball the other way for a walk off single. Matthews scored the game winning run, and the Dash won 11-10.