Big 9th From Fireflies Drives Comeback Over Greenville

Columbia Fireflies @ Greenville Drive

April 23, 2016

Tyler Badamo @ Anderson Espinoza

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Columbia	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	5		7	10	1
Greenville	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0		3	7	0

W: Davis (1-0, 2.19 ERA); L: McEachern (1-1, 5.11 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

Fist bumps all around after a strong effort from Tyler Badamo

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Tyler Badamo (5.09 ERA) – 6.2 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 3 BB, 5 K, 90 Pitches (58 Strikes), 9 GO: 4 FO

Seth Davis – 2.1 IP, BB, 2 K, 2 GO, 3 Pop outs, 2 IR – 0 S

Anderson Espinoza (2.45 ERA) – 3.1 IP, 3 H, R, 3 BB, 4 K, 74 Pitches (43 Strikes), 3 GO: 3 FO

Batters

2B – Vinny Siena – 2-4, R, 2 RBI (8), SF, SB (1)

1B – Dash Winningham – 2-4

PR/RF – Tucker Tharp – 1-1, R, RBI (2), SB (1)

RF/1B – Jeffrey Diehl – 1-2, 2 R, HR (2), 3 RBI (7), 3 BB, K

LF – Vicente Lupo – 1-3, 2B (2), RBI (2), BB, K

SS – Milton Ramos – 1-3, R, HBP

CF – Ivan Wilson – 2-4, 2 R, 2B (7)

3B – Michael Chavis – 1-2, R, 2B (4), RBI (14)

1B – Josh Ockimey – 1-3, BB

CF – Luis Alexander Basabe – 1-3, 2B (2), RBI (9), BB, K

Recapish

            The Columbia Fireflies battled back to clinch the series win against Greenville Saturday, scoring 5 runs in the 9^th to surge ahead.

Cola starter Tyler Badamo struggled with command in the 1^st inning, and the Drive touched him up for a pair of runs on two doubles and two walks. Badamo would settle in after that, allowing only one run over his final 5.2 IP Saturday night, and facing just one over the minimum until Greenville rallied for their third run in the 6^th. Per John Calvagno – he writes a great blog called Notes From The Sally that you should open in a new tab for when you’re done here ;) – Badamo was 87-90 MPH with his fastball, and mixed in a low-80’s slurve and changeup. He called it a slurve because it looks like curve (see below), but is thrown at slider speed (81-83, which is curve territory for some hard throwers).