Ingram, Missigman, and Palsha K Their Way Through The Rome Finale

Columbia Fireflies @ Rome Braves

April 13, 2016

Chase Ingram @ Patrick Weigel

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

W: Ingram (1-0, 1.80 ERA); L: Jones (0-1, 4.91 ERA); Save: Palsha (1, 5.79 ERA)

MiLB.com Boxscore

The Highlights:

Pitchers

Chase Ingram (1.80 ERA) – 6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 8 K, 77 Pitches (57 Strikes), 9 GO, HBP

Craig Missigman (H, 1, 3.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 K, 1 GO

Alex Palsha (S, 1, 5.79 ERA) – 2 IP, 2 H, 4 K, 2 GO

Patrick Weigel (1.80 ERA) – 4 IP, 3 H, R, 3 BB, 6 K, 83 Pitches (53 Strikes), 4 GO: 1 FO

Batters

DH – J.C. Rodriguez – 1-4, SO

3B – David Thompson – 1-3, R, RBI (8), BB, SO

1B – Dash Winningham – 1-4, R, RBI (1), SO

LF – Joe Tuschak – 1-4, RBI (3), SO, CS

SS – Milton Ramos – 1-3, R

Recapish

            The Columbia Fireflies hot starting pitching continued Wednesday morning in their finale against Rome. Chase Ingram began the second turn much like he did the first, by setting a high bar for the rest of the rotation. Ingram was dealing over 6 very strong innings, and could’ve easily gone deeper if not for his early April pitch limits. Before he left, the Fireflies would give him back a one run lead in the top half of the 6^th, and then Ingram put a punctuation mark on his performance by striking out Bradley Keller for a third time to end the bottom half. Braves starter Patrick Weigel flashes some nice stuff during his outing, but had to leave after the 4^th due to his high pitch count. David Thompson continued his hot hitting ways, picking up his 8^th RBI in just a week, and scoring a run on Dash Winningham’s 1^st RBI of the year. After 9^th inning struggles against Charleston, the Columbia bullpen was lights out against Rome, throwing 4 scoreless innings across the 3 games (two of them were 7-inning games due to the double-header). Craig Missigman and Alex Palsha combined to add 6 strikeouts to the Fireflies tally, and the combined 14 strikeouts narrowly set the season high – they combined for 13 strikeouts during the nono.