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Spartanburgers hit four homers in win at Greensboro
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hub City flipped the script Thursday against the team with the most home runs in the South Atlantic League, taking down Greensboro 7-4. Four separate Spartanburgers home runs powered the offense, while Josh Trentadue and Kolton Curtis (W, 2-1) combined for all nine innings on the mound with 10 strikeouts. Both starters allowed a runner into scoring position in the first but eventually put zeroes on the scoreboard. Facing Greensboro right-hander Khristian Curtis (L, 1-4), Yeison Morrobel mashed the first pitch of the top of the second inning off the right-field scoreboard. Trentadue protected the lead, working around a walk and an error in the bottom half. After a calmer third frame, Khristian Curtis lost his command in the fourth. The Spartanburgers led the inning off with a walk and a single. A Greensboro fielding error contributed to the Spartanburgers scoring a run. After a couple more walks and a pitching change, new reliever Jack Carey stranded three on the bags. Hub City got to Carey in the fifth. With one out, Keith Jones tagged a line-drive home run to right. Anthony Gutierrez followed Jones up with his first homer of the season, sending one well over the left-center field wall. Kolton Curtis took over for Trentadue in the bottom of the fifth. Duce Gourson responded with two outs for a two-run home run to cut the Hub City lead in half. In the top of the sixth, Arturo Disla traded another blow. Disla scorched a two-run blast of his own to dead-center. The 'Burgers tacked on one more run in the seventh. Gutierrez was hit by the first pitch of the inning. He stole second, and Morrobel doubled home the seventh run of the game for Hub City. It was the last of three hits on the evening for Morrobel, collecting a second RBI. The Grasshoppers fought back in the eighth against Kolton Curtis. Keiner Delgado started the inning with a leadoff homer. The next two batters reached on a single and a walk. Kolton Curtis promptly rolled a double play. A two-out single from Omar Alfonzo scored a second run in the inning. The Spartanburgers went into the ninth with a three-run lead. Morrobel popped out to finish a clean top of the inning and end any chance of a cycle. After a leadoff single in the bottom half, Kolton Curtis turned his own double play on a comebacker. One pitch later, the Spartanburgers turned a ground ball into the final out of the contest. With a 7-4 win, the Spartanburgers take a 2-1 series lead into Friday. RHP David Davalillo (4-0, 1.02 ERA) toes the rubber for Hub City trying to follow up his SAL May Pitcher of the Month selection. Greensboro sends LHP Connor Wietgrefe (0-2, 6.75 ERA) out there to challenge. First pitch is slated for 6:30 p.m. ET. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Winston-Salem outlasts Spartanburgers in 12 innings
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Another night at Fifth Third Park brought fans another rainy nailbiter of a game between Hub City and Winston-Salem. The Dash were the better team in extras Thursday night, scoring two runs in the top of the 12th inning and clinging to a 4-3 win over the Spartanburgers. The 'Burgers had three walk-off chances with the game tied at 2-2, but couldn't capitalize in either the ninth, 10th or 11th innings. Winston-Salem's Matt Hogan lifted a pinch-hit single into center field to put the Dash ahead in the 12th, and Braden Montgomery drove in Hogan for the eventual winning run. Over three and a half hours earlier, both team's starters faced the minimum in the first inning. Kolton Curtis surrendered a walk and a single with one out in the second. Hub City's starter battled back with a strikeout and flyout to leave the runners at the corners. He was not as fortunate in the third. After walking Terrell Tatum to start the inning, Curtis struck out two more Dash batters. In the process, Tatum swiped both second and third. A wild pitch allowed the first Dash run to cross. Winston-Salem added a second run in the fourth. Alec Makarewicz worked a leadoff walk, hustled from first to third on a single, then scored on a fielder's choice ground ball, doubling the Dash lead to 2-0. Hub City battled back in the sixth. First, the Spartanburgers took advantage of Winston-Salem's defensive mishaps. With runners on first and second, Keith Jones II hit a slow hopper to shortstop Jeral Perez. The Dash shortstop fielded the baseball cleanly, but on the move, fired wildly towards first. The throw across ricocheted off the first base dugout, and lead runner Danyer Cueva took advantage, dashing home. Both other runners took an extra 90 feet. Disla scored on a sacrifice fly from Gleider Figuereo to tie the game. After Anthony Susac stranded the bases loaded in the fifth, Hub City turned to Josh Trentadue in the sixth. Trentadue stranded a runner a third in his first inning of work. He escaped a runners at second and third with no out jam in the seventh to keep the game tied. As rain poured down onto the field, Hub City managed just a single base runner in the final three frames while Trentadue tossed clean innings in the eighth and ninth to force extras. Trentadue finished with six strikeouts and no hits allowed in four innings of work. After Wilian Bormie struck out two and stranded the automatic runner at second in the 10th, Hub City got two runners to scoring position with two outs in the bottom half. A groundout ended the threat. Mailon Felix (L, 0-2) chucked up another zero in the 11th after a double play and a strikeout. The Spartanburgers again got the winning run to third but could not cash in. Winston-Salem bunted the go-ahead run to third to begin the 12th. After Tatum walked and stole second, Hogan knocked a pinch-hit single to give the Dash the lead. Tatum was thrown out at the plate trying to score a second run. After another walk, Montgomery scorched a double to right to score a second run in the inning. The trail runner was again tagged out at the plate. The Spartanburgers managed an RBI single from Cueva against Carson Jacobs (W, 3-2) in the bottom of the 12th. That was all the offense Hub City could muster, leaving the tying run at first. Hub City and Winston-Salem battle Friday night at 7:05 p.m. ET in the fourth contest of the six-game set. 'Burgers' ace David Davalillo (3-0), the Rangers No. 29 prospect and the High-A leader in ERA (0.92) squares off with Dash RHP Jake Bockenstedt (1-3, 6.05 ERA). Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
