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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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01-05-2025
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Spartanburgers edge Rome
ROME, Ga. — It only took one big-time swing to win Wednesday's morning matchup between the Spartanburgers and the Emperors. Casey Cook provided the crucial contact with an RBI single in the final inning. Behind a dominant pitching performance, Hub City (13-10) took down Rome (13-10) in a 1-0 game that barely lasted more than two hours. Aidan Curry got the day started on the mound for the Spartanburgers. In by far his longest outing of the season, Curry controlled the game with seven strikeouts and just one hit through five innings of scoreless baseball. Hub City tag-teamed the final four innings out of the bullpen; Joey Danielson, Dylan MacLean, Larson Kindreich (W, 3-0) and Wilian Bormie (S, 2) all tossed scoreless innings in relief. While the Spartanburgers ran up Rome starter Garrett Baumann's pitch count, they could not capitalize on walks in each of the first two frames. After a clean first inning for Curry, the second was the only challenging frame all day for Hub City's starter. After E.J. Exposito walked to begin the inning, Will Verdung doubled to put two runners in scoring position with no outs. Curry battled back with a pair of strikeouts before a fly out to center field ended the threat. Curry set down the final ten batters he faced, ending his day with two strikeouts in the bottom of the fifth. A Gleider Figuereo single in the fourth was all Hub City could muster in the final two innings of work from Baumann. After almost 80 pitches, Rome's starter was replaced to begin the fifth, as Samuel Strickland tossed an easy one-two-three inning for the Emperors. Tyler LaPorte took over in the sixth. Across two innings, the only two baserunners LaPorte let up were thrown out on the basepaths. Danielson struck out the side for Hub City in the sixth. MacLean ran into some trouble in the seventh. The reliever for the Spartanburgers walked a pair of Rome batters, but he stranded them at first and second. Esteban Mejia reached on a throwing error with one out in the eighth against new Rome pitcher LJ McDonough. A double play ended any hopes of the game's first run for the Spartanburgers. Kindreich did not allow a hit out of the bullpen in the eighth. The righty walked a batter and hit another but kept the Emperors off the scorebard. Headed to the ninth, Rome and Hub City were still tied at zero. New Emperors reliever Austin Smith (L, 0-1) began his afternoon by hitting Anthony Gutierrez with the first pitch he threw. Gutierrez promptly stole second; his eleventh stolen bag of the year moves him one shy of the South Atlantic League lead. After a Keith Jones walk, Arturo Disla bounced into a 5-4-3 double play, advancing Gutierrez to third. With two outs, Cook lined a 2-1 pitch into right to score the only run of the game. Wilian Bormie entered to try and finish off the win in the bottom of the ninth. The fifth pitcher of the day for Hub City worked around a one-out infield single from Verdung. After a flyout, Bormie struck out Ambioris Tavarez to finish off the Spartanburgers victory. Hub City evens the series 1-1 with the win. The Spartanburgers also bounce back into a tie for the South Atlantic League South Division lead with the Emperors. The two squads battle for first place again Thursday night. Hub City's Kolton Curtis (0-0, 6.75 ERA) takes the ball against Rome's Adam Meier (1-1, 5.30 ERA) at 7:00 p.m. ET. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
