Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 4, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (MIA) 1
The Tides ended their season with a tidy 4-1 win over the Jumbo Shrimp in which they never trailed. It was a day of small ball from start to finish.
Norfolk rallied for two runs in the first inning. Leadoff
hitter Reed Trimble singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Then, with two outs, Ryan Noda walked and Silas Ardoin and Terrin Vavra strung together back-to-back RBI singles.
Norfolk manufactured another run in the sixth: Noda got hit by a pitch, Ardoin walked, both runners advanced on a sac bunt, and Noda scored on Jud Fabian’s POFO groundout.
In the eighth, Gary Sánchez walked and—stop me if you’ve heard this one—Noda got hit by a pitch (his fifth time on base with no hits). Vavra singled to move the runners over and, on a wild pitch, Sánchez scored Norfolk’s fourth and final run.
That was more than enough offensive support for a quintet of Tides pitchers who held the Jumbo Shrimp to one run. Michael Caldon, recently brought up from Aberdeen, threw 2.1 scoreless and struck out four. Corbin Martin threw 1.2 innings, allowing the only Jacksonville run on a pair of singles and a stolen base. Peter van Loon threw two scoreless, and so did Alex Pham, who’s had a difficult year rehabbing from a forearm injury, but ends the year on a nice note with two scoreless. Cameron Foster got the save with a scoreless ninth inning.
The two rehabbing Orioles each reached base twice. Adley Ritschman singled and doubled, and Gary Sánchez hit a single and walked.
The Tides finish the season 63-84.
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