With the win, the GreenJackets snap their own three-game losing streak and they break Savannah’s longest winning streak – six games – since 2004.
Rogers (4-5) earned his third win in a row and his fourth in his last six starts, holding the Sand Gnats to a run on three hits in six innings. Rogers walked two, struck out three and took advantage of one of the two double plays turned in by the GreenJackets defense.
Augusta scored twice in the first inning on just one hit, taking advantage of two Savannah errors and a wild pitch and stealing a pair of bases in the inning. Adam Duvall drove home the first run of the game on the inning’s only hit and later scored on Sand Gnats starter Yohan Almonte’s wild pitch to give the GreenJackets an early 2-0 edge. In the second, Carlos Willoughby’s two-out, run-scoring single pushed the lead to 3-0 as Augusta was held without an extra base hit for the second night in a row.
The Sand Gnats answered off Rogers in the third, breaking a string of eight outs in a row with back-to-back hits – the only time in the game the Gnats got two hits in the same inning. The second of the hits was an RBI double by Darrell Ceciliani to cut the GreenJackets’ advantage to 3-1.
Almonte (2-2) allowed three unearned runs for Savannah and worked just 1.2 innings, allowing two hits and no walks in the loss. Ryan Fraser came out of the bullpen to finish, holding the GreenJackets to just three hits in 6.1 scoreless innings while striking out five.
The Gnats got a run off Augusta reliever Jacob Dunnington in the eighth after a leadoff walk and a single put runners at the corners for Savannah. Robbie Shields hit into a double play that scored the second Gnats run, cutting the Augusta lead to one. In the ninth, Savannah got the tying run to second with one out, but Stephen Harrold induced a pair of groundouts to preserve the win for Rogers and earn his seventh save of the season.
from team press release
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