5/17/14

Gnats split Double Header with Drive


The Savannah Sand Gnats and the Greenville Drive played a double header Friday at Grayson Stadium. The teams split with Savannah winning the first game 11-3 and Greenville winning the second game 4-1. Savannah is in first place in the Southern Division and remains 6.5 games ahead of Greenville in the standings.
In the opener, Savannah starter, Miller Diaz, won his 4th game pitching 5 shutout innings, allowed 1hit,  walked 4, and struck out 8. Diaz lowered his ERA to 1.74.  Savannah had 11 hits and scored at least 1 run in their first 5 innings.
Savannah third baseman, Jeff McNeil, had three singles and scored three runs. Stefan Sabol,lf drove in 3 runs and now has 30 RBI's which is among the league leaders. Dominic Smith,dh went 2-for-3 and drove in 3 runs.
Greenville scored 2 runs in the 6th and 1 run in the 7th off Sand Gnat reliver, Paul Paez, who pitched 2 innings, allowed 4 hits, 3 runs, walked 2, and struck out 1.
In the second game, Savannah took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when DH Gavin Cecchini tripled and scored on a double by L. J. Mazzilli.
Greenville scored 2 runs in the 4th inning and 2runs in the 5th inning all off Savannah starter, John Gant,who went 5 innings, allowed 4 runs on 7 hits, walked 2 and struck out 7. Taking the loss, Gant is now 4-2. It was another solid relief appearance for Gnats Akeel Morris, pitched the final 2 innings, no hits, no runs, 1walk and striking out 2.
The announced attendance was 3,097.
Saturday the Sand Gnats play the Charleston RiverDogs at 6:05 pm at Grayson Stadium.

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