The Gnats took a 1-0 lead four batters into the game. 2B Luis Nieves doubled off the left field wall, and came home when Drive 3B Michael Almanzar couldn’t field DH Jordan Abruzzo’s bouncing ball to third.
The game turned when Greenville scored five times in the bottom of the fourth inning against Savannah starter Armando Rodriguez. Only one of the five runs was earned. A single, an error by 3B Aderlin Rodriguez and a fielders' choice put runners at first and second with one out. Greenville's 1B Reynaldo Rodriguez gave the Drive a 2-1 lead with a two-run double off the replica Green Monster in left field. A bloop and a walk loaded the bases for CF Reymond Fuentes who made it 3-1 Greenville with a sacrifice fly to left. C Christian Vazquez followed by lacing a double into the left-center field gap to drive home two more runs to put Greenville ahead 5-1.
Armando Rodriguez, who was visited by Savannah trainer Brad Hutson in the third, came back out in the fourth, but did not retire a batter in the inning. LF Shannon Wilkerson, who was 4-4, led off the inning with a single. RF Jeremy Hazelbaker's triple into the right field corner both chased home Wilkerson, and chased Rodriguez from the game. Rodriguez was charged with seven runs, three earned in three-plus innings. Reynaldo Rodriguez doubled against reliever Marcos Tabata for a 7-1 Drive lead in the fourth.
Savannah picked up single runs in the fifth and eighth innings, but could not mount a comeback. In the fifth, RF Cody Holliday doubled and scored. He drove home 3B Aderlin Rodriguez who had doubled, with a single into left in the eighth. Holliday was 4-4 with two doubles, an RBI and a run scored.
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