Haas connects for second homer in Hot Rods’ 7-3 win
Published 11:28 pm Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Bowling Green Hot Rods second baseman Hunter Haas (12) runs home on a triple in the Hot Rods’ 8-3 win over the Winston-Salem Dash at the BG Ballpark on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (Grace Ramey/grace.ramey@bgdailynews.com)
Hunter Haas crushed his second home run of the season, leading the Bowling Green Hot Rods to a 7-3 victory over the Greensboro Grasshoppers on Tuesday at Bowling Green Ballpark.
The Grasshoppers (16-11) scored the first run of the game in the top of the third inning against Hot Rods starter Yoniel Curet. Rodolfo Nolasco ripped a double to left field and moved up to third on a fielding error by the first baseman Xavier Isaac. The catcher, Kamren James, committed a throwing error that allowed Nolasco to score and make it 1-0.
Bowling Green (14-14) took the lead in the bottom of the third off Greensboro starter Patrick Reilly. Chandler Simpson singled, while Isaac and Brayden Taylor worked back-to-back walks to load the bases. Cooper Kinney crushed a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Simpson and tying the game 1-1. Isaac scored from third on a sacrifice fly by Colton Ledbetter to put the Hot Rods up 2-1.
The Hot Rods opened it up off Reilly in the bottom of the fifth. Simpson led off with a double and scored on a base hit by Isaac to make it a 3-1 ballgame. Isaac came around to score on a double from Taylor, extending the lead, 4-1. Ledbetter singled to left, plating Taylor to put Bowling Green up 5-1.
Greensboro scored two more runs in the top of eighth off Bowling Green reliever Jeff Hakanson with a two-run homer by Lonnie White Jr.
Bowling Green answered back with two of their own in the bottom half of the inning with a two-run home run from Haas against Grasshoppers reliever Jaycob Deese.
JJ Goss shut out the Grasshoppers in the ninth, finalizing the score, 7-3.
Curet (1-3) earned the win, allowing an unearned run on one hit, two walks and tallying nine strikeouts over five frames. Reilly (1-2) took the loss, allowing four runs on five hits, three walks and finishing with three strikeouts over four innings.
The Hot Rods and Grasshoppers continue their six-game series on Wednesday with first pitch set for 11:05 a.m. Bowling Green rolls out right-hander Duncan Davitt (1-2, 4.38), while Greensboro starts righty JP Massey (2-2, 5.50).
