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WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
The Crawdads – and all South Atlantic League (SAL) teams — were idle on Wednesday night
CRAWDADS’ RECORD: 44-49 overall, 14-11 second half South Atlantic League (SAL) Northern Division
ROSTER
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Thursday: Kannapolis, 7 p.m.
Friday: Kannapolis, 7 p.m.
Saturday: Kannapolis, 5 p.m.
Sunday: Kannapolis, 5 p.m.
Monday: at Greenville, S.C., 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday: at Greenville, S.C., 7:05 p.m.
OTHER AREA PLAYERS
HAYDEN DEAL (Class A Rome, Ga.)
Hayden Deal, a star at Bandys High who played college baseball at Presbyterian, picked up his fifth win of the season on Tuesday night when the visiting Braves edged Augusta (Ga.) 5-1.
Deal, a left-hander, pitched a complete game (seven innings), allowing four hits, one run (earned), walking none and striking out five.
His performance came in the second game of a doubleheader (with a mid-day start), and the Braves won the first game 6-4 before 2,945.
Making his first appearance since June 8, Deal threw 74 pitches (51 for strikes), faced 24 batters and got 10 ground ball outs.
Deal is 5-1 with an ERA of 1.89, pitching 57 innings this season. He’s hit four batters, intentionally walked one and walked nine to go with 60 strikeouts. Opponents are hitting .197 against him this season.
In his last 10 outings, he is 2-1 with an ERA of 1.86, pitching 38 2/3 innings with five walks and 32 strikeouts.
The Braves are 50-45 overall and 10-16 in the second-half SAL Southern Division standings. They won a first-half title, securing a postseason berth.
ZACH JARRETT (Class A Delmarva, Md.)
Zach Jarrett — who starred in high school at Hickory and in college at Charlotte – went 0-for-3 on Tuesday night in an 8-1, five-inning loss at West Virginia before 1,818.
He started in center field – batting third in the lineup — and his batting average dropped from .303 to .300, leaving him tied for fifth with Luis Gonzalez of Kannapolis among six hitters in the league at least .300.
In 89 games this season, Jarrett also has 19 doubles, three triples, 13 home runs and 52 RBIs. He’s hitting .231 with three home runs and five RBIs in his last 10 games.
Jarrett is tied for seventh with two others players in the league with 13 home runs.
Delmarva dropped to 51-42 and 16-10 in the second half in the SAL Northern Division standings. The Shorebirds are in second place in the second-half standings, a half-game back of Lakewood, N.J.
HUNTER HARVEY (Class AA Bowie, Md.)
Former Bandys High star Hunter Harvey remains in Florida as he recovers from a shoulder injury sustained while trying to maneuver away from a foul ball into the dugout on a day he was not pitching.
When he twisted to avoid being struck by the ball, his right shoulder popped out of socket.
Harvey is now throwing some and is expected to pitch in a game in Florida on Aug. 4.
He was scratched from his 10th start (June 8) and remains listed as “active” on the Bowie roster. He is on the Baltimore Orioles’ 40-man roster, so if he were to go on the 60-day disabled list he would be considered on the major league roster during that time.
Harvey is 1-2 with 32 1/3 innings pitched. He’s allowed 36 hits, 20 runs (all earned), walked eight and struck out 30. His ERA is 5.57.
Bowie finished last in the first-half West Division of the Eastern League, 8 ½ games back of division winner Akron (Ohio).
Altoona (Pa.) downed visiting Bowie 5-3 on Wednesday night before 4,441, leaving the Baysox at 43-51 overall in the Eastern League.