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REMAINING REGULAR SEASON GAMES
Thursday, 6:35 p.m.: at Charleston, S.C.
Friday, 7 p.m.: Greensboro
Saturday, 7 p.m.: Greensboro
Sunday, 5 p.m.: Greensboro
Monday, 1 p.m.: Greensboro
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Dermis Garcia’s home run was just one of three hits for Charleston (S.C.) on Wednesday night, and it was enough to push the RiverDogs past the visiting Hickory Crawdads 2-0.
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Garcia hit a two-run shot in the sixth inning — his seventh of the season — as Charleston won before a crowd of 3,411 in a South Atlantic League (SAL) game that knocked the Crawdads out of first place.
With Hickory (63-72, 36-29 second half) losing and West Virginia sweeping a doubleheader 3-2 and 2-0 over Lakewood (N.J.), the Power (36-29) pulled into a tie atop the Northern Division standings with Hickory.
The Crawdads finish their series at Charleston (74-60, 40-24, first place in Southern Division, 4 ½ games up on Greenville, S.C.) on Thursday night at 6:35 p.m. then head home to play a crucial four-game series with Greensboro that begins with a 7 p.m. game on Friday night.
Greensboro, 34-29 in the second half, is a game back of Hickory and West Virginia after Kannapolis beat the Grasshoppers 13-11 on Wednesday night. The Intimidators wiped out an early 9-0 deficit with eight runs in the fifth inning and scored four runs in the eighth inning.
Meanwhile, Hickory was held to five hits in its loss – Brendon Davis singled in the second inning, Leody Taveras doubled in the third inning, Richardo Valencia doubled in the fourth inning, Andretty Cordero singled in the sixth inning and Alex Kowalczy had a single in the eighth inning.
Charleston’s three hits were a fifth-inning single by Oswaldo Cabrera, asingle by Brandon Wagner in the sixth inning and Garcia’s home run in that inning.
The RiverDogs’ Christian Morris (6-2) gained a win after going 2 2/3 innings, giving up two hits and striking out four. Matthew Wivinis, who threw strikes on 11 of his 15 pitches, picked up his third save of the season after pitching 1 1/3 innings and striking out two.
Kaleb Fontenot (5-4) took the loss in relief of A.J. Alexy (five innings, one hits, no runs, four walks, eight strikeouts). Fontenot went three innings, allowing two hits, two runs (both earned) with no walks and four strikeouts.
For Wednesday’s boxscore, click on the link below.
http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2017_08_30_hicafx_crdafx_1&t=g_box&did=milb&sid=t448