Grayson Stadium

Grayson Stadium
Historic Grayson Stadium

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Sand Gnats Win Double Header

The first game of the double header between the Savannah Sand Gnats and the Greenville Drive was played Friday afternoon at Grayson Stadium. Greenville had a 2-0 lead and Savannah scored  2 runs in the 7 th inning to tie the game and scored a run in the 9 th to win the game 3-2.
Sand Gnats scored 2 runs in the 7 th. Dustin Lawley doubled. Walks to Cole Frenzel and Greg Pron  loaded the bases. A single by Brandon Brown drove in 2 runs.
In the 9 th Savannah scored the winning run when Greg Pron doubled and scored on a throwing error on a ground out.
Savannah had 8 hits for the game:Cam Maron was 2- for-4 and Brown was 2- for-4.
Winning pitcher for Savannah was T. J. Chrism who is now(4-2), who pitched 2/3 of an inning and struck out 1.
The first game started in the second inning as it was continued from the rain out game on Thursday.

The second game of the double header saw Savannah with 13 hits( 5 players had 2 hits each), win the 7 inning game 9-5.
In the 1 st inning Savannah sent 9 players to the plate, scored 3 runs on 5 hits, highlited by a 3- run home run by Frenzel. Sand Gnats added a run in the 3 rd inning. The final 5 runs for Savannah scored in the fourth inning when they had 5 hits.
Winning pitcher for Savannah was Chasen Bradford(4-5), who pitched 1 inning, allowed 1 hit and walked 1.
The announced attendance was 1,859.
The final game of the series will be played Saturday at Grayson Stadium

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