Send Jackets score 9 in big win over Kannapolis

Posted: 7:26 PM Apr 24, 2012
Reporter: Staff

Tuesday April 24, 2012

Augusta, GA – The Augusta GreenJackets got 5.1 scoreless innings of one-hit relief from Paul Davis and Scotty Walker and a pair of home runs by Jose Cuevas to pull away with a 9-4 win over the Kannapolis Intimidators in the series opener between the teams on Tuesday night at Lake Olmstead Stadium.

Augusta struck first with a pair of runs in the second inning. An error and a walk put two men aboard for Joe Staley, who split the gap in right-center to double home both runners and hand the GreenJackets an early 2-0 advantage. The lead didn’t last long as Kannapolis tied things up in the third. Ross Wilson tripled home a run and then scored when the throw to third hit him and went away from Cuevas’s reach at third to tie the game.

The GreenJackets batted around in the bottom of the third, scoring four times on six singles in the inning and taking a lead they wouldn’t lose. Brett Krill and Michael Mergenthaler brought home runs on RBI singles, while Chuckie Jones and Staley added runs on a pair of groundouts. When the dust cleared, the GreenJackets led 6-2 and would never again trail.

Kannapolis pulled to within two though in the fourth inning – the frame in which they chased Augusta starter Joseph Biagini. Back-to-back hits to open the inning put runners at second and third when a wild pitch scored the Intimidators’ third run. A sacrifice fly from Dusty Harvard made it a 6-4 game and ended Biagini’s night. Biagini fired 3.2 innings and allowed four runs on five hits and a walk while striking out three.

In the fourth, the GreenJackets extended their lead on Cuevas’s solo home run. On Cuevas’s next at-bat in the sixth, he connected again for a two-run shot to become the first GreenJacket to record a multi-homer game this season and push the GreenJackets out to a 9-4 advantage.

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