Winston-Salem Dash (14–10) vs. Hickory Crawdads (13–11)

Friday, May 6–7 p.m.

Truist Stadium (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

Game 24 Recap

The Salsa dropped their second straight game in their series with Hickory in Thursday night’s 7–4 loss. Winston-Salem starter Andrew Dalquist held it down on the mound for two innings before the Llamas put runs on the board. In the third, Hickory got on base in five straight at-bats, scoring four runs before adding a fifth on a sac fly. Shawn Goosenberg opened up the offense for the Salsa with a home run into left field in the bottom of the inning. Hickory would strike back in the top of the fourth with a single that scored the runner on second, bringing their lead back up to five. The Salsa retaliated in the bottom of the fifth with a run coming from a Duke Ellis single. Winston-Salem had a chance to score more with the bases loaded but Hickory nixed that by bringing in Triston Polley who got Luis Mieses to ground out to end the inning. All was quiet in the game until the bottom of the seventh when the Salsa inched closer to Hickory when a balk brought Terrell Tatum home and sent Ellis to second and Moises Castillo blooped a ball into shallow left and brought Ellis home, making the score 6–4. Spencer Mraz would come in and shut down the offense though, ending Winston-Salem’s comeback attempt. Mraz struck out the final five batters in addition to Hickory scoring another run on a sacrifice fly which would close out the game and give them the 2–1 lead three games into the series.

RELIEVER REVERENCE

Last night, the reliever trio of Luis Amaya, Jesus Valles, and Isaiah Carranza went 6.1 innings and stifled the Crawdads only allowing a combined six hits and seven strikeouts while only letting one earned run score.

MIKEL TO THE 336

Jordan Mikel will be making his second start of the season, and his first start in Winston-Salem this year. Mikel came up from Kannapolis on April 19 and has had four appearances for the Dash so far this season.

GROOVIN’ GOOSENBERG

Shawn Goosenberg is currently on a seven-game hitting streak as well as having an RBI in each of his last five games and two HRs in his last three games. Goosenberg will be batting sixth in the lineup today and playing second base.

DUKE DASHING

In all three games this series, Duke Ellis has stolen a base, bringing his season total to eight stolen bases. In the past five days, Ellis is tied for the second-most stolen bases in the South Atlantic League.

RAMOS REACHING BASE

Last night, Bryan Ramos extended his on-base streak to 19 games with a walk in the fifth inning. Tonight, he’ll look to extend his streak to 20 as he’ll be batting third and playing third base.

First pitch is slated for 7:00 p.m.