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With a season-high 12 runs and a franchise-record-tying five-hit night from Lamar Sparks, Adam Hall, and his Biloxi Shuckers teammates earned a blowout victory over the Mississippi Braves by a 12-2 score at Trustmark Park.
Hall returned to the line-up.
The M-Braves struck first in the fourth with an RBI single from Yolbert Sanchez to take a 1-0 lead. The run was the only run allowed by Shuckers’ starter Logan Henderson, who struck out five and did not issue a walk over four innings in his fifth Double-A start. Through five Double-A starts, Henderson owns a 1.75 ERA with 34 strikeouts to just four walks in 25.2 innings.
After five shutout innings from M-Braves’ starter Luis De Avila, the Shuckers tied the game in the sixth with an RBI single from Brock Wilken. They took a 3-1 lead two batters later with a two-RBI single from Eric Brown Jr. Biloxi then extended the lead in the seventh with an RBI triple from Lamar Sparks, two bases-loaded walks and an error, making it 7-3.
In the bottom of the seventh, the M-Braves struck back with an RBI single from Bryson Horne to make it 7-2. Biloxi, however, used an RBI single from Carlos Rodriguez and a two-RBI double from Brock Wilken to extend the lead to 10-2. In the ninth, Lamar Sparks’ franchise-record-tying fifth hit of the night, an RBI single, extended the lead to 11-2 before an RBI fielder’s choice from Dylan O’Rae gave Biloxi a season-high 12 runs. Nick Merkel (4-4) earned the win after 2.2 relief innings while Luis De Avila (1-9) took the loss for the M-Braves.
Brock Wilken recorded the Shuckers’ only other multi-hit performance while Eric Brown Jr. recorded a multi-RBI night.
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