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A day after a season-high 12 runs, Adam Hall and his Biloxi Shuckers teammates used a four-run eighth inning to earn an 8-3 win over the Mississippi Braves (36-43, 5-6) at Trustmark Park to clinch a series win, their second of the week. The Shuckers also scored at least seven runs for the fourth time in their last five games and scored at least five for the 17th time in their last 29.
Hall went 2 for 3 from the Plate, he scored 1 Run, and he had 2RBI’s.
The M-Braves scored first when an error three batters in allowed two to score and an RBI single from Keshawn Ogans a batter later made it 3-0 in the first. From there, Shuckers’ starter Shane Smith struck out four and kept the M-Braves at bay, finishing his night after three innings and allowing one earned run.
The Shuckers struck back with a run of their own in the second off knuckleballer David Fletcher, the M-Braves’ starter, with an RBI fielder’s choice from Lamar Sparks, making it 3-1. They tied the game at three in the fourth with an RBI single from Ernesto Martinez Jr. and an RBI from Hall after a pitch with the bases loaded hit him, driving in the tying run.
The teams stayed tied until the eighth when Dylan O’Rae gave Biloxi a 4-3 lead with an RBI single into center. The Shuckers extended the lead to 7-3 with an RBI sacrifice fly from Darrien Miller and a two-RBI single from Eric Brown Jr. later in the inning. The Shuckers added on with a run in the ninth when Casey Martin scored from second on an infield single from Hall, making it 8-3. The five runs against the M-Braves’ bullpen on Friday gave Biloxi 14 runs off the unit in the first two games of the series.
TJ Shook (5-7) earned the win for Biloxi after two scoreless innings in relief while Jake McSteen (1-3) took the loss for the M-Braves. The Shuckers bullpen combined for six shutout innings, including two shutout innings from Shook and Kaleb Bowman. Eric Brown Jr. also tallied his second three-hit game of the season with a 3-for-5 performance and Darrien Miller (1-for-2) reached base four times with a single, two walks and was hit by a pitch.
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