the first pitch in Salem’s game last Wednesday.
PHOTO BY JOHN WACHER
The Salem Red Sox will be in Hickory, NC this week for a six game series with the Hickory Crawdads, an affiliate of the Texas Rangers. Hickory is off to an 8-8 start in Carolina League play while the Red Sox are 6-10 after going 1-5 in their six game homestand with the Lynchburg Hillcats. Salem opened the series in Hickory with a 12-6 win Tuesday night.
The first two games of the Lynchburg series in Salem were day games and high scoring affairs. After dropping the series opener 10-8 the Sox played an 11 am game last Wednesday and pulled out a 9-7 win. Salem had 10 hits in the game as Antonio Anderson, Kleyver Salazar and Frederik Jimenez had two each. Anderson, Jimenez and Starlyn Nunez scored two runs apiece and Franklin Arias and Nunez each drove in two runs.
Matt McShane picked up the win with three innings of one-hit, scoreless relief while striking out four. McShane entered in the sixth inning and settled things down with the Sox trailing 7-5. Salem then scored three in the seventh and an insurance run in the eighth.
The Hillcats then took the last four games of the series by scores of 4-1, 5-2, 13-4 and 5-2 on Sunday afternoon to drop Salem into fifth place in the Carolina League’s six team North Division. The Sox will be back home next Tuesday to open a six game series with Fredricksburg, a farm team of the Washington Nationals.
