ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä flipped the script to small ball on Friday, but the Dirty Birds stayed in the win column.
A night after scoring all of its runs on home runs, ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä instead tallied once via the long ball, once on an error and once on a sacrifice fly in a 3-0 win over Hagerstown in an Atlantic League series opener at GoMart Ballpark.
The Dirty Birds won for the third time in four outings since the start of the season's second half.
James Nelson went deep with a solo shot in the bottom of the first inning for all the scoring the Dirty Birds needed. Zach Daniels came home on a Flying Boxcars error to add on in the sixth and Alsander Womack’s sac fly plated Demetrius Moorer to close the scoring in the eighth.
That made a winner of Kyle McGowin, who spun six innings of four-hit shutout ball, with three strikeouts and four walks. Jonh Henriquez, Lance Lusk and Ronaldo Alesandro each contributed a shutout inning of relief, and each had two punchouts.
Daniels, Keon Barnum and Benjamin Blackwell each had two hits for ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä (3-1 second half, 33-34 overall).
Dante Leach was 3 for 4 for Hagerstown (2-2 second half, 16-51 overall). Julian Minaya took the loss despite yielding just one earned run in five frames, with six strikeouts and two free passes.
