Terrin Vavra’s three-run bomb came on a good day for the Tides on the mound, with Danny Coulombe throwing a shutout inning in rehab.
Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 4, Durham Bulls (TBR) 2
The Tides pitching staff had a good day, led by Tucker Davidson’s strong six innings. The lefty held the Bulls to just two runs, one on a solo home run, the other on an RBI groundout. A rehabbing Danny Coulombe pitched a scoreless inning after him, and so did Brooks Kriske and Bruce Zimmermann, in a closer role. Coulombe’s return to Baltimore can’t come soon enough.
The Tides’ offense didn’t do a ton, but behind Davidson, it was enough. Terrin Vavra knocked in three runs with one swing after a Blake Hunt single and Maverick Handley walk. After that, it was only zeroes until a ninth-inning wild pitch scored J.D. Davis, who’d singled two batters prior.
Vavra finished 1-for-4 with those three RBIs. First baseman Garrett Cooper was 1-for-4, and so was Daniel Johnson, Forrest Wall (a double), Davis and Anthony Servideo. Samuel Basallo went 0-for-1 as a pinch hitter.
Double-A: Erie SeaWolves (DET) 5, Bowie Baysox 4
On Sunday, Bowie marked its season finale with a loss in extra innings. Trade deadline acquisition Patrick Reilly got the start, and it went pretty well. He struck out six in four innings, while allowing three runs (two earned). One run came home with two outs on a fielding error by left fielder Douglas Hodo. The others scored after Reilly allowed the first two runners to reach in the fifth, then Bradley Brehmer let the inherited runners score.
The Baysox had gone up 2-0 in the first inning with the top of the lineup behaving very much in character. Enrique Bradfield Jr. singled, then stole second and third (his fourteenth and fifteenth swiped bags for Bowie). Dylan Beavers singled him home before Creed Willems (3-for-5 with 2 RBI) doubled home Beavers.
But Bowie wouldn’t score another run after that until the ninth inning. Frederick Bencosme manufactured it, hitting a ground-rule double, then coming around to score on a wild pitch. But what Bencosme giveth, he would taketh away in extra innings as an infielder.
In the tenth, Creed Willems put Bowie up 4-3 with a RBI single. But in the bottom of the inning, reliever Keagan Gillies gave up a triple to Austin Murr, the first batter he saw, and an unfortunate error by the shortstop Bencosme allowed Murr to score the game-winner.
Bowie ends the second half of the 2024 season with a 30-39 record, fourth in the Eastern League Southwest Division.
Tuesday’s Schedule
- Norfolk vs. Nashville, 6:35. Starter: TBD