The minor league regular season wrapped up for the Tides with some bad fielding and even worse pitching.
Triple-A: Nashville Sounds (MIL) 12, Norfolk Tides 3
This game entered the fourth inning a 0-0 tie, then Norfolk proceeded to allow ten runs in the fourth and fifth combined. Ouch. Lefty Tucker Davidson made his mistakes, but he got three ground balls that should have ended the inning. They didn’t, so instead five runs came home, just one earned, though Davidson did walk three, which isn’t great. Nolan Hoffman’s fifth inning was dreadful, and no errors were required: the mind-numbing sequence was single, homer, single, single, homer.
The rest of the relievers were better. Levi Stoudt pitched 1.2 innings and allowed one solo homer. Colin Selby tossed a brilliant seventh inning, striking out the side. Nick Vespi allowed a pair of doubles, a single and a walk. Sigh. And Corbin Martin pitched a scoreless ninth in what, in football, we’d call “garbage time.”
The Tides had nine hits in total, including one by the rehabbing Ryan Mountcastle. First baseman Garrett Cooper made up for his butchery in the field with two doubles, driving in two runs in the eighth, to go with a solo homer by Anthony Servideo.