By WRBL Staff
Columbus Catfish Media Relations
Charleston, SC - Columbus starter Jeremy Hall fired eight shutout innings, Reid Fronk drove home three runs and the Catfish limited Charleston’s offense to only four hits in winning 6-1 in South Atlantic League action Wednesday night in front of 4,504 fans at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park.Columbus Catfish Media Relations
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Stumble It!With the victory, Columbus stays perfect in the season’s second half at 5-0 (32-43 overall) while the RiverDogs slip to 1-4 after the All-Star break (46-29 overall). The Catfish are 3-0 against Charleston since last Thursday.
Hall (2-1) was brilliant in defeating Charleston for the second time in less than one week. He surrendered three hits while striking out eight RiverDogs and walking only one. Reliever Kevin Boggan allowed the lone run on one hit in the ninth inning.
Charleston was one strike away from being shutout when Bradley Suttle belted a solo home run over the right field fence. The round-tripper was his fifth of the year.
The Catfish opened the game’s scoring in the fourth inning when they received back-to-back walks from Charleston starter Jairo Heredia (2-2). Both runners scored on a two-out, two-run double by Fronk to give the visitors a 2-0 lead.
Columbus pushed three more runs across in the sixth to extend their lead to 5-0. With two on and one out, Henry Wrigley greeted RiverDogs reliever Gabe Media with a two-run triple to left, and Wrigley scored when left fielder Dave Williams lost Ian Paxton’s fly ball in left field for a gift double.
The Catfish added their sixth run in the eighth on a solo home run to left center by Fronk, his eighth of the season, which came on a 2-1 count off Medina. Fronk is now 6-for-11 with two homers and seven RBI in the three games against the RiverDogs this half.
Heredia pitched 5.2 frames and surrendered four runs on five hits while striking out seven and walking three. Medina threw 2.2 innings and allowed a pair of runs on three hits while Jonathan Ortiz threw a scoreless ninth with three strikeouts.
Fronk paced the Catfish with two of their eight hits while Suttle, Brandon Laird, Carmen Angelini and Williams each recorded one hit for Charleston.
Thursday, there will be a doubleheader with the first game a completion of the June 21 contest at Columbus that was interrupted by rain with the RiverDogs ahead, 5-0, in the bottom of the second inning.
Charleston manager Torre Tyson has decided that reliever Ryan Zink (0-1, 2.79 ERA) will resume the game for the RiverDogs while the Catfish will go with lefty Glenn Gibson (4-8, 6.89 ERA). In the nightcap, the RiverDogs will throw righty Lance Pendleton (6-2, 2.45 ERA) while Columbus will go with righty Jesse Darcy (3-0, 2.07 ERA).
