Dash edge Hoppers to pull even in Battle of I-40
WINSTON-SALEM -- Right-hander Johan Dominguez allowed no earned runs in six strong innings, and 21-year-old shortstop Lenyn Sosa went 2-for-3 with two RBIs to lead the Winston-Salem Dash to a 3-2 victory over the Greensboro Grasshoppers at Truist Stadium on Wednesday night. The loss snapped Greensboro's four-game winning streak, and
WINSTON-SALEM -- Right-hander Johan Dominguez allowed no earned runs in six strong innings, and 21-year-old shortstop Lenyn Sosa went 2-for-3 with two RBIs to lead the Winston-Salem Dash to a 3-2 victory over the Greensboro Grasshoppers at Truist Stadium on Wednesday night.
The loss snapped Greensboro's four-game winning streak, and the Dash pulled even with the Hoppers at 4-4 in the renewed rivalry called the Battle of I-40.
The Grasshoppers (21-17) have won nine of their last 11 games and remain in second place behind Bowling Green (25-13) in the High-A East's Southern Division standings.
Sosa, rated by MLB Pipeline as the No. 17 prospect in the Chicago White Sox farm system, hit a two-run single on the 11th pitch of his at-bat against Hoppers starter
The Dash scored an insurance run in the sixth inning off reliever
Hoppers first baseman
Greensboro shortstop
Dash starter Dominguez (3-3, 3.18 ERA) allowed one unearned run on three hits in six innings. Brian Glowicki struck out two of the three hitters he faced in the ninth for the save.
The Hoppers had won four in a row in the Battle for I-40 heading into Wednesday's game. The two teams play again Thursday night at Winston-Salem's Truist Stadium.
In his career at the News & Record, journalist Jeff Mills won 10 national and 12 state writing awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, the Society for Features Journalism, and the N.C. Press Association.