Gonzalez Drives In Nine of Tourists Season-High 19 Runs

ASHEVILLE- On any other night Luis Guerrero’s eighth inning feat would headline Asheville’s 19-7 win over Rome. Guerrero hit a pair of two-run Home Runs, in the same inning. His teammate, Cristian Gonzalez, also hit two Home Runs albeit in different innings; however, Gonzalez’s full game performance netted nine RBI. It is the most RBI by a Tourists player in a single game since June 3, 2011 when Corey Dickerson drove in ten.

The Asheville Tourists fell behind the Rome Braves 4-0 entering the bottom of the fourth. Asheville’s starting pitcher, Spencer Arrighetti, did an excellent job navigating his way through trouble during the early innings and kept the Tourists within striking distance.

Asheville plated the game’s next seven runs. Gonzalez hit a two-run single in the fourth; the Tourists scored one in the fifth on a Braves’ error; Gonzalez’s RBI double in the sixth tied the game, and C.J. Stubbs’ three-run Home Run gave the home team a 7-4 lead.

Rome answered with three runs in the top of the seventh inning; however, Gonzalez belted a three-run Home Run in the bottom of the seventh to put Asheville on top 10-7. Guerrero’s first two-run Home Run in the eighth made it 12-7. Deury Carrasco hit an RBI Fielder’s Choice; Gonzalez blasted another three-run shot; Luis Santana doubled in a run, and Guerrero capped the nine-run inning with his second two-run Homer.

The Tourists set a season-high in runs scored with 19, a single-inning high with nine, and matched their biggest come-from-behind win of the season. Juan Pablo Lopez earned the win with four innings pitched out of the bullpen and Danny Cody worked a scoreless ninth to seal it.

Gonzalez finished with four hits. Santana and Guerrero each had three. Michael Sandle and Stubbs both ended the game with two base hits.

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