Hammer Shines In Bees Debut
The Salt Lake Bees (11-18) snapped their six-game losing skid with a 5-4 victory over the El Paso Chihuahuas (14-15) on Wednesday night thanks to Jack Lopez’s fifth homer in eight games and a stellar Bees debut from JD Hammer. In his first outing with the Angels organization after being
The Salt Lake Bees (11-18) snapped their six-game losing skid with a 5-4 victory over the El Paso Chihuahuas (14-15) on Wednesday night thanks to Jack Lopez’s fifth homer in eight games and a stellar Bees debut from JD Hammer.
In his first outing with the Angels organization after being signed out of the Independent Frontier League, Hammer pitched five innings allowing three hits and a single run. The outing was only his second career start in over 200 outings in affiliated baseball. El Paso had success against Jonathan Holder after Hammer, tallying three runs before Salt Lake got a scoreless final 2.2 innings out of Gerardo Reyes and Reyes Moronta (4-1) to lock down the win.
The Bees jumped out to an early lead in the bottom of the first on a Lopez three-run home run. Salt Lake would get a fourth runner across on a Trey Cabbage single in the fifth inning and scored the eventual winning run in the bottom of the eighth on an RBI from Livan Soto. Both Cabbage and Soto finished the night 2-for-4 with an RBI.
The Bees and Chihuahuas have split the first two games of their series and will face off in game three of the six-game set on Thursday night at Smith’s Ballpark.