Smokies avert Biscuits sweep with shutout
KODAK, Tenn. (biscuitsbaseball.com) – The Biscuits lost for the first time in five days falling in the series finale to the Tennessee Smokies 7-0 on Tuesday night at Smokies Stadium in Kodak.
Yonny Chirinos (4-3) was on the mound for the Butter and Blue and the 22-year-old Venezuelan did not have his best stuff allowing a Biscuit season-high 12 hits through 4.2 innings of work. The Smokies got on the board first in the second inning thanks to an RBI-single by Daniel Lockhart, and then tripled that score in the third on a Jason Vosler two-run homer. Chirinos would allow five runs in what was his eighth start of the season.
The Biscuits could only muster six hits, five of them singles, against Tennessee starter Zach Hedges who tossed seven shutout innings allowing just four base knocks while fanning six. The Smokies would add two more runs in the fifth inning on a Vosler sac fly and a Carlos Penalver RBI-single, and two more on another two-run homer by Ian Happ.
The Biscuits still took four out of five over the Smokies and saw Hunter Wood return to the team for the first time since June 23 when he broke his thumb in a no-hit bid away at Biloxi, and will head home for a five-game series against the Mobile BayBears beginning on Thursday at 7:05 PM when Chase Whitely (0-0) will make his third rehab start for the team against Billy Buckner (4-5).
