Biscuits win series over Barons, 6-3
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (biscuitsbaseball.com) – The Biscuits won their fourth-straight game for the sixth time this season, defeating the Birmingham Barons, 6-3, to win the series on Wednesday night at Riverwalk Stadium.
Chih-Wei Hu was on the mound for the Biscuits, trying to win his fourth-straight start, and while the Taiwanese right-hander would pitch a quality start, the 22-year-old would get a no decision allowing three runs on six hits through six innings of work.
White Sox number three prospect Spencer Adams (1-5) was on the hill for the Barons, and after Hu allowed an RBI-triple to Joey DeMichele in the second to open up the scoring, Adams would surrender a game-tying single to Jake Bauers in the fourth. After Birmingham took a 2-1 lead in the fifth on a sac bunt by Marcus Lemon, Granden Goetzman would tie the game at two with an RBI-double in the bottom half of the same inning before a Lemon error scored him from third in the same inning.
The Barons would battle back to tie the game in the sixth on a DeMichele RBI-single off Hu, but in the bottom of the seventh, Monday night’s walk-off hero Braxton Lee stepped up and slapped what would turn out to be the game-winning double down the left field line to make it 4-3 Biscuits. Montgomery would add two more runs in the eighth on a wild pitch and a throwing error, as the three-headed monster of Jeff Ames (6-2), Kyle Winkler, and Jaye Chapman each faced the minimum in innings seven, eight, and nine out of the bullpen.
The Biscuits are still tied with the Chattanooga Lookouts in the Wild Card standings, but are now just two games behind Jackson in the division after the Generals lost their fourth-straight game to the visiting Tennessee Smokies. The Biscuits will try to win five-straight for the first time this season on Thursday night when Brent Honeywell (2-1) tangoes with James Dykstra (4-7) at 7:05 PM.
