(August 18, 2023 – High Point, NC): The York Revolution’s frustrating road trip continued with a 7-3 loss to the High Point Rockers on Friday night at Truist Point. York is now 1-6 on the three-stop jaunt with two games remaining, falling to 18-17 in the second half, 2.5 games out of first place.
High Point plated the game’s first run as D.J. Burt came home on a wild pitch in the bottom of the first inning.
The Revs answered in the second as Nellie Rodriguez lined a solo homer to left, his 22nd of the year and sixth in his last nine games. It was also the 73rd home run of his Revs career, one shy of tying Melky Mesa for second-most in franchise history.
Emmanuel Tapia crushed a solo homer to right in the bottom of the second, putting High Point back ahead by a 2-1 score.
Rockers starter Jheyson Manzueta set down nine consecutive hitters after Rodriguez’ homer until Drew Mendoza lined the eighth pitch of his at-bat to left center for a leadoff triple to start the fifth. Two batters later, Richard Urena skied a towering two-run homer inside the right field foul pole, lifting the Revs in front, 3-2 on his 13th of the year.
Revs lefty Nick Raquet was sharp through the third and fourth innings, but a balk called on a second disengagement advanced Ryan Grotjohn to second base after a leadoff single in the fifth. After moving to third on a ground out, he scored on Ben Aklinski’s two-out single to center, tying the game at 3-3. It was the first of four consecutive innings with a run for the Rockers who plated five unanswered runs to finish the game.
Another two-out RBI single, this time by Grotjohn in the sixth, ended the night for Raquet (11-7) after 114 pitches with the Rockers going in front 4-3.
Beau Taylor made it three consecutive innings with a two-out RBI single on a check swing bloop along the right field line in the seventh.
High Point added two more in the eighth on a fielder’s choice grounder off the bat of Shed Long Jr. and a sac fly from Burt.
The Rockers bullpen was nearly perfect, combining to limit the Revs to one hit over the final four innings while retiring each of the last 11 hitters of the game, eight of which came on strikeouts.
The Revs struck out 14 times, one night after a season-high 15 strikeouts. It marked their fourth consecutive game with at least 12 punch outs. They have been limited to just 18 runs in seven games on the road trip, batting just .203 as a team.
York will look to get things turned around on Saturday at 6:35 p.m. as RHP J.T. Hintzen (7-6, 5.24) faces High Point righty Mickey Jannis (10-4, 3.76). Revs fans can catch the action live on SportsRadio 98.9 FM & 1350 WOYK, 989woyk.com, The New WOYK app, and FloBaseball.TV beginning at 6:15 p.m. with Darrell Henry on the call.
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