Biscuits hold off Smokies
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Contributed Jake McGee tossed 5.2 scoreless innings, and the Biscuits (58-48) used timely insurance runs to stave off a late Tennessee (64-43) push, downing the Smokies, 3-2, Tuesday at Riverwalk. The Biscuits plated a run in the first inning on a Tennessee error, with Emeel Salem scoring after he and Rashad Eldridge began the frame with back-to-back singles. It stayed 1-0 Biscuits until the sixth, when Drew Anderson doubled home Nevin Ashley with two outs to make it 2-0. Tennessee got an RBI-double from Nate Samson in the top of the seventh to cut the Biscuits’ lead in half. Salem began the bottom of the seventh with a triple and scored on an Eldridge single before a Matt Spencer two-out RBI-single in the eighth cut it to 3-2 and again proved the importance of the insurance runs. Dane De La Rosa (2) worked a perfect ninth to grab the save. McGee (3-7) struck out only three, but allowed just two hits to grab his first win since June 13th. The Smokies scored both runs off reliever Josh Satow. Tennessee starter Chris Rusin (0-1) suffered a tough loss in his double-A debut, giving up one run on four hits over five innings. Salem and Eldridge both recorded two hits at the top of the order to lead the Biscuits. The Biscuits, sitting 2.5 games behind Mobile in the South, have now won three of four, and are 15-4 in one-run games at home this season. Alex Torres will take the mound tomorrow for the Biscuits against Tennessee Craig Muschko at 7:05. |
