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SALT LAKE CITY — Despite the recently cool weather in northern Utah, offenses inside Smith’s Ballpark have been heating up lately.
After a game Wednesday that saw the Salt Lake Bees and Memphis Redbirds combine for 17 runs, the two teams combined for 21 runs as Memphis outlasted the Bees, 12-9 on Thursday.
The Redbirds came out hot, with six base hits scoring six runs in the top of the first. Salt Lake responded in the bottom half of the inning, as Tommy Field scored on a wild pitch and Grant Green scored on a Brennan Boesch double, cutting the lead to 6-2.
Memphis and Salt Lake combined for 21 runs in the ball game.
Memphis added two runs in the third inning, while Salt Lake responded with four runs in the fourth, cutting the deficit to 8-6. Luis Jimenez hit his 10th homer of the season and Roberto Lopez also went deep as Salt Lake hit back- to-back homers for the second time this season. John Hester scored later in the inning on a J.B. Shuck sacrifice fly ball, and then Vance Albitz scored on a Grant Green single.
The Redbirds added four runs in the seventh, as Xavier Scruggs and Pete Kozma scored on an Oscar Taveres single, and Tavares and Greg Garcia on a Stephen Piscotty single. Salt Lake added three runs in the bottom of the eight, but it proved to be too little, too late.
Memphis reliever John Gast earned the win for the Redbirds, while Salt Lake starter Anthony Lerew took the loss.
NOTE: Several members of the Utah Jazz organization attended the game with new coach Quin Snyder singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
