ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — After winning the series’ first three games, Asheville gave up its third loss in a row to close the series on Sunday against the Winston-Salem Dash in a 10-6 finish at McCormick Field.

Each time the Tourists (25-32) pulled their way back into the ballgame, the Dash (21-36) immediately had an answer.

In the sixth, Asheville scored three to level the run totals. Winston-Salem answered with one run in each of the next two innings. During a dramatic ninth frame, Chase Jaworsky and Will Bush homered to tie the game at five.

Entering the 10th inning, the fifth extra innings game this year for Asheville, Railin Perez (L, 4-1) surrendered five runs on three walks and one hit, and the doors were blown open.

Asheville slips in rainy loss Saturday

The Asheville Tourists lost to the Winston-Salem Dash 8-3 on Saturday night at McCormick Field in a game that featured rain and unplayable field conditions.

It was all Tourists (25-31) through the first two innings. They scored all their runs on the Dash’s (20-36) starter, highlighted by Lucas Spence’s solo homer and RBI double.

Tides shifted from that point on. Winston-Salem scored eight unanswered runs, beginning with two in the third frame and one in the fourth to knot the score before its big break.

Yeriel Santos (L, 0-6) came out of the pen as the third arm of the night for Asheville in the sixth inning, and surrendered four baserunners in a row, leading to as many runs touching home. The dagger was a three-run blast that snuck over the 373 feet sign to dead center by a baseball’s length.

Snot Otters’ night ends early Friday because of rain

A friendly environment for an actual Snot Otter, Mother Nature saw it as good to give some rain and humidity to McCormick Field on Friday night, as the Asheville baseball team took the field, not as the Tourists, but as the Snot Otters. The contest ended after six innings in an 8-1 complete game loss against the Winston-Salem Dash because of rough field conditions from rain.

The only number that was higher than the Dash’s (19-36) run and hit totals was the pounds of drying agent sprinkled on the infield.

Rain started when the Snot Otters (25-30) fell behind in the fourth inning after a solo home run. A light drizzle persisted through the five-run Dash fifth frame. Asheville’s only run came in the home half of the inning on an Alejandro Nunez RBI walk.

Although it stopped raining while the game was put on delay, the field was holding too much water. More drying agent was laid down, but more rain ended any plans of continuing.
It was a tale of two halves for Bryce Mayer (L, 1-2) tonight. He opened play retiring the first nine men he faced while racking up five strikeouts. But, the righty failed to make it out of the fifth as the wheels came off the bus, allowing five of the eight total runs.

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