COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies) – Dan Rizzie picked up his fourth multi-hit game on a soggy Sunday evening at Spirit Communications Park. Rizzie finished with two singles and has at least one hit in five of his previous seven contests. The Fireflies fell to the Intimidators, 3-0. Adam Atkins and Matt Blackham were very sharp for Columbia (8-15, 48-43) out of the bullpen. The tandem threw…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies) – Andres Gimenez scored a run and drove in a run in the series opener against Kannapolis but the Fireflies fell, 7-2. Gimenez also stole a base, his eighth of the season. After a two hour and five minute rain delay, Saturday’s game began at 9:10 p.m. Kannapolis (9-14, 48-43) turned the first and third frames into big offensive innings. The visitors scored…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies) – Columbia’s bullpen was flawless on Friday night at Spirit Communications Park. Joe Zanghi and Matt Pobereyko tossed a combined four scoreless innings. The Fireflies dropped the series finale to the Grasshoppers, 6-2. These two relievers retired the final 12 Greensboro (10-10, 47-41) hitters in this game. Zanghi pitched the sixth and the seventh innings. The 22-year-old…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies) – Dash Winningham plated the winning run on Thursday in the bottom of the ninth and the Fireflies defeated the Grasshoppers, 2-1. It was the fifth walk-off win of the season for the Fireflies. Columbia (8-12, 48-40) had just tied the game in the bottom of the eighth and saved the most pertinent drama for the final…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies PR) – A day after his 20th birthday, Luis Carpio reached base four times on Wednesday night at Spirit Communications Park. Carpio was also responsible for the club’s lone RBI in the 4-1 loss to the Grasshoppers. The Venezuelan native was hit by pitch with the bases loaded in the seventh inning. Harol Gonzalez (L, 5-7) lasted…
CHARLESTON, SC (Fireflies) – Ian Strom collected three hits and stole three bases on Sunday, but Columbia lost a tightly-contested game to Charleston, 3-2. It was Strom’s second career three-hit game. The outfielder also became the first Firefly in franchise history to swipe three bags in a game. Sunday’s game began similarly to the night before. Charleston (12-5, 46-41) opened…
CHARLESTON, SC (Fireflies PR) – Jay Jabs did a little bit of everything on Saturday night. The outfielder tallied a pair of hits, scored a run, drove another in, but his team fell to the RiverDogs, 13-2. Jabs has reached base safely in 20 of his last 21 games. The lopsided affair began in Columbia’s (6-10, 46-38) favor at Joe Riley Park. The home…
CHARLESTON, SC (Fireflies) – Ian Strom slashed a pair of hits on Friday, but Columbia dropped the series opener to Charleston, 7-1. The Hopedale, Massachusetts, product accomplished the feat in just his fifth game as a Firefly. After two innings of play, it looked as if we were bound to see another pitcher’s duel. Both Nick Green (W, 5-6) and…
AUGUSTA, GA (Fireflies) – Brandon Brosher broke a 1-1 tie with a solo homer in extras, which proved to be the difference Thursday night at Lake Olmstead Stadium. The Fireflies outlasted the GreenJackets 2-1 in 10 innings. Brosher finished with his first three-hit game of the season. This was not the first time Brosher did something like this. The 22-year-old cracked a 7-7…
AUGUSTA, GA (Fireflies) – Columbia dropped both its games to Augusta on Wednesday night, but centerfielder Jacob Zanon made a splash at Lake Olmstead Stadium. The 22-year-old finished with a pair of hits in the second game and plated a run in Tuesday’s suspended game, which was completed today. The GreenJackets held the offensive advantage early and often during game two. The home team scored three…
